Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse. Earth’s survival depends on a completely new way of thinking. By Kirkpatrick Sale
An Illusion of Progress Kirkpatrick Sale | 1st July 2003 News Economics Paradigm Globalisation Finance Climate Change Society Archive.jpg Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet …
Russia’s zapovedniks are some of the world’s most pristine wildernesses. For 70 years they were protected ruthlessly by the Soviet system, but recently they have fallen prey to Putin, the World Bank and ecotourists. Paul Webster reports on their plight
The Wild Wild East: Russia's Zapovedniks Paul Webster | 1st February 2003 News Russia Wilderness World Bank Ecotourism International Development International Development Consumerism World Bank …
Paul Kingsnorth talks to Stephanie Roth, the former Ecologist campaigns editor who has
just been awarded the 'environmental movement's Nobel prize' for risking life and limb
to prevent the exploitation of the largest gold reserves in Europe
Steffi the Vampire Slayer PAUL KINGSNORTH | 1st June 2005 News Rosia Monana Romania Frank Timis Stephanie Roth Goldman Environmental Prize Community Pollution Society VAMPIRE_JUN05_MAIN.jpg Paul …
Receiving the Global Environment Citizen Award in December, US television journalist Bill Moyers warned of the threat posed to the planet by America’s religious right. This is an abridged version of his speech
With God on their side Bill Moyers | 1st May 2005 Comment Christian Fundamentalists Media Global Environment Citizen Award US Religion Politics And Economics Society GODONSIDE_MAY05_MAIN.jpg …
In September the World Trade Organisation will be holding its fifth ministerial conference in Cancun, Mexico. Simon Retallack explains what is at stake.
World Sold Simon Retallack | 1st June 2003 News World Trade Organization Economics Free Trade Free Trade Globalisation Politics And Economics investigates.jpg In September the World Trade …
School dinners by McDonald’s. Corporations taking countries to court because their environmental regulations are ‘too tough’. The BBC sold to Rupert Murdoch. Paul Kingsnorth explains why we should be very worried by what is about to go on behind the closed doors of Cancun.
Cancun: Why Should You Care? Paul Kingsnorth | 1st June 2003 News World Trade Organization Free Trade Economics G Free Trade Globalisation Politics And Economics investigates.jpg School dinners by …
The Ecologist goes inside the workings of Smithfield to reveal the true horrors of its pig production business
Smithfield Foods: the truth behind its pigs and factories Robert Kennedy Jr | 1st December 2003 News Smithfield Foods Farming Pig Farming Factory Farming Poland Agribusiness Pork Animal Abuse Factory …
The GM public debate, which runs throughout June and July, is the public’s chance to express any concerns it may have over the growing of GM crops in Britain. Andy Rowell explains why your participation is vital
Debate, What Debate? Andy Rowell | 1st July 2003 News Gm GM Crops Public Participation Industrial Farming Gm Products UK Community Food Chain Biotechnology Biotechnology Food And Farming Health …
Could the latest type of tidal-power generator be environmentally benign and deliver cheap, dependable and sustainable energy?
Tidal Electric’s offshore project The Ecologist | 1st July 2003 News Tidal Power Sustainable Energy France Currents Nova Scotia Tidal Energy Water Wheels Companies Carbon Dioxide Hydrogen Nuclear Oil …
Myth number 7: Industrial agriculture benefits the environment and wildlife
Silent Earth Andrew Kimbell | 1st June 2003 News Industrial Agriculture Natural World Diversity Agribusiness Factory Farming Natural World Food And Farming Politics And Economics Science And …
In the penultimate extract from Fatal Harvest’s demolition of agribusiness disinformation, The Ecologist assesses the claim that biotechnology will solve industrial agriculture’s ills.
Engineering Hunger Andrew Kimbrell | 1st May 2003 News Agriculture Food Shortage Biotechnology Food Security Biotechnology Food And Farming Politics And Economics Science And Technology In the …
If you split post-operative patients into two groups, giving one a view of trees and the other a view of a brick wall, the group that was exposed to the trees will need fewer painkillers, develop fewer complications and will
check themselves out of hospital more quickly than the group with the urban view. Isn't it time to accept that some of the distress we currently feel is tied to the world beyond the consulting room, to this planet of ours that's
become so stripped and bare?
Greening the Blues Emily White | 1st October 2005 News Depression Recovery Green Blue Environment Mood Green Lifestyle Mental Health Natural World Health Society Archive_93.jpg If you split …
If a majority of US citizens support action on climate change, how does their government get away with ignoring them?
Global warming and the failure of the US media Howard Friel | 1st July 2005 News Press New York Times Journalism Climate Change Politics And Economics All-Georges-men_MAIN.jpg If a majority of US …
Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
Global Worming Janis Crawford | 1st April 2003 Ethical Living Composting Worms Gardening Landfill Landfills Community Recycling Green Living Waste And Recycling Archive_78.jpg Why do we dispose of …
Myth Number 5: INDUSTRIAL AGRICULTURE IS EFFICIENT
Bigger But Not Better Andrew Kimbrell | 1st April 2003 News Industrial Farming Agriculture Local Economy Community Small Farms EU Farming Agribusiness Animal Husbandry Factory Farming Agribusiness …
A Bill drafted by environmental groups and community organisations to make the places we live more sustainable and reverse community decline. But it will only become law with massive grass roots support - that means you!.....
People power: support the campaign for the Sustainable Communities Bill LOCAL WORKS | 2nd December 2005 Activism Campaigning Local Works Local MPs Community Society Archive_183.jpg A Bill drafted by …
Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise.
Promising the World, or Costing the Earth? The Ecologist | 1st May 2003 News Nanotechnology Science Technology Military Nanotechnology Science And Technology investigates.jpg Nanotechnology has the …
Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for producing food, fuel, medicine, paper, plastics and even dynamite – the most wasteful thing you could probably do with hemp is smoke it. Jake Bowers describes hemp’s potential to transform agriculture and the plant’s demonisation by huge and competing industrial interests
Seeds of Hope Jake Bowers | 1st May 2003 News Hemp Agriculture Native Sovereignty Organic Agriculture Indigenous Peoples Agribusiness Food And Farming Considering its estimated 25,000-plus uses – for …
Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports.
… Society Archive_21.jpg Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that …
Can changing the words we use to talk about the environment affect the way we behave?
Give place a chance Malcolm Tait | 1st June 2005 Comment Place Environment Environmental Comments And Analysis Natural World Politics And Economics Society Can changing the words we use to talk about …
It swam the oceans when dinosaurs walked the earth. Now our hunger for tuna means the Pacific leatherback turtle could be extinct within 10 years.
100,000,000 years old… 10 years left to live Robert Ovetz | 1st March 2003 Other Sea Turtle Longlines Leatherback Tuna Swordfis Fishing Crisis Natural World Archive_53.jpg It swam the oceans when …
Anyone serious about making poverty history needs to understand where poverty actually comes from and what it really is.
New Emperors, Old Clothes Vandana Shiva | 1st July 2005 Comment Poverty Famine The End Of Poverty Third World Jeffrey Sachs Free Trade Famine Human Rights Violations Famine Society Archive_80.jpg …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
Blood is Thicker... Ros Coward | 1st February 2003 News Murcia Spain Europe Intensive Agriculture Tour Consumerism Drought Fresh Water Agribusiness Famine International Development International …
The adverts tell you the company’s green. The Ecologist tells you the truth.
Behind the lies: Shell The Ecologist | 1st March 2003 Ethical Living Shell Oil Global Warming Greenhouse Gas Emissio Companies Oil Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Comments And Analysis Climate Change …