We are is in danger of exhausting those key resources we think of as renewable – especially food and fresh water, warns Friends of the Earth's Vicki Hird.
Dorienne Robinson explores the relationship between land carrying capacity and human dietary requirements in an attempt to answer her own question - could the UK feed itself?
Charles Eisenstein shares his concerns about how pervasive the 'technology will fix it' mentality has become, and proposes an entirely different approach to healing our current ecological and social crises.
Jeremy Wickremer explains why he believes permaculture offers multiple answers to societal and environmental problems in a beautifully simple and effective way.
Simon Pope, Director of Campaigns and Communications for the World Society for the Protection of Animals, questions why the UK government is so far behind other global powers when it comes to tackling the illegal wildlife trade.
Peter Wilcox, Captain of Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior III is deeply worried, but not about being blown up by the secret service (again), direct action, terrorism, or being rammed. Maxine Newlands finds out what it is he truly fears.....
Mary Stevens reviews the current exhibition at the Onca Gallery in Brighton which aims to explore the connections between creativity, climate change and communities.
Last week the Ecologist published a piece on the shocking decision to approve an enormous coal port on the Great Barrier Reef. Here Maxine Newlands reports on how environmental groups in Australia are responding to this threat.....
The UK was as divided in its reaction to the death of Margaret Thatcher, as it was by her policies when she was in office. James Parker reflects on whether Thatcherism, (like its primary proponent) has now passed on.
If there's one plant you don't need to be a botanist to safely identify it's wild garlic. Just follow your nose ... and head straight back to your kitchen says Susan Clark
Last Monday (8 April) campaigners against the Bexhill-Hastings link road (BHLR) held a nine-hour vigil outside the Department for Transport, attempting to search for redacted documents on the road. Paul Creeney reports......
