ClientEarth lawyers have put 100 local authorities across England on notice over climate inaction.
… Local authorities 'on notice' Brendan Montague … ClientEarth lawyers have put 100 local authorities across England on notice … Lawyers from ClientEarth are putting 100 local authorities across England on notice, …
Rio Tinto has finally admitted that its local operator QIT Minerals Madagascar has breached an environmental buffer zone at its Mandena site.
… Rio Tinto has finally admitted that its local operator QIT Minerals Madagascar has … Besaroy with the risk of toxic effects on local water sources. Accidents happen Rio … has identified elevated uranium levels in the local water as high as 50 times the World …
Women’s organising in Kyrgyzstan serves as an example of the inseparable linkages between gender, environmental and economic justice.
… food. With virtually no representation in local government and little power in household … of gold. The mine has had many impacts on local life, including changes in the landscape … their climate resilience and preserve local varieties of apple, apricot and …
The antidote to being powerless alone is taking action together.
… 2019, a place for the hundreds of voices in local activism to work together. The network … and pushing for positive change both locally and nationally. In just one year, … issue, but decisions made right down to a local level can and do have an impact. …
Bolivian farmers have been resisting gas exploration in the invaluable Tariquía National Reserve - but they need international support.
… stands of sub-Andean mountain forests. Local resistance The forest is an important … in their state. All this has brought local activists powerful friends and vicious … small river Los Lapachos in Chiquiacá Norte, local farmer families gathered under a rugged …
The Gond tribe of Hasdeo Arand, the largest and oldest stretch of forest land in central India, is on the verge of losing its home in the face of coal mining.
… supplies that serve as bus-stops for the locals on either side of the road, cleaving … office of the Chattisgarh Bachao Andolan, a local organisation formed to combat coal … only recently conceded, after years of local activism on the subject. It might be a …
Green Wedmore is a community group that has big ambitions when it comes to tackling climate change.
… has also run five produce markets; created a local cookbook; held repair cafe’s; launched a … pick-up days; written forty articles for the local magazine; organised a pass-it-on book sharing scheme; held talks for local groups and installed an electric car …
Russia’s oil Goliaths have been devastating vast areas of natural landscape, and indigenous people’s lives, in their rush to extract the black gold that lies beneath. But as Georgy Borodyansky reports, a family of reindeer herders has taken them on.
… forest' have disappeared from the pages of local newspapers - it has simply ceased to … at Enel Uri: it is time the interests of the local population took priority over those of … so the oil company needed permission from the local people for changes to (i.e. …
The community of Machynlleth has gone beyond just investing in someone else’s wind turbine. They’ve clubbed together and planned, built and paid for one of their own.
… finding the necessary funding and getting the local community involved. I want them to amaze … drifting in. Farmers, shopkeepers, a host of local characters. Before long Rowlands began … round here.’ Not only was Marion Rees not local, but it transpires she was a member of a …
'We have local issues to tackle, a national role to play in providing best practice examples but also international responsibilities.'
… Strike Industrial Action demo.jpg 'We have local issues to tackle, a national role to … and the point of production and distribution. Locally we are moving in the right direction. … they lead to meaningful and radical change? Local issues And the issue isn’t just the …
On Monday Cameron was waxing lyrical on climate change at COP21 in Paris, writes Natalie Bennett. But his true colours will be revealed tomorrow as a long established anti-fracking camp in Cheshire is set for eviction: all part of the plan for a new generation of gas-fired power stations that will blow the UK's emissions targets.
… gas 'recovery' in the North Sea. Over-rule local councils in England that turn down … against the international tide. 85% of local people oppose fracking The Upton camp … On April 4th 2014 the protectors, with strong local community support, moved on to a field …
Call to ‘act local’ to stop plastics entering the UK’s rivers and canals & ending up in the world’s oceans.
