Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media
… Undercurrents: the campaign film pioneers still setting the … Protest Road Direct Action Climate Change Campaign helensmiles.jpg Helen Iles has worked … been through the criminal justice system. Campaign films and social justice Helen's …
The video camera is the weapon of choice for activists and campaigners around the world, with campaign films an effective way to get a message across and fight back against mainstream media bias. Here's our guide to taking your stand...
… 2010 Activism How To Make A Difference Campaigning:the Basics Film Media Reporting … is the weapon of choice for activists and campaigners around the world, with campaign films an effective way to get a …
Stop polluting politics: activists hang a banner off Westminster Bridge vowing to challenge MPs who take oil money.
… vowing to challenge MPs who take oil money. Campaigners dropped a banner with the slogan … smoke flares to announce the start of a new campaign to end the fossil fuel lobby’s … the brand new Stop Polluting Politics campaign will challenge current and …
A proposed quarry in Kent could destroy even more ancient woodland sites than HS2 and Lower Thames Crossing combined, says the Woodland Trust.
… Crossing combined, says the Woodland Trust. Campaigners fear for the future of rare … response, the Woodland Trust has launched a campaign to stop what it claims would be one … in England of the 21st century. Trust campaign lead Jack Taylor said the proposal …
Fighting a mine funded by foreign investment in Gabon has seen Marc Ona Essangui spend time in prison, but his only response, he says, is 'serenity'
… he says, is 'serenity' For any environmental campaigner, winning a Goldman Prize is much … Essengui, a civil rights and environmental campaigner from Gabon who won his ‘green … Involved in environmental and humanitarian campaigning for more than ten years, Marc is …
Worried by an eco backlash, the bottled water industry is waging a PR battle to turn the public back onto plastic bottled water
… growth is down to an aggressive marketing campaign by companies fighting to purify a … prefer tap or perceive no difference) and campaigns such as those run by London’s … Water Matters, a ‘pro-bottle’ internet campaign aimed at encouraging Americans to …
Bristol’s Clean Air Zone is a positive step in tackling illegal levels of pollution - but campaigners want further action to enhance the quality of life in the city.
… in tackling illegal levels of pollution - but campaigners want further action to enhance the … aim to reduce the amount of cars on the road, campaigners argue that further changes are … of concerned individuals and local groups campaigning on the issue of Bristol's polluted …
A new fundraiser has been launched to support Jan Goodey with everyday costs of living and legal fees this Christmas.
… on the M25 as part of a Just Stop Oil (JSO) campaign earlier last month. Supporters have … to mitigate climate impact. Solidarity Campaigners see Jan's imprisonment as part of … raised £1,700 towards the £2,500 target. Campaigners have set up the appeal on the …
David Cameron's appointment of a 'shops tsar', the controversial Localism Bill, and increasing opposition to supermarkets and other chain stores could mark a turning point in the struggle to save Britain's high streets
… been on individuals, communities and campaign groups to act to prevent the creeping … the month. Observers including environmental campaigner and blogger Duncan Clark have … spokesperson and Friends of the Earth food campaigner Helen Rimmer: councillors recently …
Campaigners urge public to go car free for a month - to lower greenhouse gases and living costs.
… Editor’s Picks 2919022054_23b6ffd982_c.jpg Campaigners urge public to go car free for a … make a positive climate impact. Freedom The campaign gives participants the freedom to … Club. Sandra Green, a car free Birmingham campaigner at Possible, said: “It’s brilliant …
The Ecologist today publishes Strategy 2023-6 promising a greater focus on the impacts of the fossil fuel economy - and a vision of a regenerative future.
… a useful service to front line activists and campaigners. The strategy we have published … and organisations on the front line of the campaign to end the fossil fuel economy, and … and potential future funders. The activists, campaigners and academics engaged in …
Ecuador's successful referendum should protect vital biodiversity in the Amazon rainforest.
