The path to many green careers begins as a student. Here are the Ecologist's tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to go
Ecologist guide to courses Matilda Lee | 5th January 2011 Ethical Living Science & Technology Society Environmental Education Climate Change Garden Organic Eden Project Real Cool Futures …
The path to many green careers begins as a student. Here are the Ecologist's tips for ensuring that your degree or educational course takes you where you want to go
Ecologist guide to courses Matilda Lee | 5th January 2011 Ethical Living Science & Technology Society Environmental Education Climate Change Garden Organic Eden Project Real Cool Futures …
The EIA has been at the forefront of investigative campaigning for over 25 years, tackling the illegal wildlife trade, timber trafficking and ozone-depleting CFCs. Matilda Lee gets a debriefing
Environmental Investigation Agency: meet the original eco spooks Matilda Lee | 18th January 2011 Activism Natural World Wildlife Crime EIA Tiger Summit E-waste Tigers Ivory Trade CITES Mary Rice …
From asthma and allergies, diabetes and reproductive problems to cancer and obesity, environmental degradation plays a role... HEAL ensures our voices on these issues are heard in Brussels
CAMPAIGN PROFILE: Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL) Matilda Lee | 1st December 2010 Activism Health Climate Change HEAL Mercury Pesticides Cancer Carcinogens European Union MEPs healpic.jpg From …
The Earth Liberation Front targeted dozens of businesses they accused of destroying the environment. As a new film charting its rise and fall premieres in the US, Matilda Lee speaks to director Marshall Curry about the fine line between activism and terrorism
If a tree falls: the story behind the making of an American 'eco terrorist' group Matilda Lee | 22nd June 2011 Activism Campaigning Environmental Activism Earth Liberation Front Direct Action Just Do …
All you need to know to start putting your money where your mouth is
Ecologist guide to ethical investments Eifion Rees Matilda Lee | 5th November 2010 Ethical Living Politics And Economics Green Living Guides Ethical Finance Green Pensions Co-operative Investments …
All you need to know to start putting your money where your mouth is
Ecologist guide to ethical investments Eifion Rees Matilda Lee | 5th November 2010 Ethical Living Politics And Economics Green Living Guides Ethical Finance Green Pensions Co-operative Investments …
As if melting ice in Polar bears' Arctic habitat was not enough, Norwegian scientists have found that organic pollutants such as pesticide residues are disrupting their thyroid and endocrine systems, adding a further threat to the species' survival.
Polar bears at risk from pollution as well as warmth Tim Radford | 24th April 2015 News Toxics Pollution Ecology Oceans Waste Arctic Mammals polar-bears-cut.jpg As if melting ice in Polar bears' …
Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, tells Matilda Lee why an obsession with CO2 has distracted environmentalists, and why we may already be beyond the point of no return...
… | 9th December 2009 Comment Climate Change Environmentalism Culture Change Society … Paul Kingsnorth: What I’m suggesting is that environmentalism, which has become mainstream, … become more central to the movement. A lot of environmentalism now still acts as if humans …
What motivates people to act? Tom Crompton, WWF's point man on behaviour change, believes he has the answers. And they go against the grain of conventional campaigning...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Tom Crompton, Change Strategist at WWF-UK Matilda Lee | 8th February 2011 Activism Society How To Make A Difference Campaigning Activism WWF Climate Change Green Consumerism …
Mark Lynas, featured in Channel 4's recent and highly controversial documentary, 'What the green movement got wrong', tells Matilda Lee why he is not the pariah of the eco movement
Mark Lynas: 'More than half of greens agree with me on GM & nuclear' Matilda Lee | 15th November 2010 Comment Interviews Energy Climate Change Gm Nuclear Channel 4 'what The Green Movement Got Wrong' …
The increase in meat and dairy consumption is set to cause huge increases in greenhouse gases, reports Tim Radford. A shift to less animal-based diets would cut greenhouse gases, conserve forests and grasslands - and make us all healthier, with reduced obesity, diabetes and associated conditions.
