Four held after Arctic storm halts Greenland protest
Four Greenpeace activists who clung to an oil rig off western Greenland using rock-climbing gear have been arrested after an Arctic storm forced them to abandon their protest.
Fri, 03 Sep 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Star names try to beat slump in eco-clothing
The dream of eco-friendly, fashion is not wearing well. While high-profile new eco-clothing lines from the designer Katharine Hamnett and Pretenders singer Chrissie Hynde may give the appearance that it is boom time for environmentally friendly fashion, stagnant sales figures are leading analysts to question whether there really is a market for sustainable style.
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 
It's a greener shade of green: Britain's first organic golf course
With their diamond-patterned jumpers, neatly pressed slacks and expensive club memberships, most golfers seem to have little in common with the unwashed eco-warrior brigade. The divide between the two groups is not just sartorial, but stems from the fact that many golf clubs use huge amounts of water, disfigure the landscape and use fertilisers and pesticides to keep their greens lush. However, this gulf may soon be bridged, as a Cambridgeshire club which boasts a full-time ecologist, not to mention a resident stoat at the eighth hole, is poised to become the UK's first organic golf club.
Sun, 29 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Simon Usborne: 'Nick Dodds was diagnosed with testicular cancer ? but as he fought back, doctors told him to ride again'
It's easy, as a bike bore, to get caught up in a cycle of vanity and obsession. You get fixated on gears, seeking out water bottles to match your paintjob, or checking your form in shop windows (no, really). But now and then you meet someone who reminds you it really isn't about the bike.
Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Dramatic fall in number of plastic bags given out by supermarkets
The number of "single-use" plastic bags given to customers by leading UK supermarkets has fallen for the fourth year in a row.
Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Solar panels approved for Charles residence
The Prince of Wales was granted permission today to install dozens of solar
panels on his home at Clarence House in the latest move to cut his carbon
footprint.
Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:33:24 +0100 Danes block Greenpeace vessel in Arctic
A Danish warship today confronted a Greenpeace ship which is on a mission to
target "dangerous" deep sea oil drilling sites, the environmental group
claimed.
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:10:52 +0100 Endangered spaces: Can our wildest places survive tourism?
Eco-tourism. Is this now-fashionable concept basically a contradiction in
terms ? on a par, as cynics might say, with "business ethics"
or "compassionate conservatism"? "Adventure travel" is,
of course, a concept as old as the hills, even if some of our greatest
adventurers, such as Captain Scott, took great pains to proclaim their
serious scientific purposes.
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:00:29 +0100 A lot of bottle: Life on board the Plastiki
Do you want to cross the Pacific on a boat made of plastic bottles?" I was asked a year-and-a-half ago. "Yes," I replied without hesitation. I figured it wasn't a question that would come up again soon. The Plastiki adventure began when David de Rothschild, the British adventurer and environmentalist, came across a United Nations report on the state of the world's oceans, which pointed to the fact that our seas and their ecosystems are dying, suffocated by millions of tons of human waste, in particular plastics. There was also the "discovery" of huge gyres of plastic waste "the size of Texas" trapped in oceanic vortices. Sailor and environmentalist Charles Moore had sailed through one of these Pacific "garbage patches" in 1997 and brought back grim samples: a briny soup in which plastic nanoparticles outnumbered plankton by a ratio of six to one.
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Supermarkets lose heart in green war on plastic carrier bags
Britain's biggest supermarket chains will come under fire this week for handing out tens of millions more carrier bags than last year, derailing attempts to reduce the environmental impact from billions of disposable bags.
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 Green prison: Where security meets ecology
Environmentally friendly prisons. Liberals think they're a no-brainer,
right-wingers might view them as just another hand in the public purse. Do
the world's incarcerated now have a responsibility to save the planet?
Tue, 17 Aug 2010 00:00:12 +0100 Charles to embark on sustainable living tour
The Prince of Wales is to embark on a tour of the UK next month, taking in
Bristol when he will be joined by the Duchess of Cornwall, to champion
examples of sustainable living.
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 08:42:20 +0100 Zen and the art of saving the planet
As a vision of the future, the community of Plum Village in the French wine
region of the Dordogne doesn't conform to stereotype. It doesn't bristle
with technology, scientific endeavour and cutting-edge innovation. It is
austere, tranquil and basic, and it is inhabited by brown-robed monks.
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:43 +0100 All new homes to run on green power by 2016
Every new home is to be powered by a green energy plant to offset its environmental impact under government plans for zero-carbon living from 2016.
Sun, 08 Aug 2010 00:00:01 +0100 1 in 4 Blue Flag beaches 'should lose status'
More than a quarter of Britain's top-rated beaches should be stripped of their
Blue Flag status, campaigners said today.
Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:49:51 +0100 Councils to sell electricity to the national grid in green initiative
Town halls could become mini power stations under plans to allow councils to sell "green electricity" to the national grid.
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