Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must farm and eat differently
… organic yields would compare. Research by the University of Essex in 1999 found that, … centralised food system. A study by the University of Surrey shows that food from … controls. According to a 2006 report by the University of Essex, organic farming in the UK …
Last week, Channel 4 aired a documentary by controversial film-maker Martin Durkin. Entitled 'The Great Global Warming Swindle', the film suggested that a combination of factors has led us to mistakenly believe that our emissions of carbon dioxide are causing the planet to warm, and that in fact, natural cycles, solar activity and disaffected radicals were to blame.
… Professor in Quarternary Science at Exeter University and a Senior Research Associate at Oxford University... 3. Booming and cooling... A core …
Can organic farming feed the world? Ed Hamer and Mark Anslow say yes, but we must eat and farm differently
… organic yields would compare. Research by the University of Essex in 1999 found that, … centralised food system. A study by the University of Surrey shows that food from … controls. According to a 2006 report by the University of Essex, organic farming in the UK …
The claims for biofuels make it seem truly a wonder crop. Mark Anslow separates the wheat from the chaff
… of Ecology and Agriculture at Cornell University in New York, and his colleague, … Life Programme at George Washington University Law School, every dollar of ADM’s …
The Ecologist harnessed the power of several luminaries from the renewables world to find out why a wholly renewable future seems no closer than before.
… by Professor David Mackay, a Cambridge University physicist and author of a …
It has taken just one year for the land-based biofuels (agrofuels) bubble to inflate and burst. In February 2007, the Ecologist was almost alone in pointing out that growing energy crops for car fuel was ecological nonsense; now the tide of academic studies showing that agrofuels are neither energy - nor carbon-efficient seems unstoppable.
… energy returns. Dr Krassen Dimitrov of the University of Queensland in Australia, an …
A house built with straw could cost as little as £70,000 to build - and some are still standing after 140 years. Barbara Jones' fantastic book Building with Straw Bales reveals all you need to know
… eco building material A new project at Bath University shows that building with straw is …
We can all agree on what the problem is, it’s settling on a solution that’s the difficult part. Mark Anslow explores the complicated world of deforestation
… still: a report by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden in December …
The recent U-turn by of some of the UK's leading environmentalists - and one-time nuclear energy opponents - on the issue of nuclear energy, has caused vigourous debate in the media. Their reasoning is that we simply don't have the capacity to produce enough renewable energy to meet our needs. But as this comprehensive Ecologist report from 2007 shows the UK is really a renewable energy powerhouse.
The future of energy is renewable Jon Hughes Mark Anslow | 27th February 2009 News Renewable Energy Energy Oil UK Coal Gas Climate Change Global Warming Carbon Dioxide Carbon Dioxide Global Warming …