The Summer Camp held by The Resurgence Trust - publisher of The Ecologist - is taking place from 13 July 2018. Speakers will discuss our search for personal wellbeing - and also how to create a society that holds and helps each of its members reach their potential. GREG NEALE reports
… Last chance to get tickets for Resurgence summer camp - with £20 off for readers of The … 5th July 2018 Ethical Living Health Wellbeing Summer Camp greenandaway.jpg The Summer Camp held by The Resurgence Trust - …
With the coming of summer, South Korea's 'Boknal' dog-eating festival is under way, writes Anneka Svenska. Known for the extreme cruelty deliberately inflicted on dogs to improve the taste of their meat, Boknal is a barbaric relic rooted in ignorance and pseudo-medical superstition whose time is well and truly up.
… dog-elixir2-cut.jpg With the coming of summer, South Korea's 'Boknal' dog-eating … and protest last Friday against the Korean summer season of dog eating called 'Boknal'. I … Korean holiday marking the height of the summer growing season. It is traditionally the …
An exotic parasite is spreading through the world's honey bees and global warming is making it worse, writes Robert Paxton. A new study that shows it will soon be causing widespread colony collapse in North America and Europe.
… Bee crisis: warmer summers will help new parasite Robert Paxton | … in particular is a major risk, especially as summers become warmer. Bees are fairly used to … at least help us to understand why warmer summers may paradoxically lead to great …
Around 15 million Britons endure this three-season affliction. Pat Thomas looks at causes, treatments and drug-free tactics.
… | 2nd June 2008 Ethical Living Hayfever Summer Drug Free Allergies Food And Health … may think that the hayfever season ends when summer does, there are, in fact, several … spring, tree pollens can cause suffering. In summer, grass pollens bring misery to the …
Raspberries, mackerel and broad beans are all on the menu this month
… Of all the good things that come with midsummer – lawn tennis, pints out on the patio … So with 31 glorious days to feast on high summer specialities, we asked Eat the Seasons' … English,’ and these perennial summer favourites are also a good source of …
Human beings in high-income countries are leading increasingly artificial lives divorced from the natural environment and without the important health benefits of sunshine. The result is chronic ill health of many kinds, warns Oliver Gillie
… us. For full health, it is important in summer to expose as much skin to the sun as … at home we would naturally get plenty of summer sun. In times gone by, when a sunny day … with a natural resistance to burning as the summer progressed and the sun became …
If you go down to the woods today (and stay at least until tomorrow) you're sure to come home feeling a whole lot better says Susan Clark, who recommends holing up in one of the UK's Forest Holidays' log cabins for a day or two ...
… to science, I am also ready to face down any summer bug thinking to pass my way this week. … of days before we head into what's left of summer. For our original report on the … Forest Holiday, check out the current special summer offer below: 20% off Forest Holidays …
From Nordic walking to tai chi, George Blacksell rounds up ten great ways to take your workout into the great outdoors
… your workout into the great outdoors With summer in full swing, spending time … that let you get fit and enjoy the late summer sunshine at the same time. Nordic … wild berries and traditional smoke saunas: summer at Lake Saimaa With its ultra-clean …
For 25 years, a group of eco-aware surfers have been campaigning for cleaner waves, writes Summer Brooks. SAS was founded in 1990 to tackle sewage discharges into UK coastal waters, and now, bigger and stronger than ever, they are turning their focus to the global problem of ocean plastic - both picking it up on our beaches, and pushing for long term, global solutions.
… Sewage turns its fight to ocean plastic Summer Brooks | 2nd September 2015 Activism … been campaigning for cleaner waves, writes Summer Brooks. SAS was founded in 1990 to … . See the Return to Offender campaign page. Summer Brooks is a journalism student living …
As the nights draw in, Susan Clark settles in for winter with a store of mulling syrup that captures the distinctive, old-English taste of juniper berries.
… taste of juniper berries. Over the summer just gone, my husband ran a little … was at the next table or sitting opposite. Summer seems like a dream now autumn too has … Yuletide season, but seeing how our little summer tearoom had helped bring our small …
After four years of low rainfall Brazil's commercial capital, Sao Paulo, is suffering from a grim combination of high temperatures and water shortages, writes Leila Carvalho. And now the drought has given rise to a lethal plague of dengue fever.
