Encouraging your children to grow their own food is fun and educational, writes SCOTT JENKINS
… Jenkins | 23rd August 2018 Ethical Living Gardening Children Teaching Crafting Food Growing gardening-with-kids.jpg Encouraging your … by late June. Enjoying food I was hooked on gardening and I wanted to do my best to make …
Neonicotinoid chemicals used as chemicals came under European Union restrictions five years ago - but our cities' bees are still being bombarded, writes BRENDAN MONTAGUE
Pesticide ban is failing to protect suburban bee populations Brendan Montague | 25th July 2018 News Bees Pesticides Neonicotinoid bees_collecting_pollen_2004-08-14.jpg Neonicotinoid chemicals used as …
Architects, designers and horticulturalists are working together to develop edible and environmentally friendly 'living walls' in cities throughout the world.
… of evergreen and annual edibles.” Vertical gardening Since Chelsea ended, many countries … Coronado proves how accessible vertical gardening can be, whatever your space. Many of …
Gardeners across Britain are being asked to earn their stripes by joining the Great British Bee Count and help our threatened pollinators. Bees are good for flowers - and also support our farmers, argues EMI MURPHY of Friends of the Earth
… up with some of the UK’s leading wildlife and gardening experts such as Kate Bradbury and …
Butterflies were once a common sight in Britain, but they are declining year after year. What is happening to our butterfly population and why does it matter, asks CLIVE HARRIS
From school dinners to farmers' markets and GM crops, SATISH KUMAR explains why our relationship with food is so important and what he thinks makes food really wholesome.
… mother would say. Ever since, I have enjoyed gardening and cooking. When I was living in a … of theory; students learn about organic gardening, permaculture, agroecology and …
The Beast of the East has dumped snow all across Britain just as we should be looking ahead to Spring. The RSPB has today warned that birds will struggle to cope with the plummeting temperatures and urges people to give them a helping hand by providing food and shelter. CATHERINE HARTE reports
RSPB warns birds are at serious risk from freezing weather conditions Catherine Harte | 27th February 2018 News RSPB Snow freezing_temperatures.jpg The Beast of the East has dumped snow all across …
New guidance on building hedgehogs the perfect home has been published by the British Hedgehog Preservation Society (BHPS) and People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES), based on last year's Hedgehog Housing Census. MARIANNE BROOKER reports
The secrets to creating a hedgehog's perfect home Brendan Montague | 2nd August 2018 Ethical Living Hedgehogs Endangered Species hedgehog-child-3070175_960_720.jpg New guidance on building hedgehogs …
Sadiq Khan is inviting Londoners, schools and local community groups to apply for thousands of free trees.
Londoners offered 49,000 free trees Marianne Brooker | 8th October 2018 News London Mayor Of London Trees Urban Planting unknown.jpg Sadiq Khan is inviting Londoners, schools and local community …
The famous and somewhat abstract Beatles lyric reflects on "a soap impression of his wife" being donated to the National Trust. But what the charity really needs is hard currency - and in the next few days its average membership fee is about to go up 50p. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Conservationists need to join the National Trust in the next few days to avoid membership price hike Brendan Montague | 27th February 2018 News National Trust Membership Charities Austerity …
Joanne has given up the conventional life of work, shop, drop and is now growing and scavenging her own food and living as simply as possible.
