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Published in: HomeA world in crisis: echo, need, hope
A fresh awareness of system-failure and resource-constraint draws on the experience and ideas of the 1970s. But this...
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Published in: HomeGiant strides or fairy footsteps
How much progress can be made in tackling climate change without a global deal?
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Published in: oDRIn the backyard of Russia’s oil paradise
Pavlovo village was once a quiet backwater in the forest-steppe of Perm Region. In 1997, however, ecological...
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Published in: HomeEgypt, the Nile and the revolution
The fate of Egypt across the centuries is indissolubly linked to the river which gives it life. Today, a range of...
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Published in: HomeThe world’s food crisis: time to move
The international response to the food crisis of 2011 is less energetic and coherent than during the last emergency,...
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Published in: HomeAn extreme climate: dangers and needs
Both regional weather disasters and global climate trends present compelling arguments for political and economic...
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Published in: HomeThe new Arctic: trade, science, politics
The opening of the Arctic to ship-passage will transform the region’s political as well as environmental landscape,...
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Published in: HomeThe new food movement: politics and pleasure
The emergent movements around the politics of food are a vital component of debates on the planet’s future, says...
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Published in: openEconomyA low carbon future needs an industrial policy
The UK Chancellor (Finance Minister), George Osborne, presented plans for taxation and spending that pay homage to...
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Published in: HomeJapan: from tsunami to change
The effects of the catastrophic earthquake in Japan’s northeast will be felt for years to come. How Japan responds...
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Published in: HomeAfter Cancún: shifting climate gears
The loss of momentum in climate diplomacy reflects deep flaws in the way campaigners understand and frame climate...
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Published in: HomeThe politics of climate finance
A high-level international report on how financial resources can be raised to help developing countries address...
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Published in: HomeTaking the right path? The Centre for Alternative Technology and the politics of radical ecology
Reflecting on a recent visit to the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT) and his life as an eco-activist, Charlie...
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Published in: HomeEd Miliband’s global moment
The election of a new leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party is a rare opportunity to put fresh thinking on...
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Published in: HomeThe white and pleasant land
A racist assault on unfamiliar ground provokes Delwar Hussain to reflect on why the British countryside looks less...
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Published in: HomeSchool wars: France vs England
A flurry of reports that castigates the French school system also highlights the deficiencies of Anglocentric...
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Published in: oDRLaid low by the heat
The Russian heat wave has been going on for weeks. From her dacha Elena Strelnikova gives a wry account of officials...
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Published in: HomeEcocentrism: a response to Paul Kingsnorth
Paul Kingsnorth’s journey from a degraded environmentalism to nature-centred ways of living and thinking has many...
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Published in: HomeConfessions of a recovering environmentalist
"Environmentalism, which in its raw, early form had no time for the encrusted, seized-up politics of left and right,...
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Published in: HomeAfter climategate: forward to reality
A series of careful reports into the leaked emails of climate scientists provides a consistent account of the...