A deal to give up 500,000 acres of public lands in Utah to the tar sands industry in return for 1.5 million acres of industry is a sacrifice too far, writes Alexander Reid Ross, as it disclaims the wider costs of massive water use and contamination in the headwaters of the Colorado River, already seriously stressed by drought.
… Wilderness Society's 'Grand Compromise' is a … seriously stressed by drought. The Wilderness Society is celebrating with the Southern Utah … this, so it's not a surprise." The Wilderness Society is shy about discussing the impacts of …
Easter is a time when - chocolate munching aside - it's still possible to take a step back from consumer-capitalism, writes Frederick Trainer, and pause to think where it's getting us. The sad fact is that so long as society is driven by consumerism, our society can never be ecologically sustainable or just.
… Trainer | 3rd April 2015 Comment Consumerism Society Green Economy Economics … getting us. The sad fact is that so long as society is driven by consumerism, our society can never be ecologically sustainable …
A 1971 editorial from the ecologist founding editor Edward Goldsmith on how our society is becoming ever more addicted to gimmicks intended to ensure our survival in ever less favourable conditions
… Food And Health Allergies Pesticides Drugs Society Archive_17.jpg A 1971 editorial from … founding editor Edward Goldsmith on how our society is becoming ever more addicted to … to be isolated phenomena. The sort of society that produces them is also likely to …
Mining corporations, politicians and big NGOs are meeting in London today to plan the future of extractive industries in Africa, write Nnimmo Bassey & Sheila Berry. Absent African civil society and impacted communities, delegates are setting an agenda for 'resource-led development' that will cook the continent in the greenhouse gases of its plundered oil, gas and coal.
… Bassey & Sheila Berry. Absent African civil society and impacted communities, delegates … is our environment. Designed to exclude civil society? That's how it looks By hosting this … prevented the participation of African civil society and community members. In doing so, …
Who needs nature when you can manufacture a superior, ersatz substitute?
… Consumerism Philosophy Consumerism Community Society Archive_180.jpg Who needs nature when … the primal ‘I want’, have been seduced by a society organising around consumption and … history, has spread through the rest of our society until we are hemmed in by fakes on …
Our economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, the that we seek our spiritual satisfaction in consumption…
… Economics Pollution Science And Technology Society Landfill-Main-NS.jpg Our economy … eloquent paean to our juggernaut, throwaway society in 1955. Just 18 months ago President … products? And if they can design a disposable society, why can’t they design a sustainable …
What on earth are we thinking when we go into shops and buy lots of pointless stuff we just don’t need? John Naish says it’s not so much what’s on our minds, but which brain we use when we spend
… planet and that earning and consuming above society’s median levels brings no greater contentment. But still society strives ever harder. Even in the midst … could enable us to become a neuro-literate society. But given the way we currently over …
The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' - and this can continue forever because we're clever little apes who can solve any problem, writes Paul Mobbs. That hubris, in the face of insurmountable ecological limits, will be our collective downfall.
… 2016 Comment Consumerism Climate Change Society Economics everything-must-go-cut.jpg … The greatest myth of the consumer society is that modern lifestyles are 'normal' … existential terror that without growth human society as we know it would collapse. Green …
Over in Davos world leaders are desperately trying to find a 'fourth industrial revolution' to keep the 'growth' juggernaut rolling, write Bennet Francis & Rupert Read. But their efforts are doomed: the real challenge we face is to build a healthy, more equal society and a green, sustainable future for us all.
… we face is to build a healthy, more equal society and a green, sustainable future for us … them jobless and indebted, the richest in society only increased their wealth. … - growth to support the very fabric of our society, both our vital needs - pensions, …
Ever since the 1970s we have lived with the growing awareness that our ecosystem is fragile and the perpetual exploitation of our natural resources impossible. By the late 1980s, even The Sun newspaper had its own green correspondent. Everything we buy, use and throw away has an impact somewhere on the ecological continuum, and nowadays the most bullish Western consumers’ consciences are regularly punctured by shards of eco-worry. We also increasingly realise that working ever harder for more possessions, more options, more stuff, doesn’t tend to make us more content.
… Consumerism Science And Technology Society Green Living_45.jpg Ever since the … and depression. Lifestyle pundits blame ‘society’ or the Government. Some say it’s a … To mask this possibility, we have created a society that proffers us clothes to transform …
Gard Binney examines the need for an alternative to the dominant development paradigm of globalisation.
… Economics Green Living Politics And Economics Society Archive_154.jpg Gard Binney examines … arises: from what to what? From an agrarian society steeped in centuries-old communal … (read: white, Christian and capitalist) society. One need only read the recent …
We have a problem, writes Samuel Alexander. Even the most eco-friendly rich world lifestyles are overconsuming resources and over-dumping wastes. To put us on track to 'single planet living' will mean far deeper changes than any yet envisaged, including deliberate 'degrowth'' and the abandonment of consumer culture.
