Blogs

Libby Grundy, Food for Life Director at the Soil Association, talks to the Ecologist about the food challenges facing the planet and what's inspiring her work...

Ahead of publication of the Ecologist Guide to Food - the first in a forthcoming series of hard-hitting consumer guides - our regular new blog will be covering all things ethical and culinary, and reporting on stories and issues that there simply wasn't room for in the book...

Need inspiration for sprucing up your house? From retro furnishings to sustainable interiors, Lisa Stephens rounds up five of the best eco-friendly home blogs

Need some destination inspiration? Ruth Styles rounds up the travel blogs that are making greener getaways cool

From planting tips to making your own 'seed bombs', Tom Antebi has the lowdown on the web’s best organic gardening blogs

Europe's demand for cheap meat is been fed by an increasing demand for soya feed from the Amazon but it comes at a cost - deforestation

Sylvia uses a team lunch outing as a chance to quiz her colleagues on their views on vegetarianism and eating less meat

France's tourist haven Mont Saint Michel is threatened. A new scheme to recreate the rock will have dramatic, albeit short-lived, results

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

The deputy-director of the Bank of England is on a national tour to convince us of the seriousness of its policies to ease the recession. Molly Scott Cato can't wait for the punchline

Note to politicians: surviving the current financial crisis means accepting that capitalism is broke

Glastonbury provides the perfect setting to reflect on free spirit. If only the wild thing in all of us could come out more often, writes Tom Hodgkinson

Materialism as a scientific ideology has proved itself unworthy of the challenges we face - we must look elsewhere for life's answers, says Rupert Sheldrake

What do a privatised post office and jogging have in common? They’re both inefficient, obsolete and all about the bottom line.

The climate secretary has been lauded for his coal-fired proposals, but beyond the smokescreen it’s business as usual says Joss Garman

It's time to re-engage with our food and re-evaluate the way we feed ourselves, says Rosie Boycott

Henry VIII’s land-grab robbed ordinary people of their commons – now a new campaign offers us the chance to take back what we’re owed.

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

Dan Box is on-site to witness the world's first climate refugees being evacuated due to rising sea levels

Dan Box teaches a class about climate change and its effects on the Carteret Islands, which are sinking due to rising sea levels, and how children can help stop climate change.