Many people dismiss environmentalism as a middle-class luxury that few can afford. But in Mexico City a group of impoverished street punks are pioneering radical social alternatives because their survival depends on it. Holly Wren reports.
Like Flowers Breaking through the Cement Holly Wren | 1st April 2003 News Community Pollution Activism Mexico Urban Lan Boycotts Incineration Industrial Plastics Community Landfills International …
Why do we dispose of organic waste in landfill sites? Shouldn’t we – individuals, councils and businesses – all be using worms to compost it? By Janis Crawford.
Global Worming Janis Crawford | 1st April 2003 Ethical Living Composting Worms Gardening Landfill Landfills Community Recycling Green Living Waste And Recycling Archive_78.jpg Why do we dispose of …
Students in Finland are tearing down the barriers between sustainability and high fashion.
… been grown, is raw, has become off-cuts, is recycled and will be upcycled. They raid … Jettison Outi Luukko from Rester, which recycles waste textiles into new fabrics, told … though they are a mix, meaning they cannot be recycled. Shahriare Mahmood, the chief …
Our sick society and stupid economics are dragging the planet to the edge of apocalypse. Earth’s survival depends on a completely new way of thinking. By Kirkpatrick Sale
… and live a responsible environmental life; recycle, compost, ride a push-bike; but do it …
How pre-industrial societies and cultures mesh together with their host environments.
… with minerals and organic wastes continuously recycled into humus by fungi and bacteria, … animal and crop wastes were systematically recycled to maintain soil fertility. In his …
Costing over $1 billion, the Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam in Iceland is a hugely controversial project. Mark Lynas journeyed to the blasting face, hoping to work out for himself whether this industrial elephant is green or brilliant-white.
Damned Nation Mark Lynas | 1st December 2003 News ALCOA Dams Rivers Electricity Iceland Hydroel Dams Energy Archive_64.jpg Costing over $1 billion, the Karahnjukar hydroelectric dam in Iceland is a …
Twice as expensive as petrol, three times the price of milk, and 10,000 times more expensive than tap water. Is it worth it, and what impact is it having on our environment?
Bottled Water The Ecologist | 1st February 2003 News Water Nestle Perrier Danone Tap Water International Trade Water Conservation Clean Water Fresh Water Water Supplies Water Sources Plastics …
British Government urged to support circular economy as world hits Earth Overshoot Day.
Overshoot - or go circular Rebecca Speare-Cole | 2nd August 2023 | News Circular Economy Earth Overshoot Day Economics 51641969573_78e1458731_k.jpg British Government urged to support circular …
How do we stop the West Cumbria coal mine? Finance, law and workers’ organising on jobs.
Targeting insurers to end fossil fuels Ellen Rowbottom | 4th October 2023 | Comment Jobswashing Coal Action Network Money Rebellion Global Weekend Of Actions Travelers Chubb Hiscox Arch Markel …
Ros Coward reports from Murcia in southern Spain, the driest place in Europe, where tourism and intensive agriculture is draining its meagre water supplies and causing a growing environmental crisis.
… claim the water for these new developments is recycled. But at one new golf course in … no signs of an infrastructure for delivering recycled water and no sign of daily containers …
Expensive, polluting, unnatural and booming.
Jeremy Smith investigates the ‘death-care industry’
… cent was incinerated and just 9 per cent was recycled. For the vast majority of us what … having a brain abnormality up 5 per cent. Recycle your corpse But again, as with our …
How do we recalibrate our economies towards restorative ecologies?
The case for a smaller future Herbert Girardet | 17th February 2023 | Comment World Future Council Small Is The Future The Ecologist Club Of Rome EF Schumacher Small Is Beautiful Economics Editor’s …
Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise.
Promising the World, or Costing the Earth? The Ecologist | 1st May 2003 News Nanotechnology Science Technology Military Nanotechnology Science And Technology investigates.jpg Nanotechnology has the …
The great acceleration - in GDP, population, cities, travel, deforestation, pollution - is on some metrics stuttering. What does this mean for a just transition?
… as a closed system in which nutrients are recycled, must exist as “a flow system, …