Nuclear industry's need for subsidies rather than political opposition remains main obstacle to building of a new generation of power plants in the UK
… Finance, not politics, the main obstacle to nuclear, say … Ecologist | 14th May 2010 News Nuclear Energy Politics And Economics nuclearpower.jpg No … industry's need for subsidies rather than political opposition remains main obstacle to …
An ambitious but at times over-simplistic look at how environmental, political and economic crises will redraw the world map
… Change Global Warming Global Warring Wars Geopolitical Political Economic Crises global-warring.jpg … over-simplistic look at how environmental, political and economic crises will redraw the …
Newly elected MP Caroline Lucas said her party was now ready to 'take its rightful place in Parliament' after her landmark victory in yesterday's general election
… Green Party victory start of 'historic new political force' The Ecologist | 7th May 2010 News Green Party Politics And Economics Caroline Lucas Gm …
NGO groups targeting marginal seats to pressure candidates into raising the profile of climate change in their election campaigns
… | 7th April 2010 News Election Climate Change Politics And Economics christianaid.jpg NGO … focus on marginal seats where more than one political party could easily win the seat. … proposed by the campaign to be put to political candidates are: Will you commit to …
Former environment minister Michael Meacher on the place of humanity in the universe, intelligent design, the survival of the human race, Gaia theory and uncertainties over climate change
… Tom Levitt | 22nd July 2010 Comment Society Politics And Economics Natural World Religion … species. The question is whether there is the political leadership in countries to act on … principle. The issue is whether there is the political leadership to guide people. The …
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
… Smith | 1st April 2010 Activism Society Politics And Economics How To Make A … good When I was asked to get involved with a political party standing on the platform of … bring these ideas and this ethos into British politics is what led me to discover a plan to …
We've lost control of our spending and debt to international bond markets and whoever wins the election won't be able to take it back
… Bond markets, not politicians, control our future Dan Box | 29th April 2010 Comment Politics And Economics Money Finance … the election, the most powerful force in UK politics will be none of the political parties …
UK’s poor air quality is a bigger killer than passive smoking, road traffic accidents and obesity says parliamentary committee
… | 22nd March 2010 News Health Transport Politics And Economics Air Quality Nitrogen … could total as much as £300 million pounds. Political 'blame game' London was singled out …
Sceptic or realist? Bjorn Lomborg speaks to Tom Levitt about why his ideas on tackling climate change will actually help to solve the crisis
… about how we approach global warming - the political and policy ways we tackle global … which economically seems a poor strategy and politically seems infeasible - a much better … you can raise money. This is perhaps not politically correct but if it would do more …
Sewing is activism, says John Paul Flintoff, as he takes us through the politics and pleasures of this long lost skill
… Paul Flintoff, as he takes us through the politics and pleasures of this long lost skill … pies at him. He questions our dependence on political parties to solve our problems, … rather than dedicating our time to full blown political campaigning, is akin to ignoring the …
Lionel Badal was working on his undergraduate dissertation when he suddenly found himself privy to information that he knew must be made public
… 10th March 2010 News Peak Oil Iea Energy Oil Politics And Economics lionelbadal.jpg Lionel … the work of 22-year-old Lionel Badal, a politics student at Exeter University, that … set about trying to arrange interviews with politicians and figures working inside and …
Former editor of New Scientist and author of After The Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic on climategate, polar military activity and the icecap's chances
… and author of After The Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic on climategate, … with the arctic ice where anything that is politically plausible now will not save the … of the planet. After The Ice: Life, Death and Politics in the New Arctic by Alun Anderson …
Andres Carrasco's research linking a controversial herbicide with birth defects highlighted the potential health dangers posed by GM crop-spraying in Argentina – and led to violence and intimidation for those behind the study
… called for an independent investigation. A political hot potato Carrasco’s research was … dust on a library shelf. It has become a political hot potato: scientific confirmation …
21st century nuclear power needs a 21st century subsidy... no blank cheques this time - just an apparently green tweak to the emissions trading system, and voila!
… power Dan Box | 24th May 2010 Comment Energy Politics And Economics Nuclear Carbon … call it a tax David Cameron wasn't the first politician to promise the 'greenest government … this man was READ MORE... NEWS Finance, not politics, the main obstacle to nuclear, say …
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
… Mark Jansen | 8th December 2010 News Politics And Economics Finance Banks Carbon … are doomed. Low carbon energy That is why our politicians have resolved to create a Green … Monetary Fund. In this climate, British politicians will have to tread very carefully …
Former Director of the Tyndall Centre and a Professor at the University of East Anglia, Andrew Watkinson explains why 'a few loose sentences' in the IPCC report shouldn't change people's opinion of the science
… 2010 Comment Natural World Climate Change Politics And Economics Ecosystem Services … been undertaken in a vacuum, divorced from political and governance issues of a country. … disciplines, with the inclusion of the political economy. It is a way of doing …
Planning - a dull subject that has a direct impact on some of the most important areas of our lives. One proposal to speed up planning has just been scrapped by the new Government. What will replace it, asks Bibi Van Der Zee
… Bibi van der Zee | 25th May 2010 News Society Politics And Economics Planning Infrastructure … proposed] "Big Society" suggests that the politicians are going to radically reform the … forward, taking planning issues out of the political arena, but hopes that some of the …
The role of economics and the future of capitalism will be to preserve our natural resources rather than destroy them but the US may be missing the message, says economist Graciela Chichilnisky
… | 21st September 2010 Comment Carbon Markets Politics And Economics Capitalism … the old and the new. There is a heated political debate about whether to continue the … 2010 elections and will decide the nations’ political future for the next few years. The …
The waste warrior behind the You Tube hit and now book 'The Story of Stuff', on banning children's advertising, making manufacturers responsible for waste and shifting our values
… right now is the corporate dominance of the political system. The government could say … of reasons. For one, they're not creating political change. Of course you should … a bike and so on. But those things aren't political action. They are responsible house …
Current climate policy of emissions targets and trading will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing cheap, non-carbon energy, says new paper
… will not suceed and should be replaced by a 'politically attractive' one based on providing … investment in low-cost green energy would be politically attractive and have the contingent … benefit contingent upon other goals which are politically attractive and relentlessly …
Climate manipulation must be regulated at the UN level to avoid countries taking matters into their own hands, says a committee of MPs
… into geoengineering by the Royal Society. Political failure Environmental campaigners … interest in geoengineering was the result of political failure. ‘Scientists are …
Getting rid of the Sustainable Development Commission was a 'transparently vacuous' decision that exposes the Government's opposition to true sustainable development
… 2010 News Sustainability Sdc Jonathon Porritt Politics And Economics porritt.jpg Jonathon … Day: new watchdog chief on GM, nuclear and political jargon Will Day is still to prove …
The European Emissions Trading Scheme was always going to disappoint the NGOs who wanted a perfect climate solution, but simply bashing it ignores the progerss that can be made through small steps
… | 9th March 2010 Comment Climate Change Politics And Economics Carbon Markets Carbon … or to be more accurate, than what the political system was willing to accept. This … is an enormous success, especially from the political standpoint, but we seem to live in …
Author Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers
… Comment Climate Change Psychology Society Politics And Economics clivehamilton.jpg … to start thinking about how we can shift the political system so that the response to … Individuals as citizens - that is political actors - can be very effective …