You don't need a garden to grow your own fruit and veg. If you're a budding horticulturalist with no space to swing a trowel, here are some creative - and sometimes bizarre - ideas from around the world
How to grow food in strange places - by the experts Helen Babbs | 29th September 2010 Activism Food And Farming Farming Urban Agriculture Self-sufficiency How To Make A Difference …
Petrol prices are on the rise, so is youth unemployment. So why aren't more people thumbing it? Adam Weymouth travels through the generational gap to find out
Hitchhiking: the greenest form of transport that nobody uses? Adam Weymouth | 6th September 2011 Activism Society Culture Change Hitchhiking Alternative Transport Biodiesel 3img_1885.jpg Thumbs up …
It's not just that the government does not seem to care about the millions of Britons that have died prematurely from traffic pollution, writes Donnachadh McCarthy. It's that every policy intervention they have made is making the problem worse! Join us this Saturday to demand a sane transport policy that will make our roads safe for people, and our air fit to breathe.
Stop the UK Treasury's transport carnage! Donnachadh McCarthy | 10th February 2017 Activism Pollution Transport Health Politics treasury protest-poster-cut.jpg It's not just that the government does …
A new film, Raising Resistance, gives a telling account of how Paraguay's small farmers are suffering social and environmental ills from the country's meteoric rise in soya farming
Paraguay's small farmers defend livelihoods against industrial soya production Grace Philip | 8th May 2012 Activism Food And Farming Raising Resistance Paraguay Soy Soy Industry Pesticides Campesinos …
Global grassroots movement, 350.org is gathering support to persuade world leaders to stop subsidising fossil fuels at the Rio Earth Summit
TAKE ACTION to help end government subsidies for dirty energy Grace Philip | 25th May 2012 Activism Climate Change Energy Fossil Fuels Carbon Emissions 350.org Renewable Energy How To Make A …
Phillip Manbridge, CEO of Care for the Wild International, introduces the 'No Photos, Please!' campaign, which forces us to look beyond the adorable faces of captive animals we encounter abroad and ask - what is the real story here?
Smile - You've Just Killed My Mum Philip Mansbridge | 8th November 2013 Activism Natural World Pet Trade Tourism …
Golf club shaped urinal anyone? Digital fridge magnet? Nominate your contenders for Britain's most useless consumer product before 22nd February...
The Landfill Prize Top Ten John Naish | 16th February 2010 Activism Waste And Recycling Landfill Consumerism Enoughism John Naish Landfill Prize landfill-image.jpg Golf club shaped urinal anyone? …
What do the Australian Environment Foundation, the Renewable Energy Foundation and the Global Warming Policy Foundation have in common? They are all fiercely anti-environment, writes William Laurance - and we must beware their 'eco-doublespeak'.
Beware environmental wolves in sheep's clothing! William Laurance | 9th June 2014 Activism Climate Change Forests Politics Campaigning Renewables Energy UK Australia Media sheep-wolf-teeth-cut.jpg …
Global Cool is the green lifestyle organisation that uses celebrities and mainstream culture to market low-carbon living. Its director Caroline Fiennes talks to the Ecologist
Campaign Hero: Caroline Fiennes of Global Cool Matilda Lee | 11th January 2011 Activism Society Climate Change Global Cool Caroline Fiennes Green Living Jo Wood 1cf-in-woollie-jumper.jpg Global Cool …
Elevated urban highways epitomise the dark side of vehicular mobility - polluting, visually brutal, noisy, and contributing to local 'heat islands', writes Marco Picardi. So let's re-engineer them for people and create imaginative urban spaces we can all enjoy!
… motorways. Bermondsey-based architects Bell Philips called for all of central London's …
Campaigners for the labeling of GMOs in food are winning their battle against corporate America, writes Ralph Nader. No wonder the corporations are fighting back with lawsuits and scare stories ... they're on the back foot, and they know it.
GMOs: the 'right to know' campaign is winning Ralph Nader | 30th June 2014 Activism USA GMOs Food Corporations Society Law gmo-right2know-cut.jpg Campaigners for the labeling of GMOs in food are …