Understanding Our EcoPsychology

Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:40 PM EDT

THE root of the Global Environmental Crisis lies in our relationship with nature. If we are to avoid ecological suicide then we need to rediscover our ecological unconscious.

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science, ecopsychology, human-ecology, green-lifestyles, ecological-unconscious, ecological-ego, reconnecting-with-nature

GREEN Shoots of a Global Economic Recovery

Mon Apr 20, 2009 5:35 PM EDT

WITH the global economic recession, a broken financial system, job losses, fall in assets, drop in wealth, persistent poverty and growing environmental problems it is time to change our model of economic growth.

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green, environment, world-news, global-economic-recovery

The Right of the Poor to EcoEquity

Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:43 PM EDT

THE fight against poverty and the climate change are two key challenges of the 21st century. But how can we square development, which allows freedom from poverty, with climate protection?

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poverty, science, climate-change, poor, millenium-development-goals, greenhouse-development-rights-framework

When The Lights Go Out

Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:39 PM EDT

THE UK government would be acting as a climate criminal if it allows a new coal-fired power station at Kingsnorth in Kent to go ahead, say campaign groups.

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science, nuclear-power, energy-crisis, peak-oil, power-failure, energy-gap

Too Little, Too Late to Save the Planet

Thu Mar 5, 2009 2:55 PM EST

FROM switching off lights, recycling waste to reducing our car use, government is encouraging us all to change our behaviour and reduce our carbon footprint. But are these actions too little too late to save us from ecological collapse?

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science, climate-change, wwf, james-hansen, carbon-footprint, christian-aid, contraction-and-convergence, carobn-rationing, carbon-allowances, gary-haq

Is Clean Air Bad for the Planet?

Sat Feb 21, 2009 5:49 PM EST

HEALTH damaging particles in polluting gases emitted by industry, traffic and domestic heating have a 'cooling' effect on the climate. In reducing local air pollution we are lowering this cooling effect and inadvertently accelerating global warming.

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europe, asia, air-pollution, climate-change, particulate-matter, aerosols, cliimate-cooling