The 2011 Energy Act provides for a ‘Green Deal’ in which households will be encouraged to borrow money on easy terms to finance energy saving home improvements. But will it work?
Is Chris Huhne's 'Green Deal' just a marketing strategy? Sam Arie | 25th November 2011 Comment Chris Huhne Green Deal Politics And Economics Energy Comment sustainablerefurbcover.jpg The 2011 Energy …
What can we expect of December’s meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Poznan, Poland? The main question will be how to follow the Kyoto Protocol’s first ‘commitment period’, which ends in 2012.
Kyoto2: how to manage the global greenhouse Oliver Tickell | 1st December 2008 Comment Kyoto Kyoto2 Climate Change Poznan UN Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCC) Climate Change Campaigns …
What started out as a conventional UN bureaucracy has become the subject of wild speculation and fear - just what is the UN's Codex Alimentarius, and what does it mean for our food and health?
Will the UN's Codex Alimentarius make our food less nutritious? Chris Milton | 10th August 2010 News Food And Farming Health Codex Alimentarius Food Rules Un Politics And Economics nutritionlabel.jpg …
The Government has backtracked on radical plans for personal carbon trading schemes, reports Jamie Andrews – taking accountability for what we emit is the only way to go.
Personal Carbon Allowance: emission impossible? Jamie Andrews | 20th June 2008 Comment Carbon Trading Government Emissions Tourism Environment Climate Change Politics And Economics Climate SOS_5.jpg …
In the midst of the US domestic energy boom, livestock on farms near oil-and-gas drilling operations nationwide have been quietly falling sick and dying. Elizabeth Royte reports
Livestock falling ill in fracking regions, raising concerns about food Elizabeth Royte | 28th January 2013 News Fracking Food And Farming Politics And Economics Energy Agriculture News Analysis …
Don’t be afraid of the recession, says Andrew Simms , it may just be the lucky break we need to get our heads around a more sane economy and a better quality of life
Less is more - the move to a saner happier economy Andrew Simms | 1st April 2008 Comment Consumption Growth Recession Wellbeing Happiness Alternative Economics Economics Rationing Mental Health …
In the first of an exclusive new series Bibi van der Zee sets out how we'll put to the test David Cameron's pledge to head the 'greenest government in history' - and why we need YOUR help
COALITION GREEN WATCH: Will the Tory Lib-Dem government deliver on its environmental promises? Bibi van der Zee | 4th November 2010 Comment Politics And Economics David Cameron Climate DEFRA Decc …
The privatisation of global water services means billion-dollar profits for corporations and pollution, disconnection and soaring prices for consumers
The privatisation of water Jon Luoma | 1st March 2004 News Water Pollution Corporations Privatisation Bottled Water Human Rights Violations Fresh Water Politics And Economics Pollution Society Waste …
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission
CASE STUDY: from campaign group to Westminster Dixe Wills | 20th March 2009 Activism Campaigning Case Study Tony Juniper Friends Of The Earth Parliament Cambridge Campaigns Animal Rights Species …
The current economic downturn is hard, but it’s also filled with opportunities to remake the world in a more sustainable way, says Stephen Hale
Don't believe the hype Stephen Hale | 1st October 2008 News Economics Recession Myths Media Finance Economics Politics And Economics Dont_Hype_MAIN.jpg The current economic downturn is hard, but it’s …
More than seven out of ten edible marine species in the EU are over-fished and coastal communities are dying. So you might think new draft reforms would help reverse this trend. Not so, says Victor Paul Borg, who investigates the impact of changes that the community fishermen themselves do not want
… that aquaculture actually provided such a conservation benefit is with sturgeon for …
As a new oil-fever gathers pace in Arctic countries such as Greenland the lesson from history is that where there is oil, corruption will quickly follow. Eifion Rees reports
… in the Arctic, but ‘when and where, says conservation biologist and oil industry expert …
The US authorities have allowed Formosa Plastics and other chemicals corporations to poison the waterways of the Texas Gulf Coast for decades. When local shrimp-boat operator Diane Wilson found out what was going on she single-handedly set about forcing Formosa to clean up its act.
Are you too well behaved Diane Wilson | 1st October 2004 News EPA Shrimp Boats Fisherman Industrial Pollution Plastic Formosa Texas Industrial Pollution Companies Fishing Crisis Industrial Plastics …
Is the constitution inherently undemocratic, or will it make the EU more accountable to European voters? Is greater coordination at the European level essential for promoting environmental safeguards, or will it merely serve the interests of big business Marc Glendening and Richard Corbett discuss
… common market, and – if we’re serious about conservation – fisheries too. After all, fish …
When PCB transformers exploded in a New York university in 1991, contaminating the campus with dioxins, it set Eric Francis Coppolino on the path to becoming an environmental journalist.
… york; the state Department of environmental Conservation; the state University of New york …
The Export Credit Guarantee Department is accused of underwriting unethical and carbon-intensive business deals in developing countries and operating with a lack of transparency - charges it denies.
… plan an ‘ecological disaster’ Simple water conservation rather than a multi-billion pound …
Following last month's exclusive Ecologist investigation, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues...
Silenced witness Jon Hughes | 30th November 2007 News Brofiscin Quarry Monsanto Pollution South Wales Industrial Companies Environment Health Politics And Economics Pollution june cover 2007 wild …
Following last month's Ecologist story, Burying the truth, the Douglas Gowan story continues.
Silenced witness Jon Hughes | 30th November 2007 News Brofiscin Quarry Monsanto Pollution South Wales Industrial Companies Environment Health Politics And Economics Pollution Investigates_63.jpg …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
The scandal of planned technological obsolescence Nick Kettles | 6th August 2008 News Consumption Waste Sustainability Landfill Consumerism Landfills Recycling Green Living Politics And Economics …
Starved of funding by the US embargo and the Soviet Union's collapse, Cuba has a health service to put its rich northern enemy to shame. Much of the responsibility for this medical miracle is due to the island's transformation into a model of environmental
good practice
… can Castro teach us? Well, a little bit about conservation for starters. In a world of …
The world lives under oil’s spell. Jeremy Smith reveals the extent to which the industry’s by-products have permeated our lives.
Oil & Security Jeremy Smith | 1st April 2003 News Oil Oil Dependency Saudi Oil Iraq Plastic PVC Hemp Oil Alternatives Russia Oil Russia Security Bush Oil George W Bush Opec Middle East Companies …