Thirty years ago Edward Goldsmith’s article ‘Can we control pollution?’ wondered what happens to pollution once we have ‘disposed’ of it
… The Ecologist December 1979: Can we control pollution? Edward Goldsmith | 19th December … Edward Goldsmith’s article ‘Can we control pollution?’ wondered what happens to pollution once we have ‘disposed’ of it Are we …
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business
… pork production is a major source of air pollution and probably the largest cause of water pollution in the US. Smithfield and its fellow … end up in their waste. Industrial-style pollution. A pig produces 10 times as much …
With human beings about to become a predominantly urban species, Dan Box asks whether cities can ever be sustainable.
… in the resources they consume and the pollution they create. Cities rely on their … outskirts of London will mean an increase in pollution created both in and by the capital. … and unloading means less idling and air pollution. While the stations provide a …
Measure for measure, GDP is the world’s hidden accounting scandal, the one that neither governments nor media will touch. Jonathan Rowe asks why we worship such a false idol
… GDP is of great comfort. It turns obesity and pollution into economic advance, and the … a year. • GDP also thrives on noise pollution – sound-proofing insulation for an …
Expensive, polluting, unnatural and booming.
Jeremy Smith investigates the ‘death-care industry’
Death & the Salesmen Jeremy Smith | 1st December 2003 News Death Funerals Landfills Death-care Industry Companies Society Expensive, polluting, unnatural and booming. Jeremy Smith investigates the …
In the penultimate extract from Fatal Harvest’s demolition of agribusiness disinformation, The Ecologist assesses the claim that biotechnology will solve industrial agriculture’s ills.
… as it does nothing to alleviate the chemical pollution crisis, biotech food brings its own very different pollution hazard: biological and genetic pollution. In 2000, researchers at Purdue …
Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
… programme management; • less air and water pollution and traffic congestion; • less need …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… Development Natural World Food And Farming Pollution Archive_14.jpg Ros Coward reports … for the British and then generate tonnes of pollution getting them over as fast as …
Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse. Earth’s survival depends on a completely new way of thinking. By Kirkpatrick Sale
… overpopulation, air and water and soil pollution, toxic waste, nuclear energy, … on energy use, global warming and atmospheric pollution. I mean, sure, go ahead and live a …
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports.
… Holly Wren | 1st April 2003 News Community Pollution Activism Mexico Urban Lan Boycotts …
Navy vs the Whales. They have the most mysterious and beautiful songs in the natural world. But now they are dying, drowned out by the deafening roar of Western navies’ new sonar devices.
… UK US Animal Rights Species Extinction Pollution Science And Technology …
Does it annoy you that the earth is being destroyed to benefit a tiny minority? Enough to do something about it? Derrick Jensen invites you to join him on the barricades
Your country needs you Derrick Jensen | 1st June 2003 Other Cancun Sustainability Economic System Natural R Campaigns Climate Change Politics And Economics Society Archive_3.jpg Does it annoy you …
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital
… Hence, the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution’s chair Sir Tom Blundell has called …
For all its obsession with international terrorism, Washington fails to see how the phenomenon is driven by its own model of globalisation – a model that is itself uniquely vulnerable to terrorist attacks. Fritjof Capra on security and sustainability
Terrorism and globalisation Fritjof Capra | 1st May 2003 News Terrorism Globalization Security Sustainability War Military US Politics Globalisation September 11 911 Terrorists US War Religion …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
Bottled Water The Ecologist | 1st February 2003 News Water Nestle Perrier Danone Tap Water International Trade Water Conservation Clean Water Fresh Water Water Supplies Water Sources Plastics …
Free trade. So benign sounding a phrase. A concept whose principles no reasonable person would challenge. Trouble is, free trade as we know it – free trade as it is pushed by those who will mass at Cancun, Mexico, in September – is far from free. Think about it. If it truly was free, would they put sanctions on those who don’t want to participate and use police to violently put down protests by those who oppose it? Free trade is really just a euphemism, like ‘peacekeeping’ or ‘forest management’, that hides a far uglier, more brutal reality. Free trade is a brand – Free Trade™, which sells a repackaged product no one in their right minds would buy if they knew what it really was.
… helps make sense of official apathy over the pollution of (free) water sources. You just …
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests
Seeds of Hope Jake Bowers | 1st May 2003 News Hemp Agriculture Native Sovereignty Organic Agriculture Indigenous Peoples Agribusiness Food And Farming Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for …