Book review: Martin Dorey's No.More.Plastic. doesn't offer the sustainable, long-term solutions we need.
Is ditching plastic obtainable - and desirable? Oliver Tickell | 15th November 2018 News Plastic Waste And Recycling Pollution Waste Disposal Resurgence & Ecologist garbage-2729608_480.jpg Book …
The latest salvo in the battle over Africa's seed systems has been fired, writes Stephen Greenberg, with the Gates Foundation and USAID playing puppet-masters to Africa's governments - now meeting in Addis Ababa - as they drive forward corporation-friendly seed regulations that exclude and marginalize the small farmers whose seeds and labour feed the continent.
… conditions. Farmers know the quality of 'recycled' seed, selected and saved from their …
The European Commission has dropped measures to improve air quality and reduce waste from its work plan for 2015 - instead 'cutting red tape' and prioritizing 'jobs, growth, investment' at all costs.
Commission dumps eco-initiatives in 2015 work plan Oliver Tickell | 16th December 2014 News Pollution Waste EU Law Politics rubbish-havering-cut.jpg The European Commission has dropped measures to …
The world is in the grip of a structural war against people, land, economies and ecosystems, writes Colin Todhunter. It is being waged by a quartet of organised criminal interests bent on monopolizing energy, money, food and violence across the globe. But a deep-rooted resistance against their 'neoliberal' doctrine of death and destruction is fighting back.
Arms, agribusiness, finance and fossil fuels: the four horsemen of the neoliberal Apocalypse Colin Todhunter | 15th February 2016 News Food Farming Finance USA Energy 4-horsemen-cut.jpg The world is …
The threat to nature is now so severe it is beginning to threaten human existence. Tony Juniper, the author, campaigner and newly appointed campaigns director at WWF UK, talks to OLIVER TICKELL about the vital role nature plays in our very existence and how we abuse it at our peril
Transforming the way we see nature - dispatches from earth’s most vital frontlines Oliver Tickell | 24th April 2018 Comment Tony Juniper WWF-UK Biodiversity Food Security ecologist_mission_0.jpg The …
Bhaskar Save, the 'Gandhi of natural farming', died last year after a lifetime of organic growing and determined campaigning against the destruction of India's traditional, sustainable agriculture, writes Colin Todhunter. His 2006 open letter, published here, sets out a devastating critique of industrial agriculture and its impacts, and an eloquent and timely agroecological manifesto.
… the ventilated quality of the soil, and recycle all life-ebbed biomass into … less organic matter was locally available to recycle the fertility of the soil, leading to …
The EU faces a choice: a green, democratic future of clean prosperity and social justice? Or a dirty future of corporate domination with resurgent nuclear power, expanding fossil fuels, GMO agriculture and weak human and environmental protection? Junckers' Commission represents the latter. We must assert our own vision - or there will be little worth staying in for.
Europe on the brink - green future or industrial wasteland? Oliver Tickell | 12th December 2014 Comment EU UK Nuclear Natural World Trade Finance euro-comm-cut.jpg The EU faces a choice: a green, …
Innovative research is uncovering previously unknown species in deep seas vulnerable to over-fishing, pollution and habitat destruction.
Novel ecosystems in the deep sea Oliver Tickell | 24th October 2018 News Resurgence & Ecologist Marine Conservation Marine Biology Pollution Fishing screen_shot_2018-10-23_at_11.12.56.png Innovative …
The Gates Foundation - widely assumed to be 'doing good', is imposing a neoliberal model of development and corporate domination that's opening up Africa's agriculture to land and seed-grabbing global agribusiness, writes Colin Todhunter. In the process it is foreclosing on the real solutions - enhancing food security, food sovereignty and the move to agroecological farming.
Gates Foundation is spearheading the neoliberal plunder of African agriculture Colin Todhunter | 21st January 2016 News Africa Farming Corporations Development GMOs Seeds bill-melinda-cut.jpg The …
Agroecology is key to retaking control over food, farming and land from the 'monstrous machine' of agribusiness, biotech, big finance and 'free trade', writes Colin Todhunter, as it represents a truly viable alternative to agriculture for corporate profit. But such are the powers ranged against the world's small farmers that it must be supported by a broad-based, global people's movement.
… less organic matter was locally available to recycle the fertility of the soil, leading to …