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She's applying the same principles to environmental campaigning as her forebears did to fighting for universal suffrage. Laura Sevier meets the founder of the Climate Rush

Reporting from the frontline of environmental activism, Andrew Wasley takes a closer look at the environmental situation in Tibet.

Working alongside the people of Ethiopia, WaterAid is helping bring clean water and safe sanitation to drought-hit areas, as Leonora Oppenheim discovers

Financial slowdown? What about a holiday to match? Eifion Rees ditches the nine-to-five in favour of a stress-busting canoe trip down the river Thames.

With the oil and gas industry spoiling groundwater in the US, New York’s once-prominent natural springs need to be restored.

Since we don’t have enough land for the renewable technologies we need let’s go stratospheric instead, with a high-altitude solution…

Why are we clinging to the outmoded employment aspirations of an ailing system? You’re not redundant, you’re job-free, says Tom Hodgkinson

Insects can be a double-edged sword when it comes to gardening. Andy Hamilton reveals the secrets of harmless, low-impact repulsion.

Jonathon Porritt on renewables, roast lamb and life at Westminster

A little bit of natural seasoning won’t kill you, it’s what gets added – or taken away – that matters. Pat Thomas explains why refining and demonising salt is such a crude response

Stella McCartney talks to Matilda Lee about designer activism and the release of her second 'eco collection'.

To most people nettles are a troublesome weed to be cursed, avoided or eradicated. Here are five reasons to appreciate them

In the first of a three-part series, a repentant travel writer trades in his longhaul flights and luxury holidays for three months living on a narrowboat

Taking a pill for a headache may seem like the most natural thing in the world, but prescription drugs are forcing their way into every corner of our lives and environment, says John Naish

Barack Obama and Ban Ki Moon, Labour and the Conservatives, green groups and trade unionists, Nicholas Stern and even Peter Mandelson - everybody is talking about a 'Green New Deal'. Faced with an economic downturn, climate breakdown and an energy system in need of billions of new investment anyway, the idea is simple and attractive.