Next time you grumble that it's too much effort to seperate you plastic from your cans, imagine doing it as the bullets are flying over head
Composting under fire Anne Barr | 28th March 2009 News Composting War Recycling Indigenous Peoples Composting Indigenous Peoples Politics And Economics Waste And Recycling Archive_181.jpg Next time …
Tom partied in the fields of Somerset last weekend like the best of them, but the commercial and environmental impact of Glastonbury left a sour taste in his mouth
… magazine READ MORE... COMMENT I tried natural gardening. It was a disaster Idleness usually … Tom through most of life's trials. But not gardening. Oh no. Nature took one look and ran …
The thing is, I like urban farming. Rooftop gardens and window boxes excite me. Balconies filled with beans and tomatoes give me hope. Nonetheless, the ‘next big thing’ in urban horticulture has left me cold.
The third green revolution? Jim Thomas | 2nd April 2009 Comment Urban Farming Farmscrapers Third Green Revolution Dickson Despommier Urban Farming Urban Farming Climate Change Food And Farming …
An unreported war over natural resources in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories has led students from Bangor University to set up a radical eco-movement, Bustan al Qaraaqa, to address the issue. William Parry reports from Bethlehem
Can British activists solve Middle Eastern water conflicts using permaculture? William Parry | 25th January 2011 News Politics And Economics Water Natural Resources Farming Investigations …
Environmental activist Tamsin Omond is running for a Westminster seat on a platform of more collaborative democracy, and resurrecting the idea of the Commons as a shared public good
… to be made into seed bombs for guerilla gardening activities, or given out free to …
Mourning the loss of your beloved local shop? With a little help from the Community Shops Network, you can set up and run your own shop and post office...
Saving and rebuilding community shops Eifion Rees | 1st June 2010 Activism Food And Farming Society Politics And Economics How To Make A Difference Plunkett Foundation Community Shops Network CORE …
It's called the 'Cinderella economy'. You know it as the local, sustainable businesses that don't make the GDP figures soar, but do provide jobs and glue communities together...
… maybe. Yoga lessons, perhaps, hairdressing, gardening: so long as these aren’t carried out … arts or meditation), hairdressing, and gardening. People often achieve a greater …
Cities are at a crossroads - 'eco urbanists' want efficiency and artificial ecosystems; conventional designers want to maintain the best bits of our current urban spaces. Can they co-exist?
Can the green, 'hairy' city work with our existing, 'mineral' cities? Susannah Hagan | 19th April 2010 Comment Society Politics And Economics Urban City Town Design Planning blockcity.jpg Cities are …
The corporate market has become the institutional equivalent of a compulsive eater. It has a built-in hunger that cannot be filled, and it is hard to stop the damage within the framework of its own game.
The commons: an antidote to globalisation Jonathon Rowe | 1st April 2008 News Commons Community Alternative Economics Community Food Security International Development Environment Justice …
The Jewish National Fund UK has always denied a swirl of claims over its history and activities in the Middle East, including allegations of land grabbing Palestinian villages. But campaigners want the organisation stripped of its charitable status
UK charity dogged by 'monocultures and rights violations' claims The Ecologist | 7th October 2011 News Politics And Economics Investigations Forests Middle East sunthroughtrees.jpg The Jewish …
Throughout the evening, the CND advocated a course of ‘peace and sanity’. The message is unequivocal: weapons of mass destruction are the tools of war, not keepers of the peace.
CND "No Trident Replacement" Rally, March 14th 2007 David Hawkins | 16th March 2007 Comment Nuclear Trident CND Anti-war Protest Activism Parliament Square Campaigns Campaigns Depleted Uranium UK War …
The earthquake and nuclear meltdown in Japan last year compounded pre-existing issues like falling birth rates, fragmented families and shrinking communities. What does the future hold?
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'I can no longer sit back and allow terrorist infiltration, terrorist indoctrination, terrorist subversion, and the international terrorist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.' Commander George the Ripper Bush at Madison Square Garden
I’m the Reverend Billy Bill Talen | 1st October 2004 Comment America George Bush Republicans Peace Marchers Companies Consumerism Globalisation Boycotts Campaigns Human Rights Violations UK US …
Churches turned into pubs. Brooding Victorian warehouses replaced with sparkly identikit apartments. Family shops and independent cafes bankrupted by Starbucks, Tesco’s et al. When will we wake up to this grim, placeless reality?
Neighbourless Hoods Paul Kingsnorth | 1st December 2005 News Community Towns Ghost-town Tesco Castlemill British Waterways Bellway Homes Urban Living Community Politics And Economics Society …
Context is all in a comprehensive new anthology of verse with an environmental bent. These poems make sense of a disappearing world...
Earth Shattering: Ecopoems edited by Neil Astley David Hawkinns | 1st June 2008 Reviews Poetry Ecology Neil Astley Literature Risk Greenwash Sea Levels Deforestation Climate Change Environment …
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.
… through seasonal hunting, gathering, gardening and fishing. The Wichí are an …
The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet?
Will putting a price on nature put environmentalists out of a job? Dan Box | 5th July 2010 Comment Politics And Economics Natural World TEEB Finance danboxcomment.jpg The launch of the massive …
From chasing endangered parrots to hunting for the environmental holy grail with Friends of the Earth, one of Britain's pre-eminent eco campaigners wants to take his quest for a better, greener world to the halls of Westminster.
Dixe Wills meets a man on a mission
CASE STUDY: from campaign group to Westminster Dixe Wills | 20th March 2009 Activism Campaigning Case Study Tony Juniper Friends Of The Earth Parliament Cambridge Campaigns Animal Rights Species …
The World Bank’s 2008 World Development Report makes a grim prediction of what is to come:
Grow your own Tim Lang | 1st April 2008 News Urbanisation Self-sufficency Climate Change Food Waste Globalisation Food Security Local Food Production Food Security Food And Health Processed Foods …
When the Argentinian economy collapsed the country’s fat cats and bankrupt politicians melted into the woodwork, leaving the workers of Argentina to sort out the mess. Ben Backwell reports from Buenos Aires on their astonishing rise from the economic rubble.
Cooking-pot Revolution Ben Backwell | 1st May 2003 News Argentina Economic Crisis Worker's Rights International Development International Development Politics And Economics When the Argentinian …
In the run up to the British general election, Pat Thomas says the various party manifestos are starved of sound policies on food security and sustainability
None of the main parties seem to have a clue about food Pat Thomas | 21st April 2010 Comment Food And Farming Election 2010 Politics And Economics plate.jpg In the run up to the British general …
How one small English town took on a superstore - and won
The Tesco Chainstore Massacre Paul Kingsnorth | 1st May 2006 News Tesco Supermarket Scamrod Sheringham Supermarkets Tesco Green Lifestyle Protest Green Living Politics And Economics …
Confused when shopping? Wondering if, when you go into the nation’s favourite supermarket, you’re getting the maximum green bang for your buck? Andrew Simms’ latest book, Tescopoly, is a forensic investigation of all things Tesco – including the chain’s green and ethical credentials. Forget the hype, he says, Tesco’s most recent charm offensive, the Good Neighbour policy, launched in May 2006, isn’t good enough. Could Britain’s largest retailer do it better? Take a look at Tesco’s Plan A – then read Plan B
Andrew Simms' book, Tescopoly Andrew Simms | 7th June 2007 News Tesco Andrew Simms Supermarket Book Farming Supermarkets Tesco Agribusiness Factory Farming Organics Green Living Food And Farming …