How can we stop the juggernauts of so-called progress from sweeping away every bit of individualism and community that well-run high streets bring us? John Bird wants to give you his card
… Community Wedge John Bird | 6th September 2007 Comment Wedge Card Community Supermarkets Profit Community Consumerism Green Living Green …
From theory to practice, how one man in Totnes is helping a community respond to the threat of peak oil – from its own currency to relearning lost arts. Ed Hamer reports
… And Energy Lets Housing Totnes Peak Oil Community Archive_261.jpg From theory to … practice, how one man in Totnes is helping a community respond to the threat of peak oil – … to reduce the carbon footprint of an entire community in a way that is imaginative, fun …
The Sustainable Communities Bill - the landmark legislation tabled by MP Nick Hurd which promises to be an enabling act for local communities - has passed its third reading in the House of Commons.
… Communities Bill Local Works Nick Hurd Local Community UK Campaigns Community Politics And Economics Society News …
Has your local pub closed down? Is your high street turning into a drab strip of chain stores? Has Tesco boarded up your post-office and turned in into an 'express' store? If so, then you need to know about the Sustainable Communities Bill. Mark Anslow asks if this is the most important piece of legislation since Labour came to power
… as a council’s idea of engaging with a local community. Instead, the local authority must … website, in local papers, and through local community groups. The idea is that as many … Woolas, Minister for Local Government and Community Cohesion, on the grounds that this …
The battle of local communities against Tesco is much larger than first thought with over 80 local campaigns against the supermarket.
… said the arrival of Tesco had affected her community greatly, "Tesco has no place here. They don't care for the community and feel so powerful that they can happily destroy a community, its local businesses and character, …
The Minister for Local Government and Community Cohesion was on the defensive. He thinks that the government's policy already deals with sustainable communities. Devolving power to the people, he says, it what Labour is all about. Listen and make your own mind up.
… Other The Minister for Local Government and Community Cohesion was on the defensive. He …
March 22nd in World Water Day, an UN initiative to draw attention to the dreadful conditions in which many millions of the world's citizens draw their water. Maggie King reports
… in desperate need of water for their community. For instance, currently, one drop …
Most of us have a party in our pockets – those digital devices that promised a global village. We found that village, all right, and it is peopled with idiots. Plugged into iPods, chatting into palms, we are lost in techno-torpor enveloping us 24/7 from any locale.
… Bugeja | 1st January 2007 News Mobile Phones Community Electronics Community Consumerism Computers Telecoms Green … arsenal, this one above all has undermined community. Only a few years ago, if you …
Paul Kingsnorth meets the Bristol-based chef with an eco-friendly restaurant and a mission to take real food to a wider community.
… and a mission to take real food to a wider community. Bristol has changed. When I lived … ways to take real food to the wider community. He’s opened and run cookery schools … the staff education, our links with community groups, energy use, etc. And there …
According to the Campaign For Real Ale (CAMRA), 56 pubs are being forced to close in the UK every month. Rising property prices and the underhand tactics of big pub chains are two major causes. We asked Iain Loe, from CAMRA, and John Longdon from 'Pub is the Hub', what communities can do to save their locals.
Small, local initiatives are the best way to preserve tropical rainforests but are being ignored by governments, a new study has shown.
… 19th July 2007 News Rainforest Amazon Logging Community Local Small-scale Farming Community Climate Change Natural World Society … Timber Organisation has indicated that community projects such as fruit and nut …
A global capitalist economy obsessed with economic growth has plenty of faults, but chances are it's here to stay. Fortunately, there are other types of organisations out there to prove that the limited liability or plc company is not the only way to get business done.
… on purchases), or used for the benefit of the community. Wealth is anchored in local …
Using the Sellafield nuclear site in Cumbria for long-term nuclear waste disposal could be illegal, a leading academic has said.
… some degree of acceptance amongst the local community – make it an attractive choice. ‘To choose Sellafield yet again, by way of community voluntarism, and despite the lessons …
David Cameron has thrown the full weight of his party behind the Bill. But does he realise what it entails? He thinks that people would need to start 'thinking local' to take advantage of what the Bill offers. Listen and make your own mind up.
David Cameron at the Sustainable Communities Rally 26th March 2007 Other David Cameron has thrown the full weight of his party behind the Bill. But does he realise what it entails? He thinks that …
Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly will announce plans today that will enable homeowners to fit solar panels and wind turbines without applying for planning permission, the Guardian reports.
… economy and society has to take place at a community level. The local planning system …
Don’t wait for Dave or Tony to give you a hug. If you are dissatisfied with your leaders, take control of your own
… Papworth Cassandra UK Urban Living Children Community Politics And Economics Society … to say nothing of the disintegration of local community life, can only result in some sort …
Carbon trading, its backers claim, brings emissions reductions and supports sustainable development in the global south. But, argues Kevin Smith, it may do neither, and is harming efforts to create a low-carbon economy.
… about 10,000 people from social movements, community groups and civil society … that are increasingly becoming the target of community protest in China. Pollution and …
Happiness is... Climate change isn’t just a threat. It’s an opportunity for us to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
… self as individual and self as member of community. It made us different people. Worse … that what modern westerners lack is community— we’ve lost the connections to other … the supermarket – an order of magnitude more community. Something like an order of …
It's easy to forget, amidst endless negative news coverage, that the US has one of the biggest environmental movements in the world. Maggie King reports on the activities planned for Earth Day, Sunday 22nd April
Earth Day 2007 Maggie King | 19th April 2007 News Earth Day US USA Environmentalism Campaigns Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Climate Change Climate Change News web pic 2_86.jpg It's easy to forget, …
John Stewart, chairman of aviation pressure group HACAN ClearSkies, explains why BAA has been out-gunned and out-manoeuvred
… is trying to conjure up the image of a local community about to be overrun by environmental … at a recent public meeting in a local community centre staged by the Climate Camp …
Last December's Barker Review replaces democracy with economic growth. Ex <i>Ecologis</i>t editor Simon Fairlie claims our land is being sold to the highest bidder
… UK Farming Food Security Green Lifestyle Community Politics And Economics … cash bribes which she euphemistically calls “community good will payments” — although good …
Environmentalists held their breath in expectation of Gordon Brown's 'green' budget. Was it worth the wait? Miriam Kennet, a director of the Green Economics Institute, looks at where the Chancellor went awry...
… to realise that planning for a strong local community means local facilities, local supply … wants services that work and a sense of community. The incentive to free trade and big …
Prominent critics of the failure of Environment Agency Wales (EAW) to pursue the UK’s interests against Monsanto in the US Bankruptcy Court have come under extraordinary attack over the past 10 days.
… to emerge. The Ecologist has spoken to community leaders in North Wales and Telford, … the contents had ‘unexpectedly’ liquefied, community leader the Reverend Paul Cawthorne …