BP is in trouble. Big trouble. But others are to blame for the ongoing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, and the US Mineral Management Service is at the top of the list...
MMS - the three initials behind the BP Deepwater Horizon oil disaster Phil England | 17th May 2010 Comment Energy Natural World Bp Politics And Economics mmsdrip.gif BP is in trouble. Big trouble. …
We were sitting chatting outside our home when two small planes flew over very low. We went down to our fields to see what was happening. My husband said, “Look, they’re dropping poison on our land.”
Colombia's killing fields - The first bio-war of the 21st century Sue Branford Hugh O’Shaughnessy | 1st March 2006 News Colombia Bio-war Pesticides US Crops Roundup Coco Peasants Pests And Pesticides …
A new documentary, An Ecology of Mind, directed by Nora Bateson, celebrates her father Gregory - anthropologist, philosopher, ecologist and systems theorist
… people from the beginning, interested in biology, poetry, zoology, religion. His … patterns and the means of communication in biology. They also had a lot of William Blake …
In the past 50 years the global economy has grown by over 500 per cent... the richest fifth of the world now earn 86 per cent of global income… the poorest fifth earn just 1.3 per cent… life expectancy in the world’s most ‘developed’ countries is 79 years… in the least ‘developed’ it is still just 42… we consume 22 million tonnes of oil every day… chop down 1 per cent of the world’s forests every year… and have killed 90 per cent of the world’s big fish. Has the time come to give up on globalisation?
Globalisation use it or lose it? George Helena | 1st September 2004 Comment Global Economy Globalisation Localisation Globalisation Politics And Economics Society Archive_79.jpg In the past 50 years …
The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability
Erik Assadourian: our society needs some serious cultural engineering Matilda Lee | 10th March 2010 Comment Society Politics And Economics Culture Change Worldwatch Avatar New Economics Foundation B …
How much would you have to be paid for each bullet loaded into a gun in a game of Russian Roulette? A runner-up in the Ecologist/nef essay competition...
… take into account these factors, as well as biology, history and money, and hence this …
Once again a Shia Ayatolla is spoiling America’s plans
Another Ayatollah Eric S Margolis | 1st June 2004 Comment Government US Iraq Baghdad Pentagon Saddam US Politics And Economics Another-ayatollah_MAIN.jpg Once again a Shia Ayatolla is spoiling …
Defra's attempt to put a price tag on nature with its National Ecosystem Assessment may reinforce the dangerous conceit that our own place in ecosystems is more important than any other, argues Dr Kate Rawles
Nature isn't a commodity that should be bought, sold and traded Dr Kate Rawles | 1st May 2011 Comment TEEB Biodiversity Ecosystem Nature Politics And Economics Wildlife coralreefs.jpg Defra's attempt …
A tale of Indians and airboats, giant alligators and one of the world’s greatest ecosystems hanging in the balance.
River of grass James Frankham | 1st March 2006 News Water Ecosystem American Indians Native Americans White Man Industrial Campaigns Natural World Politics And Economics Society investigates.jpg A …
The Ecologist investigates allegations a coal power project in India, approved under the UN's Clean Development Mechanism, is destroying forests and livelihoods
The carbon con: investigating the true cost of offsetting The Ecologist | 1st December 2011 Other EFU Carbon Offsetting Climate Change Politics And Economics coal1.jpg The Ecologist investigates …
Rich industrialised countries have a responsibility to help others stick to their green responsibilities, argues Helena Norberg-Hodge, not collude in helping shirk them
The North-South divide Helena Norberg-Hodge | 22nd June 2008 News Greenhouse Emissions Globalisation Campaigns Global Warming International Development Campaigns UK US Campaigns Climate Change …
Introduction of measures to protect rainforests and ecosystems in Costa Rica and Thailand over the past 40 years have improved the livelihoods of the local population
Protecting rainforests shown to reduce poverty The Ecologist | 28th May 2010 News Rainforests Biodiversity Redd Natural World Society Politics And Economics Climate Change amazon.jpg Study findings …
How a rejection by the Nobel Committee spurred Jakob von Uexkull to create the Right Livelihood Award celebrating the solutions helping to ensure a healthy planet and people
… a radical challenge to conventional biology. 'I wasn't quite sure where I could …
Vandana Shiva explains to the Ecologist how the global anti-GM food movement resonates with the Occupy Wall Street protests
CAMPAIGN HERO: Vandana Shiva, anti-GM activist and head of Navdanya Rosie Spinks | 19th October 2011 Activism Gm Food Campaigning India Politics And Economics image.php.jpg Vandana Shiva explains to …
The world’s forests are natural carbon ‘sinks’ that remove and store atmospheric CO2. So why, in the name of saving the earth, asks Renton Righelato, are we cutting down these precious resources to make way for fuel crops?
Biofuels Report: Forests or Fuel Renton Righelato | 1st March 2007 News Biofuels Ethanol Biodiesel Crops Trees Deforestation Carbon Sinks Biofuel Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Deforestation Bio-fuels …
A law of ecocide could potentially see politicians who approve environmentally-damaging projects, like the tar sands pipeline between the US and Canada, face a court trial
Could politicians be charged with 'ecocide' if they approve tar sands pipeline? Rosie Spinks | 29th November 2011 News Investigations Politics And Economics Tar Sands Oil President Obama …
BP won't stop at dangerous deep water drilling: the company is bent on still more dangerous projects, including genetic modification and hacking the planet's atmosphere...
… genetic engineering known as synthetic biology, where entrepreneurs are building the …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
The scandal of planned technological obsolescence Nick Kettles | 6th August 2008 News Consumption Waste Sustainability Landfill Consumerism Landfills Recycling Green Living Politics And Economics …
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.
Engineering Hunger Andrew Kimbrell | 1st May 2003 News Agriculture Food Shortage Biotechnology Food Security Biotechnology Food And Farming Politics And Economics Science And Technology In the …
China boasts the fastest growing economy in the world. But how to calculate this development’s impact on natural resources, on public health and the environment? Pan Yue sets out the case for green GDP accounting
Taking account of China’s growth Pan Yue | 29th March 2007 News China GDP Economic Growth China Global Warming Globalisation Carbon Dioxide Climate Change Climate Change Politics And Economics …
The Dayak Benua community of Muara Tae, Indonesia, are fighting to protect their ancestral forests from a mining company. The London-based Environmental Investigation Agency has now launched a campaign to assist
TAKE ACTION to save Indonesia's indigenous peoples in the Kalmantan Forest Priyanka Mogul | 21st February 2012 Activism Natural World Politics And Economics Coal Power Indigenous People Indonesia …