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Instead of making exaggerated claims about species becoming extinct, NGOs could make progress on issues like deforestation by collaborating more closely with companies, reports Tom Levitt

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

Obsessed with technology, we have overlooked something critical that lurks in our institutionalised notion of sustainability

Wholesome, seasonal, frugal, simple, fresh, homegrown and hardy...The Soil Association Soup Book's recipes are sure to delight all. Read on for some tasty recipes

An explosive mix of animals, people and economics means that land in Africa is becoming more valuable - and more contested - than ever

What few have stopped to consider in the continuing 'battle' against Somali pirates is what industrialised nations have been doing to the country's fishing grounds for years

Arne Naess, the father of the deep ecology movement, spent much time in his cabin on top of a mountain. Paying homage, Paul Miles recreates the trip

An exhibition in Beijing reveals architect Paolo Soleri's latest radical green city concept

A post-Copenhagen look at where the carbon emissions are coming from and how that is projected to change over the coming decade

New consultation to look at whether the next generation of biofuels will be more environmentally-sustainable than current food crop varieties

Two power plants in Cornwall could be producing renewable heat and electricity for the local community as early as 2013

We've inherited an unhealthy, puritan attitude to food and sensory pleasure, says Tom Hodgkinson. Taking a leaf out of the books of our medieval ancestors would do us all good...

Being off the beaten track need not require lashings of fossil fuels to provide a comfortable lifestyle. James Morrison tells the remarkable story of the inhabitants of Scotland's Knoydart Peninsula

Oceans becoming noisier as sounds travel further in increasingly acidic water

Climate secretary accuses China, Sudan, Bolivia and other leftwing Latin American countries of trying to hijack Copenhagen