Ecopedia: Green Politics
Green politics
Nuclear fallout
- By Caroline Lucas
- 11 January 2008
The government’s commitment to nuclear power will undermine national and environmental security for decades
An American spanner in the works
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 14 December 2007
Peter Hardstaff reports on the anger felt at the Bali climate conference over the US stance on cutting emissions
Mark Lynas's Green Grid
- By Mark Lynas
- 13 December 2007
Should the incremental approach of Kyoto be extended, or ditched for something more ambitious? Read the arguments for and against and vote in our climate choice poll
Happy 10th birthday Kyoto
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 12 December 2007
As people at the Bali conference sing 'happy birthday dear Kyoto' Peter Hardstaff reports on America's blocking game
Dr Quack's miracle climate remedies
- By Peter Hardstaff
- 11 December 2007
Roll up, roll up to hear some global warming solutions
No election? Is it good or bad?
- By Sian Berry
- 08 October 2007
Following Gordon Brown's confirmation there will be no autumn poll Sian Berry reflects on the up and downsides to not having an election at the moment
Zac, are you serious?
- By Sian Berry
- 20 September 2007
On 13 September, Sian gave her reaction to the Tory Quality of Life group's report. Then we gave its co-author Zac Goldsmith, a right of reply. Here Sian answers back.
Zac responds to Sian Berry
- By Zac Goldsmith
- 19 September 2007
Last week the Green Party's Sian Berry criticised the Tory Quality of life group report. Here Zac Goldsmith, who co-chaired the group, accuses her of a Labour-style attack.
Energy efficiency can begin at home
- By Peter Wilby
- 02 July 2007
Editors and journalists don't understand the science involved in energy policy, says Peter Wilby. So perhaps we should be thankful they usually keep off the subject
Conservation
Death of the Amazon
- By Sue Branford and Jan Rocha
- 28 June 2007
In Brazil, environmental technocrats talk of saving the rainforest with satellite technology - but loggers, miners and farmers keep finding scams to evade the law.
Green colonials
- By Sue Branford and Jan Rocha
- 13 November 2006
An international project to buy large parts of the Amazon rainforest has run up against stiff resistance from indigenous groups. Sue Branford and Jan Rocha report from Brazil
Green Books
It's getting hot in here
- By Johann Hari
- 02 April 2007
Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet
Mark Lynas Fourth Estate, 358pp, £12.99
ISBN 0007209045
Clear and present danger
- By John Gray
- 18 September 2006
Heat: how to stop the planet burning
George Monbiot Allen Lane, the Penguin Press, 304pp, £17.99
ISBN 0713999233
It may be too late to do anything about global warming. So, rather than pretending it can be stopped, shouldn't we concentrate on coping with the disruption?
Diminishing returns
- By John Gray
- 25 July 2005
Twilight in the Desert: the coming Saudi oil shock and the world economy
Matthew R Simmons Wiley, 422pp, £15.99
ISBN 047173876X
The rich man and the butterfly. Are we trapped on a runaway train? Bjorn Lomborg, self-styled sceptical environmentalist, on why ecologists are wrong to despair about the future of the planet
- By Bjorn Lomborg
- 29 July 2002
Rising Tides: a history of the environmental revolution and visions for an ecological age
Rory Spowers Canongate Books, 334pp, £14.99
ISBN 184195246X
A vision of hell
- By Johann Hari
- 15 April 2002
A Guide to the End of the World: Everything you never wanted to know
Bill McGuire Oxford University Press, 224pp, £11.99
ISBN 0713994436
The great green book
- By Colin Tudge
- 19 April 1999
Republished this month, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring jump-started the environmental movement. Colin Tudgeassesses how much - or how little - has changed since 1962
