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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
If you are one of the many millions of people who rely on vitamins and supplements to maintain their health and conquer illness, it’s time for you to get active. The Ecologist explains why
Hidden Agenda The Ecologist | 1st June 2003 News Vitamins Health Supplements Pharmaceutical Industry Supplements Holistic Medicine Allergies Supplements Health Politics And Economics Archive_99.jpg …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
Say It Without Flowers Venetia Hargreaves-Allen | 1st October 2003 News Cut Flowers Flower Miles Pesticides Slave Labour Kenya Toxic Chemicals Agriculture Farming Water Waste Wages Labour Unions …
In the 1930s US dentist Weston Price travelled the world to study the diets of ‘primitive’ peoples. He found a startling lack of disease and proof that a system of environmentally-friendly local food production is the best way to ensure human health.
Nasty, Brutish & Short Sally Fallon | 1st July 2003 News Primitive Diets Traditional Diets Weston Price Diet And Disease Daily Diet Vegetarianism Local Food Health Vegetarianism And Veganism Food And …
Why use expensive, damaging pesticides to kill insects? The humble bat will happily eat 1,200 an hour for free
Bats The Ecologist | 1st July 2003 News Pesticides Bats Mosquitoes Insects Farming Farming Natural World investigates.jpg Why use expensive, damaging pesticides to kill insects? The humble bat will …
Costing over $1 billion, the Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam in Iceland is a hugely controversial project. Mark Lynas journeyed to the blasting face, hoping to work out for himself whether this industrial elephant is green or brilliant-white.
Damned Nation Mark Lynas | 1st December 2003 News ALCOA Dams Rivers Electricity Iceland Hydroel Dams Energy Archive_64.jpg Costing over $1 billion, the Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam in Iceland is a …
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.
Leapfrogging the Law Dr John Palmer | 1st June 2003 News Tribal Protest Indigneous People Deforestation Forests Indigenous Peoples Climate Change Natural World Politics And Economics investigates.jpg …
After years of failing to make its modified products do its bidding, the biotech industry is changing tack – now its modifying the protestors. Jonathan Matthews reports from South Africa
Modifying protests: how the biotech industry is garnering support Jonathan Matthews | 1st February 2003 News Biotechnology Gm Agriculture Organic Farming Biotechnology Biotechnology Gm Products …
Last month the Food Standards Agency declared that eating organic chickens increases risk of campylobacter poisoning. So what?
Flawed Research The Ecologist | 1st February 2003 News Campylobacter Organic Food Chicken Food Standar Agribusiness Organics Organics Food And Health Farming Animal Husbandry Factory Farming …
No more disability. Brain implants to boost intelligence. Ageing counteracted. The next stage of evolution or a nightmare we can never wake up from? Jim Thomas on ‘converging technology’.
Future Perfect? Jim Thomas | 1st May 2003 News Nanotechnology Science Technology Companies Nanotechnology Science And Technology No more disability. Brain implants to boost intelligence. Ageing …
They build masterfully constructed homes, have a brilliantly regulated social order, are essential to sustaining the environment and are playing a vital role in sustainable development projects.
More Than Honey Kate Atkins | 1st May 2003 News Africa Bee-keeping Development Honey Sustainab International Development Natural World They build masterfully constructed homes, have a brilliantly …