… 750,000 signatures amassed by the Yasunidos campaign group almost nine years ago . Biodiverse Antonella Calle Avilés started campaigning aged 19 and has dedicated the last decade to the campaign: her work has finally paid off. She …
Irshad Mobarak, a self-taught naturalist and environmentalist from the Malaysian island of Langkawi says that development need not mean destruction
… irshad-2009-(4)-small.jpg Irshad Mobarak is campaigning to protect the wildlife and … needn't mean destruction. As well as his campaign of education and petitioning the … afford to destroy them. If Irshad Mobarak's campaign yields results on Langkawi, it may …
Human rights groups call for urgent protection of Indigenous land after death of last remaining member of an Amazonian tribe.
… and has protected his area since the 1990s. A campaign had fought to enlarge his tiny … together with organisations inside Brazil, campaigned for many years for his land to be … Land Protection Orders . Bolsonaro has long campaigned to abolish these protections. In …
Some of nature's most majestic creatures are migratory, but their future in a changing world is far from certain, as a stunning new book of photographs makes clear
… 15 per cent discount READ MORE... NEWS Campaigners launch 'last ditch' attempt to … in wildlife conservation From joining campaigns groups to making your garden more …
Eifion Rees talks to the Compassion in World Farming veteran and co-editor of The Meat Crisis - a shocking new book that exposes the range of environmental and health threats facing us if we don't kick our addiction to meat
… they do on defence in an engaging advertising campaign you’d get people dying to eat tofu or … around freely. ER: CIWF had its Eat Less Meat campaign in 2004, now there is Meat Free Monday and similar campaigns, and a growing number of people …
It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a 'greener' fuel. The Ecologist reports
… Peter Karamoskos, of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), … reactors would soon add up. Anti-nuclear campaigner Peter Karamoskos goes further, … and former Friends of the Earth anti-nuclear campaigner Neil Crumpton says the government …
More sites may be added to the UNESCO List of World Heritage Sites in Danger this week, but how effective is this register of global hot spots, and what are the areas that truly deserve international protection?
… its most famous international safeguarding campaign in 1959: the relocation of the … the future of our oceans. Jonathan Mazower, campaigns coordinator, Survival International … critical to the ultimately successful campaign to protect Pacific grey whales. The …
All you need to know to start putting your money where your mouth is
… of the Earth's Demand Ethical Investment campaign page has a sample letter than you can … address from your employer. • Fair Pensions campaigns to use the power of the shareowner … says Duncan Exley, Fair Pensions' director of campaigns. ‘They have influence with the …
All you need to know to start putting your money where your mouth is
… of the Earth's Demand Ethical Investment campaign page has a sample letter than you can … address from your employer. • Fair Pensions campaigns to use the power of the shareowner … says Duncan Exley, Fair Pensions' director of campaigns. ‘They have influence with the …
Jan Goodey, the Just Stop Oil activist, will spend Christmas behind bars following his arrest for stopping traffic on the M25.
… and Courts Act (PCSC) 2022. Peaceful JSO campaigners, joined by supporters of Animal … This is what Jan has done.” Freedoms JSO campaigners justify disruption as part of a …
The findings of a strategic environmental assessment open the way for an increase in the number of offshore wind farms, which could produce enough energy to power every household in the UK
… the UK's electricity demand,’ said FoE energy campaigner Nick Rau. ‘Boosting offshore wind … gone unchallenged,’ he wrote, launching the campaign in an email from his Weber Shandwick …
Strapped for garden space needn't mean being strapped for home-grown veg, as an experienced London balcony gardener reveals
… of seed are up 40 per cent. Its Grow Your Own campaign will focus on container growing next … outside space, the National Trust launched a campaign earlier this year to persuade …
Eifion Rees reports on the group bringing the heart back to supermarkets with a rooftop vegetable garden
… NEWS ANALYSIS 'Underhand tactics and smear campaign' alleged over controversial Tesco … Whitlock investigates how a long-running campaign against the supermarket giant was …