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
… those currently sold in the UK. Suppressing innovation Any vitamin that is not on the … net effect of all this will be to kill future innovation. ‘The positive list locks us into …
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
… At that time the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills finally accepted this …
You've read about the Occupy Wall Street and London protests and you know about corporate greed (and the banking bail-out) but how can you do something about it?
… think about approaching forums the Finance Innovation Lab , run jointly by WWF and ICAEW, …
World leaders must act. We are drowning in promises.
… has taught us that extraordinary progress and innovation can emerge from human tragedy and … has taught us that extraordinary progress and innovation can emerge from human tragedy and …
As the bluetongue virus sinks its teeth into British livestock, there is one appalling certainty: like the outbreaks of Mad Cow Disease and foot-and-mouth before it, some farmers will see no way out, and take their own lives. Farmers in Britain are the profession second most likely to commit suicide (after, bizarrely, dentistry).
Farming despair Raj Patel | 1st November 2007 News India Suicides Poverty Debt World Bank Agriculture Farming Agribusiness Farming Urban Farming Famine Local Food Production Food Security Indigenous …
There's still money to be had for good environmental projects, but it's a fraction of what's being spent in other areas, says Harriet Williams
… sustainability blog WorldChanging , 'funds innovation that would otherwise never emerge, … Risk culture Good philanthropy is about innovation, creativity and taking risks – …
More than seven out of ten edible marine species in the EU are over-fished and coastal communities are dying. So you might think new draft reforms would help reverse this trend. Not so, says Victor Paul Borg, who investigates the impact of changes that the community fishermen themselves do not want
… catch quotas as a market mechanism to trigger innovation), achieving Maximum Sustainable … as a smart tool that would give impetus to innovation, and reduce catch-overcapacity and …
Ahead of the latest UN climate conference, leading academic Anthony Giddens explains why it's time to switch to smaller agreements between major world powers
… the issues without a fairly heavy dose of innovation. Both globally and nationally we should be spending to try and produce such innovation and even though you can't predict … we need to support hundreds of bottom-up innovations that are going on around the world …
Self-builders are no longer a niche segment of society: they are industrious, skilled, innovative individuals who should be helped to create vital, sustainable communities
We need a citizens' housing revolution Stephen Hill | 13th January 2010 Comment Green Living Politics And Economics Housing Building Construction Sustainability hardhat.jpg Self-builders are no …
Monsanto’s global website says: ‘Imagine innovative agriculture that creates "incredible" things today.’ Actually, I think most of us are more interested in ‘credible’ things when it comes to agriculture. Like food that people can trust is safe. And crops that meet the needs of the farmers that grow them. The Monsanto slogan used to be ‘food, health, hope’. As if this wasn’t absurd enough, it has now been changed to ‘Imagine™’. John Lennon must be turning in his grave.
Imagine…food without pesticides …seeds without patents …a future without Monsanto John Hepburn | 1st September 2004 Comment Monsanto In-built Pesticides Bacteria Genetical Monsanto Agribusiness …
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The outgoing chief of the Government's independent sustainability watchdog, Jonathon Porritt, has criticised the Treasury and Department for Business for a failure to advance the sustainable development agenda
… the Treasury and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS, formerly BERR) for …
How much would you have to be paid for each bullet loaded into a gun in a game of Russian Roulette? A runner-up in the Ecologist/nef essay competition...
… provided they are considered as only one innovation amongst many other areas which require innovation including education, law, business, …
Forty years ago this month, Richard Thompson Coon reported on a proposed oil pipeline that would run through a picturesque Welsh island. But have we learned our lesson and stopped destroying natural habitat for the sake of oil?
… In the past 40 years, technological innovation has led to the discovery of …
George Osborne pledged £1billion to a green bank that could help Britain reduce carbon emissions. But with low carbon technologies unproven, banks, institutions and energy companies are wary, meaning the venture may not attract the capital to make it viable
… A spokesman for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills says it aims to have the … is critical... we need a sensible, clever, innovation.' In a few short months we will …
Rebecca is an ordinary woman with extraordinary ambitions, inspiring people all over the world and making 'Shift Happen' through her charity that creates free educational films
Paradigm Shift: how one young activist uses documentary film to inspire change Sophie Laggan | 20th December 2011 Activism Politics And Economics Society Paradigm Shift Video Activism 1becks-bw.jpg …
New research has revealed that a lack of finance and political commitment lie at the heart of the slow take-up of renewables, as a UK think tank calls for cash for low-carbon technology to be ringfenced
Copenhagen success rests on cash and commitment The Ecologist | 10th July 2009 News Investigations Science And Technology Climate Change Politics And Economics IPPR G8 Italy Global Climate Network US …
In February a report by George W Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) suggested that fast food workers might in the future be classified as manufacturing workers. A CEA report asked: ‘When a fast-food restaurant sells a hamburger, for example, is it providing a “service”, or is it combining inputs to “manufacture’ a product?’
… commercial restaurant kitchen was the simple innovation responsible for Ronald McDonald’s …
High-street customers could be subsidising the role of Barclays Capital in driving up global food prices and leaving millions facing hunger and malnutrition, says campaign group. Tom Levitt reports
Barclays 'making up to £340 million' on food price speculation Tom Levitt | 31st March 2011 News Food And Farming Barclays Food Speculation Politics And Economics barclays-banner.jpg Investment banks …
Poland is about to open its doors to an unprecedented dash for gas. But with multinational energy companies circling and widespread fracking about to begin, people and the environment are in the firing line. Andrew Wasley reports from Gdansk
… curtailed through a combination of technology innovation and smart regulation,” Faulkner …