… | 5th July 2015 Comment Green Economy Society Consumerism Climate Change Population … makes upon those ecosystems. A sustainable society is one that operates within the … is Research fellow, Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of …
The exuberance of childhood celebrated in books such as Just William is now frowned upon as inappropriate behaviour, resulting in more and more children being prescribed behavioural drugs. Rachel Ragg investigates
… “Drugs ensure the conformism that Western society demands. They have no therapeutic or … nature goes right to the heart of Western society and its ideas about ‘normality’. “Capitalist society is based on people dressing, looking …
Are you living the dream? Or walking zombie-like through the nightmare of modern consumerism? Laura Sevier explores the sanity of downshifting
… Green Lifestyle Consumerism Green Living Society relaxinglg.jpg Are you living the … with this As a result, in a mass consumerist society the downshifting value system is … or a second home abroad. So much in our society seems geared towards getting us to do …
It’s hard to learn much or do much about sustainability without getting your hands dirty.
… Oil Soil Garden Post-carbon Oil Green Living Society Soily_Hands_Web_MAIN.jpg It’s hard to … notice that the ecological basis of their society is being undermined. Sound familiar? …
Last month my friend Satish Kumar said in Sustained magazine that the happiest people are those who live close to the land and use their hands – craftspeople and farmers. As a naturalist, keen gardener and soon-to-be vegetable-plot devotee, this resonates with me.
… Consumption Consumerism Climate Change Society Citizen_Rena_MAIN.jpg Last month my … it all wrong: there really is such a thing as society, and it matters that we are active … says, ‘the transition to a sustainable society cannot hope to proceed without the …
Heavy on the moralising, light on cheer, a new book on low-carbon living has Phil England reaching for the classics
… And Analysis Oil Community Climate Change Society Archive_248.jpg Heavy on the … Oil and Climate Change by Pat Murphy (New Society Publishers, £11.99) This article first …
Bongani Mthembu talks to the Ecologist about the struggles and successes in achieving environmental justice in South Africa’s townships
… Hannah Corr | 26th October 2011 Activism Society How To Make A Difference Pollution Oil … involved in our campaigns and changing the society they live in. We believe change starts … We’ve tried to involve them in changing our society for the better but it’s been a …
Duane Elgin is a self-described ‘evolutionary activist’ who, since the 1960s, has explored the practical and philosophical meaning of simplicity.
… Elgin The Ecologist | 1st April 2009 News Society Consumerism Waste Simplicity … click on their link below: Introduction (Society), Ann Pettifor (Finance), Derek Gow …
Happiness is... Climate change isn’t just a threat. It’s an opportunity for us to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
… Consumerism Global Warming Climate Change Society Culture Mental Health Consumerism Climate Change Society HappinessIs_Feb_07_MAIN.jpg Happiness … power once said, ‘there is no such thing as “society”. There are individual men and women …
Isolated by the surrounding desert, Kashgar was once
an oasis on the old Silk Road. Now the city is being overwhelmed in the rush to open up the region’s oil and gas reserves. By Dan Box.
… Carbon Dioxide Oil Indigenous Peoples Energy Society Isolated by the surrounding desert, … means a better chance of success within Han society. But that opportunity means choosing … tongue. The choice is between joining the new society or remaining Uyghur, and parents must …
An 500-strong Indigenous community in Alberta, the heart of Canada's environmentally catastrophic tar sands industry, is fighting back against the pollution, writes Melina Laboucan-Massimo - by cutting themselves adrift from dependence on fossil fuels, and starting up their own solar power station: a vital first step towards building a just and sustainable society.
… step towards building a just and sustainable society. Refusing to be victims in this game … own their own power and can build a just society which will help save our planet and … own their own power and can build a just society. …
Is it a coincidence that the terrorist outrage in Paris was committed weeks before COP21, the biggest climate conference since 2009? Perhaps, writes Oliver Tickell. But failure to reach a strong climate agreement now looks more probable. And that's an outcome that would suit ISIS - which makes $500m a year from oil sales - together with other oil producers.
… more isolated from Paris itself, and civil society, than they were already going to be. … the city's many charms. And as for civil society ... It's estimated that ten thousand …
Now here is an ecological pub quiz question: who wrote the following phrase and when?
… Supermarkets Supermarkets Tesco Fair Trade Society Green Living_44.jpg Now here is an … he wrote it in 1970, in his book Deschooling Society. That’s 37 years ago. Reading Illich’s …