Why I gave up work, shopping and using money Joanne Nemeth | 24th January 2018 Ethical Living Recycled Money Climate Change _dsc2744.jpg Joanne has given up the conventional life of work, shop, drop …
Youth campaigners taking part in This Is Zero Hour have already had a global impact. BELLA LACK, in her first article for The Ecologist, explains why she took part in the London protest and why empathy - with humans and animals - and hope are central to our success
'I want to help create a paradigm shift in humanity’s approach to climate' Bella Lack | 27th July 2018 Comment Climate Change This Is Zero Hour Born Free Foundation zerohour-bigsign.jpg Youth …
As uncertainty shrouds our planet’s future. A resurgence of religious thought and action is underway. As part of our Voices for Nature series, JAKE LLOYD explores how three faith-based organisations are reimagining or rediscovering ways for earth’s four billion Jewish, Christian and Muslim people to repair their relationship with nature
Bridging the gap between the three major faiths and nature Jake Lloyd | 18th April 2018 Comment Faith supplicating_pilgrim_at_masjid_al_haram._mecca_saudi_arabia.jpg As uncertainty shrouds our …
Rural policing is overstretched and under-resoursed, and the countryside's wildlife could be suffering as a result. LESLEY DOCKSEY reports
Dorset leads the way in wildlife policing Lesley Docksey | 11th September 2018 Comment Wildlife Countryside Police badger-2030975_960_720.jpg Rural policing is overstretched and under-resoursed, and …
Adam Smith, the author of The Wealth of Nations, is sometimes credited as the first political economist and many of his followers today advocate free market, laissez-faire, policy. Here Dr ROBERT BIEL argues that Smith was also an early systems theorist - but also sets out why Smith's theory and the system he described are a threat to our ecology
… Fukuoka , and his notion of ‘do-nothing gardening’, whereby we let the system work for … the question is: why is laissez-faire okay in gardening and not in economics?! I’d answer …
Springwatch Unsprung presenter Lindsey Chapman talks poetry, Blue Planet II and why we need to amplify diverse voices in the fight against climate change in the first of our new Voices for Nature interview series from our nature editor ELIZABETH WAINWRIGHT
Springwatch Unsprung star Lindsey Chapman talks about the importance of immersing in and imagining nature Elizabeth Wainwright | 10th January 2018 Ethical Living Voices For Nature Springwatch Blue …
The Wildlife Trusts’ month-long national nature challenge begins on Friday, 1 June 2018. An estimated 250,000 people took part last year, pledging to do something wild every day throughout the month. Already 54,500 people, schools and workplaces have signed up throughout the UK. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
Stars of stage and screen back national nature challenge 30 Days Wild Brendan Montague | 31st May 2018 News 30 Days Wild Gillian Burke The Wildlife Trust Abi Elphinstone Alex Gregory …
Today, 85 percent of the UK opposes hunting. Earlier this year Theresa May, the prime minister, backtracked on giving parliament a vote on overturning the fox hunting ban. Yet illegal hunting is still taking place. The animal welfare group League Against Cruel Sports now says the Hunting Act needs to be strengthened. CATHERINE HARTE reports
Illegal hunting still tearing British wildlife apart, says animal welfare group Catherine Harte | 10th April 2018 News League Against Cruel Sports Illegal Hunting Trail Hunting …
Elephants are sublime creatures. But in Thailand they are forced to undergo Phajaan, the breaking of the spirit of the elephant - so that they will submit to the wishes of tourists. BELLA LACK, an ambassador for the Born Free Foundation, is exposing this cruel practice
Tourism and the torture of our sublime elephants Bella Lack | 20th August 2018 Comment Tourism Elephants Born Free Foundation Animal Cruelty screen_shot_2018-08-20_at_09.03.20.jpg Elephants are …
Regenerating scrub and wood pasture produces astonishing ecosystem recovery – seeds of hope from this weekend’s Tree Conference.
Second nature: an adventure into rewilding Isabella Tree | 19th October 2018 Comment Rewilding Forestry Trees Ecosystem xwu1bkta.jpg Regenerating scrub and wood pasture produces astonishing ecosystem …
Farmer and activist Hector Christie marches into Tesco and Asda to 'round up the Round Up' to protest the use of carcinogenic ingredient - and is totally stunned by how the staff in one North Devon superstore respond. BRENDAN MONTAGUE reports
The totally different responses from Asda and Tesco to Round Up 'micro protest' Brendan Montague | 25th May 2018 Activism Round Up Monsanto Cancer Tesco Asda screen_shot_2018-05-25_at_12.06.27.jpg …
Food campaigner Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall tells OLIVER TICKELL why he’s so vociferous about vegetables
Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is making the case for going greens Oliver Tickell | 6th July 2018 Ethical Living Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall 3577391361_da4d7c140f_z.jpg Food campaigner Hugh …
An ambitious new seed sovereignty programme takes root in the UK & Ireland, reports ROWAN PHILLIMORE.
A food revolution starts with a seed Rowan Phillimore | 1st August 2018 News Seeds Food Sovereignty Gaia Foundation spring-young-leaves-2404083_960_720.jpg An ambitious new seed sovereignty programme …
Permaculture Magazine is launching a competition with £20,000 in prize money to celebrate the rise in the permaculture movement across the globe. TONY ROLLINSON finds out more
Excitement grows as prize for permaculture projects announced Tony Rollinson | 27th March 2018 Ethical Living Permaculture Permaculture Magazine Prize Community Projects …