They used to sleep beneath London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. Now a pioneering collaboration between the Southbank Centre and a housing association is giving a group of ex-homeless a chance to create a rooftop garden
… Homeless gardeners provide makeover for iconic … Biodiversity Community Gardening Ecotherapy Homeless Wild Flowers … a housing association is giving a group of ex-homeless a chance to create a rooftop garden …
Scavenging is on the rise in the US and is no longer the exclusive domain of the poor. Felicity Carus reports on San Francisco's attempts to close down this informal sector and its impact on a burgeoning recycling culture
… income to some of the city’s estimated 8,640 homeless people. Homeless men and women pushing shopping … But San Francisco’s scavengers are not all homeless or disaffected like Victor and …
One billion people could have been forced out of their homes by 2050 as a result of the pressures of climate change, a new report by development charity Christian Aid says.
… 1 billion homeless by 2050, says Christian Aid 14th May …
With bricks and mortar proving environmentally unsustainable, a dearth of affordable housing available, and charity Shelter maintaining that homelessness persists, could shipping containers be a solution?
… and charity Shelter maintaining that homelessness persists, could shipping … 1.1 million in the private sector. With UK homeless charity Shelter predicting that as many as 35,000 people could be homeless by Christmas, an eco-friendly …
Groups such as Dot Dot Dot and the Squash Campaign are pushing for workable solutions to the UK's housing crisis, but they are up against an anti-squatter media backlash. Laura Laker reports
… Politics & Economics Squatters Housing Homeless Government Property Rights How To … that many cannot afford decent housing. Homeless charity Crisis estimates up to 10,000 … make them uninhabitable in order to prevent homeless people using them for shelter.' He …
How can we stop the juggernauts of so-called progress from sweeping away every bit of individualism and community that well-run high streets bring us? John Bird wants to give you his card
… marketplace. The Big Issue is about bringing homeless people to the marketplace so that … sustain themselves. The marketplace helps the homeless become, like the rest of us, the … Irish family. He spent much of his youth homeless on the streets, and in and out of …
Inspiring businesses to reuse food that would have otherwise be sent to landfill, the pioneering group FareShare collects and distributes it to homeless shelters: feeding the needy, saving CO2 and diverting waste from landfill
… Food & Gardening Fareshare Food Waste Homeless Landfill Climate Change … FareShare collects and distributes it to homeless shelters: feeding the needy, saving …
As the new 'outbreak' film Contagion, starring Kate Winslet and Gwyneth Paltrow is released, The Ecologist reports on the book linking the threat of global disease pandemics and industrial animal farming
… by forest clearing from a mining company. The homeless bat then infects a pig, which is …
Food aid charities argue supermarket food waste could help prevent hunger in vulnerable people. Yet supermarkets' anaerobic digestion plans may eclipse food redistribution says Matilda Lee
… food redistributed for decades to homeless shelters and the like. But they exist … by store policy. They should seek out local homeless charities. Supermarkets have a …
Sugar may seem innocuous enough, but sweet-toothed Western consumers could be fuelling conflict between poor farming communities and big business with every spoonful. Sam Campbell reports from Phnom Penh
… food insecurity. Hundreds have been made homeless and haven’t received any …
Technology is constructive but also hugely destructive. It’s high time that we begin to think seriously – and innovatively – about tempering its damaging effects
… and charity Shelter maintaining that homelessness persists, could shipping …
Deep in rural Sussex at Wakehurst Place, in a large nature reserve of 500 acres of National Trust woodlands and lakes, stands the Kew Gardens Biological Research Centre. Sixty feet beneath is a nuclear bunker. This is the British National Doomsday vault, home to the UK’s Millennium Seed Bank (MSB). If apocalyptic disaster strikes, this bunker will hold key bio-scientists and all remaining plant life.
… among countless others, are currently homeless, having previously entered into a …
Belo Monte is just one of a dozen giant dam projects Brazil plans to build in the Amazon region in the coming decades and opens up the world's largest tropical rainforest to oil and mining exploration
… with the growth of urban occupations and homeless populations. 'With the installation …