The world's two largest clothing brands are among those that have just commited to eliminate pulp from ancient and endangered forests from all of their rayon and viscose clothing.
World's two biggest clothiers go deforestation-free The Ecologist | 4th April 2014 News Forests Fashion Corporations handm-poster.png The world's two largest clothing brands are among those that have …
Could your fashion style be destroying forests and driving orang-utans towards extinction? Nicole Rycroft shows how cellulose fibres used in textiles are a major cause of biodiversity loss worldwide. But your choices can make all the difference ...
Forest-friendly fashion Nicole Rycroft | 3rd December 2013 Activism Forests Fashion Fibre canopy-forest-floor.png Could your fashion style be destroying forests and driving orang-utans towards …
What do the Australian Environment Foundation, the Renewable Energy Foundation and the Global Warming Policy Foundation have in common? They are all fiercely anti-environment, writes William Laurance - and we must beware their 'eco-doublespeak'.
Beware environmental wolves in sheep's clothing! William Laurance | 9th June 2014 Activism Climate Change Forests Politics Campaigning Renewables Energy UK Australia Media sheep-wolf-teeth-cut.jpg …
We may know that palm oil is wiping out rainforests worldwide, writes Philip Lymbery. But few realise that our factory farmed meat and dairy are contributing to the problem. As revealed in Philip's new book, 'Dead Zone: Where the Wild Things Were', palm kernels, left after pressing the fruit for oil, is a protein-rich livestock feed of growing importance. And nowhere is the impact greater than Sumatra, home (for now) to its own unique species of elephant.
… lose my luggage, I had little more than the clothes I was wearing, and these were now … something rather pitiful about the bedraggled clothes. Drying them was now the least of the …
Slavery is a terrible thing for the world's estimated 36 million slaves, writes Kevin Bales. But it's also an environmental disaster. Many slaves are forced to work in destructive activities like clearing forests for mines, farms and plantations - making slave labour the world's third biggest 'country' in terms of CO2 emissions. It really is time to end slavery!
… the food we eat and the air we breathe, the clothes we wear and possibly the device you're …
The Kawahiva, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon rainforest, face extinction unless Brazil's government acts to secure their legal rights to land, security and to remain undisturbed by outsiders, writes Lewis Evans. The decree that would achieve this vital goal has been sitting on the Minister of Justice's desk since 2013. Let's make sure he signs it soon, before it's too late.
Brazil must save Amazon's Kawahiva tribe from genocide Lewis Evans | 8th February 2016 Activism Indigenous Peoples Forests Brazil Amazon The Land kawahiva-still-02-cut.jpg The Kawahiva, an …
It's not just Indonesia's forests and peatlands that are burning - the Amazon is suffering almost as badly, with over 18,000 fires last month in Brazil alone, write Jos Barlow & Erika Berenguer. The future is looking hot and fiery.
… yellow, would rise red - if at all. Even our clothes and our hair smell constantly of …
A new paradigm of forest conservation is gaining ground, writes Isaac Rojas: 'financialising' them and the climate and ecological services they provide to global investors. But this is a false solution - and one that excludes the local and indigenous forest communities who can truly be relied upon to sustain their sylvan heritage.
Local communities, not global financiers, are the best forest managers Isaac Rojas Friends of the Earth International | 2nd November 2015 Comment Forests Commons Finance Indigenous Peoples …
The economic troubles in Argentina have been widely reported around the world. The impoverishment of the middle classes and the Argentines’ growing cynicism about their politicians have been extensively written up. Less well covered in the news has been the effects of the crisis on Argentina’s very poorest – people who live far from the eye of city-based reporters, the country’s original inhabitants, a people despised and vilified as ‘savages’ by the settler population.
… to look like a form of rape: tearing the clothes off a woman’s body for the sake of … of these communities, so they can hand-sew clothes that they can wear and sell. It has …
Survivors of a previously unknown Amazon tribe have escaped gunmen in Peru, seeking refuge with settled indigenous communities in Brazil. But as Alice Bayer reports, their problems are far from over. Many remain under threat in Peru, and even the refugees are at risk of common but potentially lethal infections.
Peru: uncontacted tribe flees massacre in the Amazon Alice Bayer Survival International | 22nd August 2014 News Brazil Peru Indigenous Peoples Forests Mining Health funai-6-cut.jpg Survivors of a …
Isn't three trillion trees enough to keep our planet healthy? It sounds like a lot, writes James Dyke, but they are under threat as never before, from deliberate deforestation and climate change. Many of the 1.5 billion trees we are losing a year are in the last great rainforests - key ecosystems under threat of drying out forever under our escalating double onslaught.
… as fuel for cooking or smelting, fibres for clothes, timber for construction. However it …
The palm oil industry's repeated failure to keep its promises illustrates why global initiatives to achieve 'sustainable palm oil' must place communities centre-stage, writes FPP. Standard-setters like the RSPO must demand action, enforcement and accountability - not just lofty commitments that inspire hope, but rarely deliver.
… What's the use of a new emperor without any clothes, when we already have one that is only …
🌳 Professor Deirdre Heddon and Dr Misha Myers explain how their Walking Library functions as a public artwork connecting people with places and writing.
… day of chopping it off with my hook to make a clothes-line prop with. But I put off doing …
In the thick of the Olympic frenzy, one voice that was systematically excluded from mainstream narratives is that of Brazil's Indigenous Peoples, writes Lewis Evans, who have fought to survive through centuries of dehumanisation, theft and genocide. And now they face a fresh attack as a proposed constitutional change, PEC 215, threatens a new round of indigenous land theft.
Brazil's Olympic triumph - don't mention the genocide! Lewis Evans | 25th August 2016 Comment Indigenous Peoples Brazil Genocide The Land Forests Politics bra-zoe-fw-186_original-cut.jpg In the thick …
Western consumers are inadvertently driving the Sumatran elephant to extinction by eating, washing and wearing - in cosmetics - the derivatives of a fruit that is destroying the animal's last remaining forest habitat. Jim Wickens reports
… Britain We eat it as vegetable oil, wash our clothes with it as detergent, we use it in …
The outbreak of Ebola in West Africa had everything to do with logging, deforestation and the disruption of traditional agro-forestry by large scale industrial agriculture, writes Rob Wallace. The only long term solution to this terrible disease may lie in forest conservation, the restoration of agroecological farming systems, and the exclusion of agribusiness investment.
Neoliberal Ebola: palm oil, logging, land grabs, ecological havoc and disease Rob Wallace | 27th July 2015 News Food Farming Ecology Health Forests Science conakry-guinea-cut.jpg The outbreak of …
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends.
A steady-state economy Herman Daly | 1st April 2008 News Steady-state Economics Throughput Economics Environment Lessons From Nature Food Security Rationing Risk Community Consumerism Forests Animal …