The hidden costs of your Apple iPad and iPhone
It may have billion-pound profits and gushing praise for technological innovation but Apple is increasingly in the spotlight over its labour rights and environmental record. Eifion Rees reports on the ‘sweatshop brand’
Disney caught up in carbon offsetting controversy
Disney avoids emission cuts by investing $15.5 million in carbon offsetting schemes criticised by campaigners, including projects soon to be banned in the EU
Top 10…European wildlife destinations
From birds to whales, Europe has plenty for wildlife watchers to love. William McLennan rounds up some of the best
Why our growing taste for cheap Brazilian beef is devastating the Amazon
Brazil?s cattle sector has become the largest driver for deforestation globally, overtaking palm oil plantations in Asia. With the UK sourcing 40 per cent of its processed beef from Brazil, campaigners are now calling for a consumer boycott. Chris Pala investigates
CAMPAIGN HERO: Shlomo Dowen, UK Without Incineration Network
The head of the UK’s grassroots anti-incineration network on working towards a zero waste economy, encouraging community engagement and avoiding ‘defeatist’ language
Pesticide lobby resists moves to sanction ‘deadly’ paraquat substance
Experts want the weedkiller paraquat – poison of choice in many suicide attempts – to be added to a ‘watch list’ of dangerous substances. Why then is Syngenta fighting the proposals asks Keith Tyrell?
Great Prizes to be won on the Ecologist
For a chance to win a pair of tickets to the Real Food Festival in London, an Organic Face cream from Inlight, A family pass to a national trust site, A spritzer from Lush and a years supply of visionary soap, visit our Competitions Section
Wild about weeds
An underrated source of vitamins; nettles, dandelions and chickweed are a nuisance on the lawn but great to eat. Jeff Holman takes another look
Competition: win one of three Inlight organic face cleansers, worth £27
To celebrate the newly received Anti-ageing Beauty Bible award and the Natural Health Beauty award, INLIGHT is offering Ecologist readers a chance to win one of three pots of this delicious and effective face cleanser
Green Business: People Tree
People Tree?s Safia Minney has come through crises, both financial and natural, buoyed up by the belief that Fairtrade should top the fashion agenda
The Wisdom of Sustainability: Buddhist Economics for the 21st Century
Combining a detailed dissection of our unsustainable economy with an introduction to Buddhism, Sulak Sivaraksa?s economic vision provides an alternative to globalisation
The Ecologist March 1971: can the sea survive?
Forty years ago this month J. David George looked at the increasing amount of ocean pollution. But have things improved?
The New North: The World in 2050 by Laurence Smith
Global weather patterns have always been unpredictable but current changes are being amplified by the impact of people, consumption and pollution. The New North looks at what the next four decades could bring ? both for the weather and for us
Dr Bronner?s: the activist’s beauty brand
Not only are its own products Fairtrade and organic, beauty pioneer Dr Bronner?s is taking on big business to get to the truth about how organic their ranges really are
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