The latest book by activist Aidan Ricketts presents a powerful guide to successful campaigning.
… presents a powerful guide to successful campaigning. It astounds me how NGOs and … one step ahead of the game: whether it’s campaigning against BP’s sponsorship of the … The “feedback loop of effective corporate campaigning” draws the corporations into the …
As governments in economic difficulties increasingly turn to environmentally damaging extraction industries for quick cash, citizens of those countries are responding with increasingly louder cries of protest. Lorna Howarth reports...........
… Cree Nation of Alberta who are tirelessly campaigning against the tar sands catastrophe, …
In her new weekly column, the Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on the stories that show standing up for what we believe in can and does make a real difference.
Introducing Frontline Online: A weekly round up of environmental news and action from around the globe Lorna Howarth | 12th January 2013 News tar sands.jpg Frontline Online reports on environmental …
An inhospitable planet? As climate change forces increasingly large numbers of people to flee their homes, Ecologist blogger Dan Box considers what 'climate change refugees' actually means
Dan Box Blog: climate change refugees Dan Box | 5th March 2009 Comment Climate Change Blog Dan Box Refugees Carteret Islands Islanders Climate Change Campaigns Green Living Climate Change An …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline....
Frontline Online: Will GE Eucalyptus plantations feed the UK’s new biomass powerstations? Lorna Howarth | 15th February 2013 News eucl.jpg Eucalyptus plantations - not as green as they look. The …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline....
Frontline Online: What's killing our bees? Lorna Howarth | 3rd April 2013 News Colony Collapse Bees Neonicotinoid shutterstock_94126963.jpg In the US bee numbers have been decimated by almost 50% …
Is a business presence at Copenhagen crucial or corrosive? Either way, in a few weeks Denmark is going to be up to its eyes in corporate lobbyists...
Why Copenhagen will be crawling with business lobbyists Dan Box | 9th November 2009 Comment Copenhagen Climate Change Corporate danboxcomment.jpg Is a business presence at Copenhagen crucial or …
Filled up your car recently? Bought new bike tyres? Popped any pills? Then you're in part responsible for the Gulf of Mexico oil spill...
We're all responsible for BP's oil spill disaster Dan Box | 10th May 2010 Comment Energy Oil Politics And Economics Bp danboxcomment.jpg Filled up your car recently? Bought new bike tyres? Popped any …
Kenny Young - the songwriter who penned Under the Boardwalk and founder of Artists Project Earth - has died following a long battle with cancer.
Kenny Young - musician and environmentalist Herbert Girardet Lorna Howarth | 24th April 2020 News Music Artists Project Earth thumbnail_img_1040.jpeg Kenny Young - the songwriter who penned Under the …
Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer... well, enemies who are making some pretty bold pledges, at any rate
Are Nike, Starbucks and Walmart our best hope against climate change? Dan Box | 2nd March 2010 Comment Politics And Economics Climate Change Walmart Nike Starbucks danboxcomment.jpg Keep your friends …
21st century nuclear power needs a 21st century subsidy... no blank cheques this time - just an apparently green tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila!
The Government has found a backhanded way to subsidise nuclear power Dan Box | 24th May 2010 Comment Energy Politics And Economics Nuclear Carbon Emissions Steel Industrialisation danboxcomment.jpg …
Where the wild things are... Planning his trip to the Carterets Islands, Dan Box wonders what he'll encounter while in transit on Papua New Guinea
Dan Box Blog: Keeping an eye out Dan Box | 19th March 2009 Comment Dan Box Blog Climate Change Papua New Guinea The Carteret Islands Campaigns Climate Change Comments And Analysis Climate Change …
This blog is unlikely to win me many friends among readers of the Ecologist, but it needs to be said: after Copenhagen, we must accept that big business is just about the best hope we have left
… smart. And we do not have time to wait. Our campaigning NGOs, such as Greenpeace, mean …
As the UK government gives the go ahead for the country's first Biodiversity Offsetting (BO) scheme, Lorna Howarth explains why it will be a disaster for the nation's already declining wildlife
A license to trash? Why Biodiversity Offsetting (BO) will be a disaster for the environment Lorna Howarth | 9th September 2013 News Natural World Biodiversity Wildlife State Of Nature nightingale.jpg …
Officials can sternly lecture the City on its excesses as much as they like: when it comes to actually regulating it, politicians just don't care. And don't want us to know...
We should all know how RBS spends our money Dan Box | 26th October 2009 Comment Politics And Economics RBS Oil Gas Finance Money danboxcomment.jpg Officials can sternly lecture the City on its …
With a new coalition government the opportunities for fresh thinking about managing the UK countryside are vast, reports Dan Box. And the Stiperstones nature reserve is providing plenty of inspiration...
'Futurescapes': how a Shropshire land manager rewrote the conservation rulebook Dan Box | 14th September 2010 News Conservation DEFRA Wildlife Biodiversity Government Natural World Re-wilding …
Fancy some forest carbon, guv'nor? Only one careful owner... Dan Box explains why a cautious approach to deforestation schemes would be wise
Conmen are already selling dodgy forest carbon Dan Box | 16th October 2009 Comment Copenhagen Deforestation Climate Change Redd Forests danboxcomment.jpg Fancy some forest carbon, guv'nor? Only one …
The Ecologist's Lorna Howarth reports on news and action from the environmental frontline....
Frontline Online: Is this the point of no return? Lorna Howarth | 1st February 2013 News gp02fdu.jpg Open Cut Coal Mine in Collinsville, Australia. Despite climate change causing a severe heat wave, …
Allowing tar sands oil into Europe would be a victory for ‘profit-before-planet’ politics warns Lorna Howarth
Leaked Papers Show UK Government Will Backtrack on Tar Sands Extraction Being Classified As Highly Polluting Lorna Howarth | 17th May 2013 News Energy Politics + Economics Society Climate Change …
Denying the science of climate change is ill-informed, but then so is misreading a report to claim that the entire carbon market is flawed...
Climate deniers and Friends of the Earth are both wrong Dan Box | 17th February 2010 Comment Climate Change Natural World Climate Deniers Climate Sceptics Shell danboxcomment.jpg Denying the science …
The new feed-in tariffs are nothing if not controversial, but they also run the risk of conflicting with other, international, climate change policies
Having both emissions trading and feed-in tariffs is a waste of time Dan Box | 12th March 2010 Comment Energy Politicsandeconomics Feed-in Tariffs EU ETS Emissions Trading Carbon Trading …