If you witnessed any of the activity surrounding Global Sharing Day, and feel inspired to learn more, read on. Here, Reuben Sagar reviews five green enterprises adding considerable momentum to the Collaborative Consumption movement.
Tonight sees the start of '60 years in the Wild' - a new BBC2 series charting the career of naturalist and presenter David Attenborough. Here, in a pre-broadcast interview with the Guardian, he reflects on how dramatically conservation has changed over the six decades since he first brought the full magnificence of Nature to our screens
Hazel Sillver looks at the new wave of spinal therapies that encourage the body to heal itself, including the Alexander Technique, the Shaw Method, Sotai-ho and Scaravelli yoga.
The Yale Project on Climate Change has just published a new report examining what the American public would like the second-term Obama administration and Congress to do about global warming. Here are some highlights from Public Support for Climate and Energy Policies September 2012.
Edgar Vaid reviews a compilation of six essays by leading environmental thinkers, including Ecologist editor-in-chief, Satish Kumar. Each essay is based on a book that has become an environmental classic.
With the present state of research we will never find out what we should and should not eat – but, says Colin Tudge, it is hard to improve on ancient wisdom and common sense.
Carbon forestry provides a low-cost and low-risk means for investors to hedge their carbon responsibilities.
John Gould asks how a new type of arboreal landscape, designed to sequester carbon from the atmosphere, will impact on wider issues such as sustainability and biodiversity.
If there is one big decision Obama can make to end Climate Silence and really push through effective policies to save our planet it is to appoint Al Gore as his chief Climate Change advisor, says Satish Kumar
As ideas go, the notion that elephant conservation would in any way be best served by making a legal supply of ivory available was unconvincing from the very start says conservationist Mary Rice
A bunch of flowers - unless plucked from your own plot - will likely have a hefty carbon footprint. The Ecologist's Green Living writer, Hazel Sillver looks at how to enjoy fresh flowers all without damaging the environment.
