Ben Whitford takes a look at the candidates for the next Mayor of New York City and asks if any of them can fill the green shoes of Bloomberg........
After Bloomberg, will the Big Apple stay green? Ben Whitford | 20th September 2013 News Politics liberty.jpg Will the next Mayor of New York think about the next 20 years, or just the next election? …
Campaign group Fight the Flights begins a High Court challenge to overturn Newham Council's decision to almost double the number of flights from 73,000 to 120,000 a year
High Court battle over London City Airport expansion Tom Levitt | 18th November 2010 News Airport London City Airport Aviation Flights Climate Change News londoncityairport.jpg London mayor Boris …
A rise in the uptake of technologies like aquaponics and aeroponics is helping to boost the growth of urban farming, but how much of our food can we really produce in the cities? Tom Levitt reports...
… much of our food can we really produce in the cities? Tom Levitt reports... Twenty-something … bring commercial vegetable growing into our cities, close to where most of the consumers … enthusiasts in London and other cities around the world. The opening of a café …
Theologian Martin Palmer tells Tom Levitt how we can learn from previous man-made ecological collapses in Britain and create a 'new narrative' that challenges our dominant consumer culture
… can't feed the troops, you can't protect the cities, and if you can't protect the cities, then everything falls apart. So that … of London in past crises, do you think cities are particularly at risk? One of the …
Plans for a new international airport in the coastal city of Mumbai will destroy yet more of its mangrove ecosystems, and there are fears the deal has already been closed
… green spaces in high-density towns and cities as migrating birds look to stop for …
It's the fossil fuel industry's latest stroke of genius - a coal substitute that's cheaper, dirtier and more toxic than coal itself, writes Ben Whitford. The waste product of refining heavy oil from Canada's tar sands, petcoke is stored in open mountains around Chicago's 'Slag Valley', sending plumes of sticky black dust over poor neighborhoods every time the wind blows.
… Whitford | 9th December 2014 News Fossil Fuel Cities Waste Pollution USA Oil Corporations … to less well-regulated sites in other cities. That shows the need for a more …
The acclaimed buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh talks to the Ecologist about the loss of biodiversity and why human vulnerability is not something we should despair about
… being an urban species? Well the life in the cities and the life in the countryside are … is losing itself for the sake of the cities. Most environmentalists narrow down the … that we should not continue to rush into the cities, but we should try to create …
Government lawyers set to argue in High Court that EU rules allow them to delay meeting air pollution targets until as late as 2025 in London despite growing health crisis
… to reduce air pollution in London and other cities, say campaigners, at the beginning of … air pollutant, Nitrogen Dioxide (NO2), in UK cities. Exposure to NO2 and other air … to an increasing amount of health problems in cities, including reduced lung capacity in …
On-going study of children in east London finds air pollution a factor in lung impairment - but political deadlock and lack of public awareness are holding up solutions
… an effect, then that’s an argument for other cities to introduce these sorts of measures. …
Green revolution approach of expensive fertilisers and seeds is failing and needs replacing with projects that prevent food waste, build resilience to climate change, and strengthen city farming
Worldwatch report attacks criminalising of seed saving and promotes agroecology Tom Levitt | 13th January 2011 News Agroecology Food And Farming Worldwatch Seeds Gm Biotech Africa …
Ben Whitford reveals why numerous birds fall dead and injured from the skies over urban areas each year, and asks what can be done to prevent this ongoing avian tragedy.
… routes take them through skyscraper-filled cities such as Toronto, New York and Chicago. …
The isolation of the white wilderness is coming to an end. Scientists and activists are urging caution but Russia is leading an urgent rush to exploit the Arctic’s oil and gas reserves. Tom Levitt reports
Putin’s Russia will lead a ‘new era of Arctic industrialisation’ Tom Levitt | 19th October 2011 News Arctic Russia Climate Change Natural World arctic2.jpg The Arctic could be ice-free in Summer …
Water scarcity and mis-management in India are creating a significant human and ecological crisis that will only be worsened by climate change
… a livelihood villagers have migrated to the cities, adding to existing urban problems and … are migrating into a world of poverty in the cities. ‘The reliability of water has gone for … problems of water scarcity. Rapidly growing cities are taking more water supplies away …
Ecological campaigner Million Belay talks about why protecting Ethiopia's biodiversity is so important and why he opposes the intervention of philanthropists like Bill Gates
… it is a top down curriculum set up in the cities and probably copied from England. It … there are differences. For example, in our cities in Ethiopia we don't see things like … to walk outside in nature even in your big cities. Useful links Movement for Ecological …
'Risky and secretive' gambling on the price of coffee, cocoa and wheat is leading to unstable food prices and exacerbating poverty and malnutrition but creating billions of pounds for the banking sector
Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion profit on food price speculation Tom Levitt | 19th July 2010 News Food And Farming Banks Food Crisis Speculation Society marketplace.jpg Dramatic food price rises in …
By quantifying the economic benefit of its trees through air pollution, shade and flood alleviation, the English Riviera town of Torbay hopes to reverse traditional local antagonism
… according to the Campaign group ' Trees for Cities '. Despite such evidence, just seven … in their districts. Useful links Trees for Cities Trees in Towns report 2008 READ …
A new vision to replace our grazing land with energy crops will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but many are unwilling to embrace its suggestions for our future diet and countryside
… It may also change the look of our cities if people start to take a renewed … much everywhere except big mountains and cities. Perennial crops are available for …
A movement is rising up on campuses across the US as campaigners, backed by a growing student body, say NO! to university investment in dirty energy. But will the campaign hit home? Ben Whitford reports ...
Campaigners target universities' fossil-fuel investments Ben Whitford | 2nd November 2013 News Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaigning Universities …
The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black Hills of South Dakota, ancestral home to the Lakota Indians - now fighting a massive mining project that threatens land, rivers and groundwater. But this time, writes Ben Whitford, the Lakota are not alone ...
Protect our sacred water! Ben Whitford | 3rd March 2014 News Mining Ecocide Indigenous Peoples USA Water Nuclear Power bh-protect-water.png The curse of Uranium has fallen once again on the Black …
The next world population milestone of 8 billion will come sooner than we think - perhaps as early as 2025 - yet we remain reluctant to debate the issue. A forthcoming Royal Society report may force us to
… areas of environmental risk, such as coastal cities, said Beddington, which as the recent …
Ben Whitford reviews a text which examines the links between historical scientific research and the climate change debate, and discovers that environmental crises were once considered part of terrifying military strategies......
… that would wreak havoc on Soviet coastal cities. Such notions weren’t merely the …