Some 245 Indian villages are in the middle of being destroyed by a $7 billion dam project that will consume more energy than it provides and has even been condemned by its World Bank sponsors.
Submerging Freedom Keith Hyams | 1st March 2004 News Dam Narmada Domkhedi Maharashtra Reservoir Community Dams Community Human Rights International Development Energy Society FREEDAM_MAR04_MAIN.jpg …
Building a more sustainable future is vital if our societies are to survive in a post-fossil-fuel future – but, argues Susan Roaf, the way we build must itself first change
… capable of being run by machines alone? Like boats or planes, buildings are one part of the …
Being off the beaten track need not require lashings of fossil fuels to provide a comfortable lifestyle. James Morrison tells the remarkable story of the inhabitants of Scotland's Knoydart Peninsula
Learning from remote, sustainable communities James Morrison | 22nd December 2009 News Society Community Sustainability Self-sufficiency inverie-knoydart-small.jpg Inverie, the 'capital' of the …
Thanks in large part to continued activism by nuclear campaign group CND, the government is facing a rebellion of MPs in today’s vote on whether to renew Britain’s nuclear missile system, Trident.
Trident vote hangs in the balance 14th March 2007 News Nuclear Trident Missile Weapon WMD CND UK Military Society News web pic 2_36.jpg Thanks in large part to continued activism by nuclear campaign …
Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his friends killed and has suffered torture at the hands of the Burmese military. Now he is taking Unocal, one of the US companies that trades with the murderous regime, to court. One of the most wanted men in Burma, talks to The Ecologist.
Tortured Soul Jeremy Smith | 8th July 2004 News Military Burma Unocal ATCA Pipeline Slaves L Oil Boycotts US Human Rights Military Politics And Economics Society Ka Hsaw Wa has seen many of his …
The first blows may be struck on Canadian ice, but it's at the checkout that the coup de grace is delivered. Andrew Wasley explores the UK companies profiting from the trade in seal fur
… before being dragged to nearby sealing boats for skinning, in some instances while …
Consuming endangered wildlife is illegal in China, but it continues on a large scale in the country’s south. Walter Parham reports on a habit that locals just cannot kick – even after the SARS crisis.
South China’s taste for wildlife Walter Parham | 2nd August 2008 News China Wildlife SARS Endangered China Animal Rights Conservation Natural World Food And Farming Society mouselg.jpg Consuming …
Parliament has recommended it, Sainsbury’s has tried it and Tesco is doing it, but what is the future for sustainable transport along the UK’s inland waterways?
… such as Liverpool receive more imports. Using boats and barges to get goods as close to …
Government and big business are countering resurgent eco activism with spies, strongarm tactics and news manipulation. Who are they calling terrorists? asks Andrew Wasley
… coal ports. Rising Tide shut that down with boats. More locally, if you throw a stone …
Lettuces, peppers and other vegetables grown under 'semi-slavery' conditions in Spain are filling supermarket shelves in the UK, writes Almudena Serpis. Workers are routinely abused, underpaid, sprayed with pesticide, and sacked if they dare complain, an C4News / Ecologist investigation has found. But now they are getting organised to defend their rights.
Salad days? Semi-slavery on the 'sweating fields' of southern Spain Almudena Serpis EFU | 16th April 2015 News Food Farming Society Spain UK Human Rights sprayed-pesticide-1.jpg Lettuces, peppers and …
Churches turned into pubs. Brooding Victorian warehouses replaced with sparkly identikit apartments. Family shops and independent cafes bankrupted by Starbucks, Tesco’s et al. When will we wake up to this grim, placeless reality?
… and dozens of scruffy residential narrowboats are lined up bow to stern along the … once was a line of moored residential narrowboats is now a line of worried boaters, … repair and maintenance services for canal boats, and wants to sell the site for – yes, …
The Conservative attack on the environment is being carried out for good reasons, writes Chris Rose: because they can; because it delights their support base; because it heads off UKIP; and because they think it carries no political risk. Now it's up the UK's green movement to prove them wrong. But have our 'herbivorous' NGOs got the stomach for a fight?
Strange happenings on a small island off Europe Chris Rose | 31st July 2015 News UK Politics Climate Change Society bullingdon-cut.jpg The Conservative attack on the environment is being carried out …