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Why don't we follow the French model and take the whole month of August as holiday? It may help strengthen our economy

Oil extraction from tar sands is causing large-scale environmental damage, say activists

As the price of oil increases again, Canada's tar sands once more look like a giant cash cow to the industry. Now, the only thing standing between the 400 ton bulldozers and rampant environmental destruction may be a small group of First Nations people...

Aberdeen attempts to move away from dependence on declining oil stocks with opening of new green energy centre

What's the real price of your bouquet? Pat Thomas dishes the dirt on cut flower production in less-industrialised countries

A clothing label, a destination shop, and a two-woman fashion powerhouse, Junky Styling has just published a step-by-step guide on how to make its most popular designs

As the preparations for Climate Camp 2009 continue apace, Phil England presents this special programme looking at the scale and spread of this 21st century campaigning phenomenon...

Small-scale biofuels would reduce carbon emissions and help avert poverty in poorer countries, says Christian Aid report

Molly gets her knuckles rapped for not including standard economic models in her university teaching, and wonders if the profession is disappearing up its own regression formula...

Deforestation, wind erosion and poor farming practices blamed for deterioration of soil as the real costs of the Green Revolution are measured

They emptied the public purse to fund their continuing largesse. Now it's time for the banks to pay us back. At phenomenally good rates...

Proposed emissions cuts by many industrialised countries fall short of levels called for by NGOs and climate scientists

Pollyanna Pickering on being one of the few westerners to see a giant panda in the wild, saving the Abyssinian Wolf and how art has led her to a greater appreciation of the natural world...

Welsh Climate Camp gets underway as protesters set up camp near coal mine

Turbine maker says closures will balance demand, as boss criticises UK's commitment to wind and hints at redundancy reinstatement for protesters