… of its precipitation during the Austral summer, from October to March. Yet in the last … records of high temperatures during these summers have increased evapotranspiration , … will become less persistent in the next summer and increase the probability of extreme …
In week three of e-biking to work, a chance encounter with a fox leaves Susan Clark asking why we don't do more to stop habitat loss and protect our wildlife
… Rosie and relied on her to get to the best summer job I ever had. I would cycle a round … kinds of Devon lanes and past the same early summer burgeoning hedgerows. But with more of … me, I ride with a heavy burden. Earlier this summer, a 25-strong group of British wildlife …
6 ways to get fit in the park this summer and help the environment at the same time....
… 6 ways to get fit in the park this summer and help the environment at the same … and head to your local park to get fit this summer. If you fancy something a little more …
Short-haired bumblebee to be brought back from New Zealand and reintroduced into Kent
… of bumblebee will return to Britain next Summer after a decade-long absence. … at Dungeness in Kent in late Spring/early Summer, where volunteers and activists have …
Five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster began to unfold, the searing psychological effects are still being felt among the 160,000 refugees who fled the fallout, writes Linda Pentz Gunter. But now there's growing pressure to return to contaminated areas declared 'safe' in efforts to whitewash the disaster's impacts. Why the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in Fukushima City.
… the rush? To clear the way for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Olympics, complete with events in … be center stage in the lead-up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo. … be center stage in the lead-up to the 2020 Summer Olympic Games to be hosted in Tokyo. …
The low-down on one of the best natural skin moisturisers and a guide to which products contain it
… long way, one pot will probably last you all summer. Derived from the nuts of the African … sorting the good from the bad GREEN LIVING Summer eco beauty round-up The Ecologist's top …
Under the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last August, Gaza's fishers were meant to be able to work up to six miles from the coast, writes Charlie Hoyle. In fact, Israel is routinely attacking boats within the zone, arresting fishermen, and seizing boats and nets, never to be returned. Only last week, one fisherman was shot dead after allegedly straying over an invisible boundary.
… during the Israeli military offensive last summer, according to Oxfam , adding further … coast since the ceasefire agreement last summer. The agreement had promised to expand …
An ordinary arable field in Sussex is sprayed with pesticides 22 times over a single growing season. Dave Goulson wonders how the bees can survive this toxic onslaught - and exactly who benefits.
… bees will feed on in season, is sown in late summer with a seed dressing containing the … and other pollinators. Between winter and summer, the crop is also treated with a …
For decades Israel has been driving Palestinian farmers off their land by imposing restrictions on agriculture, writes JONATHAN COOK. But one company, Canaan Fair Trade, has found an innovative way to resist peacefully, increasing resilience and prosperity in rural West Bank communities, and forging international alliances in the global movement for good food and farming.
… heavy winter rains wash away the dust of the summer drought from the leaves and fruit in … mature trees can survive through a dry summer, even if the yield and size of the … Germany, Japan, France and Turkey. This summer the largest such zone was due to open …
Israel's armed forces have destroyed vital water and sewage infrastructure in their bombing campaign of the besieged territory, writes Mohammed Omer. This constitutes a severe breach of the 1977 Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the part of Israel and all those conceiving, planning, ordering and perpetrating the attacks.
… increase the human suffering during the hot summer season." Article 54 of the 1977 … consumption of water in Gaza increases in summer, but power-cuts due to Israel's … Eye . "That's a luxury right now." Gaza's summer can be unbearably hot anyway, where …
Poland is the front line for Europe's small scale family farming, writes Julian Rose, under assault from the EU regulations, corporate agribusiness, and a hostile government. A popular campaign is fighting back from its base deep in the Polish countryside, a small organic farm that's developing new green technologies to enhance the sustainability of small farms everywhere.
… countryside. Join us on the farm this summer ! ICPPC's Eco Centre is concentrated … Rose will be speaking at the Resurgence summer camp, 30 July - 2 August, at Green and …
More than 25 million Americans live within an 'oil train blast zone', writes Ralph Nader. But as volumes of tar sands and shale oil carried by train soar, the oil cars identified as a 'substantial danger to life, property, and the environment' in 1991 remain in use. We must ban those dangerous railcars - and put an end to all 'extreme oil'.
… stadiums. 25 million Americans at risk Last summer, environmental watchdog group … it deserves, but not yet the response. Last summer, the US federal government began the …
A new study on the spread of bovine TB shows that only with more frequent testing of cattle will the disease be defeated in England, writes Oliver Tickell. It has already worked in Scotland, and is on the way to doing in Wales - where some herds are tested every six months.
… as total tests on herds are lowest during summer months, when cattle are out in the … infection it is logical to test cattle during summer months." Indeed it appears rather …