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...
What would you spend £20 billion on rather than an outdated military deterrent? Click here for some answers, and to listen to the reasons why nuclear is nonsense.
How green is David Cameron really? Make up your own mind, by listening to the speech he gave on Conservative environmental policy at the Green Alliance Annual Debate.
