Private enterprise will increase the number of available allotment plots, but they will cost much more than their council subsidised cousins
… Private allotment company gets mixed welcome The Ecologist | 5th January 2010 News Allotments Gardening Food And Farming … will increase the number of available allotment plots, but they will cost much more …
Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby practised by old geezers in wellies and donkey jackets. It’s an insurance policy against an uncertain future, as Paul Kingsnorth has found out for himself over the last three years.
… 1st November 2005 News Gardening Organic Food AllotmentAllotments Green Lifestyle Green Living Food … Farming Dig-for-victory_MAIN.jpg Having an allotment is no longer a tiresome hobby …
Villages in Hasdeo Aranya of Chhattisgarh, India, oppose illegal land acquisition and the allotment of coal blocks without consent.
… oppose illegal land acquisition and the allotment of coal blocks without consent. The … clearances to the Morga II coal block allotment and strongly objected to any further … forest regions of the state. The auction/allotment of coal blocks is to be done by the …
City workers and allotment farmers needed to reverse dwindling farm workforce
… | 9th April 2010 News Food And Farming allotment.jpg City workers and allotment farmers needed to reverse dwindling … likely to come from city dwellers and hobby allotment farmers who could gradually move on …
Already hit by rows over radioactive waste and airport expansion, the London 2012 Olympic Games are accused of degrading green land vital to local communities and wildlife. Tom Antebi reports
… boroughs in general, are awash with marshes, allotments, meadows, floodplains, nature … development is the Manor Garden Society (MGS) allotments. The allotment collective found themselves in the …
While households and small feel the brunt of California's drought, it's business as usual for agribusiness, writes Will Parrish. And despite the 'first user' principle that determines water rights, the state's indigenous tribes and the wild salmon on which they depend, have been left high and dry. The Public Trust Doctrine could change that - but only if the people demand it.
… have still received close to their full allotments. The real problem - massive … water rights holders have received their full allotments in all but five of the 28 years … Contractors have received nearly their full allotment of water. And so have the Sacramento …
A year ago today, Europe-wide protests defeated an EU regulation that would have outlawed many seed saving activities, writes Ben Raskin. Now growers are taking matters into their own hands, saving and developing open-pollinated seeds - and campaigning for a seed regulation that supports them, not the monopolist seed corporations.
… for some really good seed. Highlights from my allotment were parsley (third generation seed) … So whether you are a professional grower, allotment holder or home gardener, think about …
Imagine if a ‘prosperous’ society was one collectively working towards a happy, hopeful, just vision – and not increased GDP.
… reduce the burden on planet and society. My allotment does this too. They contribute to … But Clusters and Repair Cafés – and even my allotment – show me that there are other ways …
Associate Editor of Resurgence & Ecologist, Susan Clark, reflects on the joys of reading the entries for the 2013 Nature Competition, and the difficulties met by the judging panel in deciding on a winner.
… challenging landscape. Highly Commended: Allotment by Peter Jewel Peter has won a …
You may see your garden as a spare room or a place to be in touch with nature, but changes to planning rules mean it is likely to attract higher council tax if it hasn’t already been snapped up by a developer. Jack Shamash reports
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Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment.
The Ecologist's 'Real Green Budget' Mark Anslow | 23rd March 2007 News Budget Gordon Brown Lets Economics Spending Incentives Taxation Tax Green UK Economics Finance Carbon Dioxide Global Warming …
The second stage of the EU's much-criticised Emissions Trading System (ETS) will fail to deliver any significant cuts in Europe's carbon dioxide emissions, campaign group WWF said yesterday.
Emissions Trading won't make a difference, says WWF 14th June 2007 News Emissions Trading Carbon Dioxide EU ETS ETS Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Rationing Climate Change Politics And …
In the past decade, the sales pitch of the biotech companies has shifted with the climate of public opinion. Public scepticism has remained high, but politicians seem to have bought enthusiastically into the GM ‘solution’. In many ways this encapsulates where science has gone wrong – by inventing technologies without first deciding what problems need addressing. If GM crops are the answer, what exactly is the problem?
Programmes to improve the quality of green space throughout social housing are taking hold in the UK, with Hackney’s Clapton Park providing a prime example of how far a little green can go....
… varieties, and micro veg-patch allotments dotted in between flat buildings, …
Local campaigners fearful of water shortages and industrial pollution have forced state authorities to cancel an unpopular plan to allocate land for a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Tamil Nadu, India.
Campaigners defeat Coca-Cola plant in South India The Ecologist | 21st April 2015 News India Water Pollution Corporations coca-cola-india-cut.jpg Local campaigners fearful of water shortages and …
We know the outcome of Defra's latest 'public consultation' on killing badgers long before the results have even been analysed, writes Lesley Docksey. Environment secretary Andrea Leadsom has already promised farmers to extend the cull 'even further' - although it brings no proven benefits. Welcome to the new world of 'alternative facts' that's driving UK government policy.
Putting the 'con' into consultation and the 'fiction' into science: England's badger cull Lesley Docksey | 27th February 2017 News Badgers UK England Politics Health Science Natural World Farming …
World Water Week 2017 this month brought together experts and decision makers to debate solutions to a growing global clean water crisis. DR MARK FLETCHER told the conference that the circular economy - and systems thinking - must be part of the solution
… Drought Flood Crisis Sustainable Systems allotment-2520218_960_720.jpg World Water Week …
The US National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed to allow the Makah Tribe to resume hunting gray whales after seventeen years of regulatory gridlock.
The Makah whaling conflict Les Beldo | 24th April 2019 News Whaling Public Opinion Thought Leaders gray_whale_merrill_gosho_noaa2_crop.jpg The US National Marine Fisheries Service has proposed to …
Taiji is a Japanese coastal town that has become infamous for its practice of drive hunting. This deeply unethical activity results in the mass slaughter of thousands of cetaceans. Sea Shepherd 'Cove Guardians' report on the latest from the killing shores.
Operation Infinite Patience Scot Cator Konrad Szymanski | 27th February 2013 News taiji-dolphin-hunt_10277_600x450.jpg Dolphins are piled in a boat near Taiji, Japan, in 2003. The hunt is featured in …