From Darina Allen's mountain picnics, to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season
… Ecologist guide to a green Christmas Jemima … 1st November 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Ecologist Guides Christmas Darina Allen Geetie … Rob Hopkins Transition Network Livia Firth Eco Age Mark Boyle Freeconomy Sam Roddick Tom …
From Darina Allen's mountain picnics to Mark Boyle's moneyless meditations and Craig Sams decorating with fungi, 11 environment-minded luminaries tell us what they'll be doing this festive season
… Ecologist guide to a green Christmas Jemima … 1st November 2010 Ethical Living Green Living Ecologist Guides Christmas Darina Allen Geetie … Rob Hopkins Transition Network Livia Firth Eco Age Mark Boyle Freeconomy Sam Roddick Tom …
A new project at Bath University shows that building with straw is not just eco-friendly, but cheap, easily adaptable and fully recyclable at the end of its life
… Using compressed straw as the ultimate eco building material Eifion Rees | 20th … shows that building with straw is not just eco-friendly, but cheap, easily adaptable and …
Forget impersonal internet interactions, Project Dirt is connecting green initiatives in real life to make environmental change at a local level a reality
… Project Dirt: the eco-web project that's much more than the … to help people start up or get involved in eco work on the ground. ‘Project Dirt is about … in the past 18 months, the site is rapidly becoming the place to be for new and …
Eifion Rees finds out that the golfing world’s eco credentials are simply full of holes.
… - how the golfing green fares poorly on eco-credentials Eifion Rees | 24th July 2008 … Rees finds out that the golfing world’s eco credentials are simply full of holes. It’s … is no such thing as an “environmentally friendly” golf course. Some may just be a …
Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today to celebrate the coming together of marriage and environmentalism. Do you, reader, take this, the Ecologist, to be your guide to environmentally friendly weddings...
… Do you, reader, take this, the Ecologist, to be your guide to environmentally friendly weddings... Everyone loves a wedding. … (certainly if you acted on last month's Ecologist guide to sex ), same-sex marriages …
The European Commission has dropped measures to improve air quality and reduce waste from its work plan for 2015 - instead 'cutting red tape' and prioritizing 'jobs, growth, investment' at all costs.
… Commission dumps eco-initiatives in 2015 work plan Oliver … agreement" would be reached. Circular economy package - in a permanent loop? Another major caualty is the 'Circular Economy Package' which would reduce waste by …
Eifion Rees reports on the video journalists producing environmental and social justice films that influence public opinion - and consistently get closer to the issues than the mainstream media
… is a series of short internet films about eco villages that became a longer feature, Ecovillage Pioneers. Most prominent among the eco villages featured in the series is Lammas, …
Britain's new Environment Secretary is young (38), female, blonde, believes in climate change, and has floated imaginative policies to deal with it from a carbon tax to 'personal carbon allowances'. As for badgers ... her silence on the topic promises well.
… The evidence says 'yes'! OK, her recent record as a minister in the Department of … be on the way. On the other hand, her voting record is one of strong support for selling off … up ever more countryside: "The most ecofriendly locations would appear to be those …
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops'
… impact has been observed in respect of social economic and environmental aspects […] Rather … the launch of asset-backed ‘bamboo bonds’. EcoPlanet Bamboo, the company behind them, … it most. [They] are breathing, living, eco-friendly environments and certainly are better …
Lynx could be re-introduced to sites in England and Scotland before the end of 2015, according to the Lynx UK Trust, which has just issued polling and survey results that show strong support for the idea among the UK population.
… year' Oliver Tickell | 27th April 2014 News Ecology Predators UK e lynx by erwin van … reintroduction survey in Scotland which recorded an 86% approval rating. "That led to … managed programs constructing whole new eco-friendly industries such as wildlife tourism …
After a second extra day of climate talks in Lima, an agreement has been cobbled together. Deadlines have been set for the world to come up with plans to curb emissions and adapt to climate change - but has been no progress on the key divisive issues, and the prospects of an effective mew treaty in Paris next year remain remote.
… Change climate-march-lima-cut.jpg After a second extra day of climate talks in Lima, an … on which every country was prepared to agree. Eco-NGO's caustic reaction Environmental … News Network . Oliver Tickell edits The Ecologist. Once again poorer nations have been …
It produces less radioactive waste and more power than uranium but the UK would be making a mistake in looking to it as a 'greener' fuel. The Ecologist reports
… in looking to it as a 'greener' fuel. The Ecologist reports In a world increasingly … by global warming, the news that 2010 was a record year for greenhouse gases levels was … that thorium reactors will already be uneconomic. Indeed, if renewables had a fraction …
Kicking off a new series of 'how to...' we show you the most satisfying way to 'green up' your lovemaking between the sheets. Now relax, lie back and think of the Ecologist…
… sheets. Now relax, lie back and think of the Ecologist… You’ve cycled home from work, … in the 1960s, but its side-effects are becoming increasingly evident in the natural … Glass is infinitely more stylish and eco-friendly an option. Phthalate-free, …
David Cameron's appointment of a 'shops tsar', the controversial Localism Bill, and increasing opposition to supermarkets and other chain stores could mark a turning point in the struggle to save Britain's high streets
… Small Island almost two decades ago; the New Economics Foundation (NEF) coined the term … them. The stranglehold they exert means local economies become fragile and social interaction …
It's one of the healthiest, most versatile 'weeds' around. Asian countries have enjoyed the benefits for centuries. So where is the market for homegrown UK seaweed?
… be another barrier to the promotion of this ecofriendly foodstuff. 'Since it was announced …
The 'Autumn Statement' delivered with such aplomb by the Chancellor is yet another attack on the UK's sustainable future, write David Lowry & Oliver Tickell - cutting energy efficiency funds just as tens of thousands are set to die of cold this winter, betting £250m on pointless nuclear research, and raiding the renewables budget to fund subsidies to nuclear power and fossil fuels.
… CCS. This technology is critical for the UK's economic, industrial and climate policies." … important for reducing emissions across the economy and could almost halve the cost of … and abandoning the competition was a false economy: "In choosing to save a relatively …