Thanks to meat, farming emissions set for 80% rise Tim Radford | 1st December 2014 News Food Farming Climate Change Health meat-happy-pig-cut.jpg The increase in meat and dairy consumption is set to …
The founder of the carbon reduction charity Global Action Plan on past failures, launching the UK's first on-line carbon calculator and why we must work with the corporate sector to create change
… MAKE A DIFFERENCE Beyond white middle class environmentalism Akashi is a grassroots …
The A - Z of Eco Fashion Matilda Lee Laura Sevier | 10th January 2008 Ethical Living Clothes Fashion Green Lifestyle Green Living A-ZFASHION_OCT07_MAIN.jpg All you ever need to know about clothes. A …
Having survived cancer, biologist Sandra Steingraber wrote a book to expose its link to the environment. As the film version premieres in Europe, she tells the Ecologist why we must all take a stand on air, food and water pollution
Sandra Steingraber: There's a taboo about telling industry and agriculture that practices must change to prevent cancer Matilda Lee | 30th November 2010 Comment Health Climate Change Carcinogens …
'Deeper than skin' is the motto of ethical green beauty and skincare brand Madara which has received accolades from WWF
Madara: the luxury skincare range with social and environmental ethics Matilda Lee | 7th December 2011 Ethical Living Health Green Living Health And Beauty Madara Organic Skincare Preservatives …
Stella McCartney talks to Matilda Lee about designer activism and the release of her second 'eco collection'.
Fashion conscience: Stella McCartney Matilda Lee | 1st May 2009 Ethical Living Green Living Fashion Stella Mccartney Clothes stella_01.jpg Stella McCartney talks to Matilda Lee about designer …
Can lawyers really save the world? James Thornton from UK law firm ClientEarth believes they can - and is leading the way in achieving ecological justice
CAMPAIGN HERO: James Thornton of ClientEarth Matilda Lee | 6th December 2010 Activism Natural World ClientEarth James Thornton Lawyers Government Coal Clean Water Act NRDC Make A Difference …
A day of action is planned this Saturday to highlight the destructive impact of Canada's tar sands industry. In London, this includes a demo-fest at the Canadian High Commission
TAKE ACTION to stop Canadian tar sands Matilda Lee | 15th June 2011 Activism Climate Change & Energy Tar Sands Bp Shell RBS Alberta UK No Tar Sands Network Activism 1notarsands1.jpg A day of action …
As a new film encourages people to Just Do It, Matilda Lee looks at the future of eco-activism in the UK
Where next for eco-activism? Matilda Lee | 6th July 2011 Comment Climate Change And Energy Activism Just Do It UK Youth Climate Change Coalition Plane Stupid eco activism image.jpg As a new film …
London College of Fashion recently unveiled a dress that purifies polluted city air through a chemical reaction on the surface of the fabric
Ethical fashion takes a new direction with 'catalytic clothes' that purify polluted air Matilda Lee | 15th July 2011 Activism Science & Technology Air Pollution Culture Change Ethical Fashion London …
Environmental journalist Fred Pearce, author of the new book Peoplequake, on why overconsumption is the key issue, the need for relaxed immigration laws, and why men should look after children
Fred Pearce: overpopulation worries are a potentially racist distraction Matilda Lee | 2nd February 2010 Comment Interviews Society Fred Pearce PeopleQuake Overpopulation Population Over Consumption …
The Ecologist talks to Neil Kingsnorth about Friends of the Earth's most (and least) successful campaigns and why community groups are vital to the future of UK activism
CAMPAIGN HERO: Neil Kingsnorth, head of activism at Friends of the Earth Matilda Lee | 22nd March 2011 Activism Climate Change And Energy Activism Grassroots Friends Of The Earth Nuclear Energy …
Despite massive clearance of carbon-rich forests for palm oil, cattle ranching, soybeans and other cash crops, writes Tim Radford, a new study finds that the net volume of carbon stored in trees is increasing thanks to their growing numbers on grasslands, on abandoned farmland, and in China.
Flourishing savanna woodlands mean forests are still absorbing carbon Tim Radford | 18th May 2015 News Forests Climate Change woodland-australia-cut.jpg Despite massive clearance of carbon-rich …