… Makers 5868433_079bc0f1.jpg Call to ‘act local’ to stop plastics entering the UK’s … take action on their doorstep to make their local neighbourhood beautiful and help tackle … each year via its waterways. With the help of local communities this figure could be …
A ten-year campaign opposing a Shell gas pipeline in a remote cornor of Ireland is documented in a major new film - The Pipe - and has become a focal point for a community's right to oppose corporations and central government
… the planning system, with the result that local residents have been fighting it for more … the second-lowest crime rate in Ireland and locals looked on in horror as hundreds of … the jigsaw is the onshore pipeline. Thanks to local campaigners, Shell has been forced to …
Congolese Police have cracked down on peaceful, legal protests to keep a UK oil company out of Virunga National Park, important for its 200 mountain gorillas.
… protest began. Bantu Lukambo, President of local group IDPE said: "We were exercising … is also a World Heritage site. A threat to local livelihoods The planned oil exploration presents a threat to local people's livelihoods in the agricultural …
Filmmaker Lars Johansson talks to the Ecologist about the making of the film 'Poison Fire' and the curse of oil in the Niger Delta.
… national groups to produce video reports with local perspectives on how economic … short answer is that nobody really knows. The local, ecological effects of gas flaring in … Delta that can do even basic water analysis. Local people blame gas flaring for a wide …
Rural community fears 'extreme' and unconventional drilling for oil.
… Local resistance to extreme energy extraction … activity. Acid squeeze One of the things the local community is deeply fearful of is the … out the oil, sometimes under pressure. As a local county councillor told the meeting, …
Invasive species, exploitative land use, pollution and climate change threaten to turn the lush South Indian Nilgiris into a green desert.
… the 15 acre plot of land since a local NGO called EBR bought the area five … of urgency and irritation amongst concerned locals living in one of the biodiversity … slopes are covered by lush tea shrubs, where local women equipped with white cotton bags …
Our lives are now so dependent on oil that it is impossible to conceive of a world without it. Before long, however, we will have no choice. The sooner we start planning for that reality, and changing the way we live, the better our chance of survival.
… gives them a competitive edge over smaller, local stores. It also enables supermarkets and … unravel. Consumers will start to shop more locally to save petrol, and start to shop … out-of-town superstores, but have to turn to local distributors and local producers and …
More than 13.4 million English households currently do not get their kitchen scraps picked up separately from the black bin rubbish.
… Food A recent consultation showed that if all local authorities provided food waste … caddies into. Figures provided by 326 English local authorities to waste reduction body Wrap … for a small number of homes. A further 38 local authorities provide a system where …
Crude oil may be running out, but Brighton's transport revolution is powering up. Jan Goodey meets Tom Druitt, the driving force behind the Big Lemon Bus
… CASE STUDY: starting a local biofuel bus service Jan Goodey | 1st … that and the bureaucracy of dealing with the local traffic commissioner, who is more geared … that collects waste vegetable oil from local chip shops, modifies it and sells it to …
Mining group Rio Tinto has pulled back from sensitive environmental zone in Madagascar and admits there was no tailings dam.
… dam or lake protection feature to protect the local waterways where local people fish and collect water. The new … and its potentially toxic waste from the local estuary. No dam, no berm, no …
Meet the Bhutanese entrepreneur working on organic food production, heritage and education.
… women in processing and marketing of Bhutan’s local food treasures. The enterprise includes … organic food ingredients from a wide range of local products including dried fruit and … we have in Bhutan: very nutritious and tasty local food. You started your food business ten …
Pollution, potting and community action at Lyme Bay all demonstrate that we need to think synoptically about living systems.
… or less deserted apart from a small group of locals gathering in a back room. They are … surfers, museum volunteers, parents, local councillors, Transition-towners: and … in some waste-water treatment plants. The local water company, South West Water (SWW), …
Campaigners say it is an opportunity to consign opencast coal extraction ‘to the history books’
… bradley_demonstration_natalie_bennet_with_locals._credit_jackie_currie.jpg Campaigners … secretary. A judicial review brought by local residents today forced the secretary of … dynamite. It is far more destructive to the local environment than traditional mining …