The European Commission has set out plans to keep global temperatures from increasing more than 2 degrees. The authors said that limiting global warming to 2ºC is both technically feasible and economically affordable if the international community acts swiftly.
Caroline Lucas was arrested on 8th January for protesting against the Trident missile system at the Faslane naval base in Scotland. She spoke to the Ecologist shortly after her release to talk about the illegality of the weapon, and why politicians should be spending less time in the House, and more time under the placard...
Graham Thompson, from the pressure group 'Plane Stupid', talks to the Ecologist about facing an ASBO, what needs to be done about aviation, and who's next on the target list. Watch out, O'Leary...
Most of us have a party in our pockets – those digital devices that promised a global village. We found that village, all right, and it is peopled with idiots. Plugged into iPods, chatting into palms, we are lost in techno-torpor enveloping us 24/7 from any locale.
The Idler magazine promotes, among other things, a good work-life balance. And its editor, Tom Hodgkinson, had things other than work on his mind when he gave this talk in a shop full of Ukeleles. Find out about the origin of mince pies, the puritans who banned Christmas, and Gordon Brown's bottom...
The Economist magazine ran a cover story suggesting that buying ethical food was a useless, 'feel good' gesture. The Ecologist says that they are wrong. We spoke to Jeanette Longfield, coordinator of the food and farming charity Sustain, to find out why.
In an article for the Ecologist, David Nicholson-Lord likened discussing population to 'placing your head on a stand at a coconut shy'. This didn't stop Lord Adair Turner, Richard Ottaway MP, and Catherine Budgett-Meakin tackling some tough questions at the Royal Geographic Society. Listen to their responses below.
Never mind population increase; shouldn't it be decreasing?
A biologist asks the most sensitive question of all.
Lord Adair Turner showed a graph which plotted standard of living against population. It formed a curve. The audience wanted to know whether our standard of living is rising...or falling.
The Chancellor's pre-budget report on Wednesday 6th December was a green-washed shambles. Paul Kingsnorth gives Gordon a helping hand with the re-write
Stephan Harding, coordinator of the MSc in Holistic Science at the Schumacher College, explains why standard economic growth is not the answer, and why personal Tradable Energy Quotas are...
