If you're looking for small, short-term loans for a green project, it's worth borrowing from a credit union instead of a bank
… How credit unions can succeed where banks fail Dorienne … Economics Green Living Ethical Finance Credit Unions Short Term Loans Small Loans Robert … project, it's worth borrowing from a credit union instead of a bank In March 2009 I took …
The Blackspot Anticorporation was set up by media activists Adbusters to provide a shoe for consumers seeking an alternative to corporate brands like Nike. Blackspot’s latest design, the Unswoosher, has just been launched in the UK.
… audible wherever you go. It is, the plant’s union rep says, a model factory with a … off and two extra months of pay per year. UNIONISATION Union dues are 1 per cent of members’ …
Grassroots appeal in the European Court of Justice to protect endangered wolves in Finland.
… Finland became a member state of the European Union in 1995, wolves became a protected … The Habitats Directive of the European Union includes wolves as a protected … was sued by the Commission of the European Union in the European Court of Justice (CJEU) …
Remember when the UK was the 'dirty man of Europe'? What has changed since then, writes Caroline Lucas, is our membership of the EU - which has made us raise our environmental performance on everything from fisheries to air pollution, nature conservation, clean bathing waters and renewable energy. Leave, and it could all go into reverse.
… Britain to remain a member of the European Union. In a fast-changing world we need … stand out quite so clearly as the European Union's role in protecting our environment. In … blighted our beaches. In 1976, the European Union passed the Bathing Water Directive , …
… Many are denied the right to form a trade union. Many suppliers favour short-term … billion. These come to the table with trade unions, development charities and worker … 3. Can workers defend themselves? Are unions and collective bargaining allowed and …
In the latest in his exclusive series examining ethical businesses, Peter Salisbury reports on the rise of the leading eco-electricity supplier - and hears how it all started with a cocktail
… clink and murmur of delegates at a European Union (EU) energy conference after-party, she … to invest in renewables to capitalise on the union’s plans to integrate and liberalise the …
A consultation by the Welsh Assembly Government proposes more stringent measures to protect Wales's farmers from the threat of cross-contamination by GM crops
… Assembly Gm Crops Contamination European Union UK Legislation National Park Organic … on GM crops that is compatible with European Union and UK legislation,’ she said. ‘It is …
Say: ‘I am happy to pay for environmental degradation, chronic illness and labour rights abuses in countries that grow flowers for Western consumers but cannot feed their own people.’
… Agriculture Farming Water Waste Wages Labour Unions Holland Consumerism Agribusiness … for the industry’s mainly female workers. • Unions are rare. Of the hundreds of flower companies in Ecuador, only three are unionised. • To complete enormous quotas, for …
A just recovery from Covid-19 calls for coordinated global governance, with global public health authorities working alongside conservationists.
… like the WHO, the WTO, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is … candidate for President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), … like the WHO, the WTO, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) is …
Katharine Hamnett tells how Choose Love, her
new line with Tesco, is her attempt to change the
nasty business of making and selling clothes
… and seven day weeks are the norm and trade unions are rare or illegal. Workers are … will be made in China, where private trade unions are illegal. If companies like Tesco …
Ecologist writer Luke Dale-Harris questions the ability of Natura 2000 to work as an effective environmental regulator
… go on to form the backbone of the European Union. Emerging out of a continent torn apart … by decades of recession, peace was the Union’s founding principle, and economic …
In the second of a series of four blogs Clare Kendall discovers that fuel consumption by boat-dwellers is comparatively low and that energy is often more accessible than it is for those of us who live in buildings.......
… motoring weekend on the idyllic Shropshire Union canal we got through a higher literage … light at the end of the tunnel on the Grand Union canal GREEN LIVING Life on a canal boat …
Based on the IUCN’s Red List, Species on the Edge of Survival is a glossy tome with an important raison d’etre – to raise awareness of the plants, birds and animals we stand to lose forever, says Ruth Styles
… forever, says Ruth Styles The International Union for Conservation of Nature [IUCN]’s Red …
As the global assault on indigenous lands intensifies, the world's largest conservation group, the IUCN, has just voted at its World Conservation Congress for the sacred natural sites and territories of indigenous peoples to be recognised as 'No-Go Areas' for destructive industrial scale activities, writes Hal Rhoades - and for corporations to permanently withdraw from such areas.
… withdraw from such areas. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) …
From the tiger to the bumblebee, the list of endangered birds, animals and insects is a growing one. Now a new book based on the IUCN Red List is providing an insight into the species under threat
… currently appearing on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s [IUCN] Red …
Africa's poor environmental record has its roots in colonialism, which cut artificial boundaries through peoples and ecosystems, and left a rigid 'fortress conservation' ethic, writes Willem Daniel Lubbe. It's time for countries to adopt a new pan-African environmentalism, and transcend their colonial past.
… and organisations such as the African Union (AU), as well as the legacy of colonial …
Big conservation NGOs increasingly resemble the nature-destroying corporations they should be opposing, writes Margi Prideaux. This ideological capture is reflected in their vapid marketing to conservation 'consumers'; the serious abuse of indigenous communities they should be engaging as partners; and their willing sacrifice of core objectives to money and influence.
… Red List that's issued by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature now …
Is the aspiration to halt the loss of biodiversity by 2030 - enshrined in the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals - a fairy tale? It's ambitious, writes Richard Pearson, but there are plenty of signs that the world is acting effectively to conserve its endangered habitats and species. With extraordinary effort, we can do it.
… species , developed by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), …
The new work by artist Maya Lin, famous for her memorial to US soldiers lost in Vietnam, commemorates the species destroyed and endangered by human action. As the list of the dead grows, David Hawkins wonders if the future is set in stone
… endangered’ on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List, …