Protecting rainforests is now almost as lucrative as cutting them down. Mark Anslow reports on a commodities-centred approach to stopping deforestation
… of greenhouse behemoths China and the US. Its land mass is just a fifth the size of its new … which, with state consent, have built up vast land banks, cashing in on land that may not even be their own. He points …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must farm and eat differently
… former Ecologist editor Simon Fairlie in The Land journal suggests that we can, but only if … content), scientists at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research believe that … and chemically to hold water on the land. Organic management also uses crop …
Mark Anslow considers whether new generation hydroponics can feed the world's cities
… create high-tech allotments, at a time when land in cities is at a premium.’ On paper, … intensive, as well as requiring 20 times less land and 10 times less water, than … that hydroponics is a solution to our land crisis. The answer, he suggests, could be …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must eat and farm differently
… former Ecologist editor Simon Fairlie in The Land journal suggests that we can, but only if … content), scientists at the Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research believe that … and chemically to hold water on the land. Organic management also uses crop …
We can all agree on what the problem is, it’s settling on a solution that’s the difficult part. Mark Anslow explores the complicated world of deforestation
… say this could simply end up rewarding large landowners and born-again logging companies. … ecosystems. There are problems, however. Land rights are often poorly established, … making it difficult to know whose land is whose, and a number of key nations …
It has taken just one year for the land-based biofuels (agrofuels) bubble to inflate and burst. In February 2007, the Ecologist was almost alone in pointing out that growing energy crops for car fuel was ecological nonsense; now the tide of academic studies showing that agrofuels are neither energy - nor carbon-efficient seems unstoppable.
… It has taken just one year for the land-based biofuels (agrofuels) bubble to … sources and include Aquaflow – a New Zealand-based initiative that aims to produce … Krassen Dimitrov of the University of Queensland in Australia, an expert in biochemistry …
It's one of the most encouraging reports of the year, and the mainstream media totally ignored it. Think what you like about town hall politics: there's power in them there councils
… Statutory Allotment Status on suitable land to turn it into allotments after a …
Soaring fuel prices and stratospheric carbon emissions bode ill for the aviation industry. Is flying beyond redemption? Mark Anslow tries some blue-sky thinking
… plants would require an area of agricultural land some 436,011km², or just shy of the size …
The argument for desalination plants isn't won yet, reports Mark Anslow
… of Saline Water. Today, the technology’s heartland is the Arabian Gulf, where 50 percent of … sustainable water, marine environment and land-use strategies have been tried to maintain the natural functioning of landscapes to provide water.’ Mark Anslow is …
The Ecologist harnessed the power of several luminaries from the renewables world to find out why a wholly renewable future seems no closer than before.
… Germany] doesn’t get owned by the guy whose land it’s on, or the local community,’ he …