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Beekeeping relieves land degradation in Kyrgyzstan
Oil
How things work: Canada’s oil sands
Huge tracts of remote forested land are strip-mined to obtain a thick crude oil called bitumen from Canada's oil sands.
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Oil
Energy descent from peak oil: Collapse or evolution?
Is the tendency to categorise environmentalists and believers in peak oil as 'doom and gloomers' justified?
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Oil
Oil reserve estimates inflated?
According to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency, the world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates indicate.
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Food
Grow a green roof (and eat it too)
Cities are called concrete jungles because cluttered skyscrapers overlook congested streets and highways. Green roofs to the rescue!
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Oil
Fashion from trash
Bombastic Plastic of Bali designs and sews handbags, tote bags and wallets from fabric they create by fusing together reclaimed plastic shopping bags.
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Climate
Debate 2.0: Who’s afraid of climate change?
Do you think “scary” is acceptable in climate change campaigns and can it be effective, or just counter-productive?
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Climate
Climate change is a feminist issue
Granting women control over their own reproduction would combat overpopulation and reduce carbon emissions.
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Climate
Cutting carbon by degrees
United Nations University staff help save money and cut CO2 emissions by adjusting thermostats and seasonal wardrobe choices.
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Oil
The future is electric
If the 41st Tokyo Motor Show is any guide, major car manufacturers are taking the race to build eco-friendly machines seriously.
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Climate
High and dry
Scientists explain how they protect the Tibetan grasslands by working with communities to improve biodiversity, livestock production and livelihoods.
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Biodiversity
Into the seed bunker
Including the recently added endangered pink banana, Kew's millennium seed bank now contains seeds from 10% of the world's plant species.
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Climate
Shared futures
The UK Youth Climate Coalition and the African Youth Initiative on Climate Change's Kenyan chapter plan to take their place as COP15 stakeholders.
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Food
Debate 2.0: Meat or the climate? Pick one!
We love our meat. So you can’t expect people to turn vegetarian, even one day a week, simply because it might help save the planet. Can you?
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Climate
How things work: Ocean energy making waves
Ocean power could produce energy enough to cover the world's current electricity consumption, yet the industry is not getting adequate assistance.
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Climate
The rise of online climate activists
There is a surge of climate change activism, especially through social media, to promote awareness and influence leaders before COP15 in December.
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Biodiversity
Earth’s catalogue now holds 1.9 million species
According to the world's most comprehensive catalogue of plants and animals, the number of species documented by scientists has risen to 1.9 million.
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Kicking the travel drug
Travel. The way we do it today, it is one of the least sustainable things that we do. Yet if we are not traveling, then it is likely we are planning to.
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Climate
Better than Star Wars: The Age of Stupid
The Age of Stupid indicts our carbon indulgence with familiar examples of consumer gratification, warmongering and resource plunder.
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Climate
Summit all up
Declarations by global leaders at September's climate summit in New York are hot news world-wide. But what can average citizens take away?
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Climate
In search of shelter
Environmentally-induced displacement is happening and migration issues need to be mainstreamed into global climate change discourse.
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Climate
Transition to a climate smarter world
A 2°C temperature rise due to global warming is the maximum before the world is irreversibly damaged according to a just-released World Bank report.
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Biodiversity
Biodiversity — What does it mean to you?
The sad fact is that biodiversity means little to the daily lives of most people, despite the extraordinary efforts to change this by Professor Sarukhan and others.
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Climate
Fighting carbon with fire
In Arnhem Land, North Australia, Bininj (aboriginal) people use traditional fire management to reduce emissions and foster their lands.
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Climate
Lights, climate, action
Podcast interview with Energy Surveyor Zi Zi Searles on how businesses that invest in energy efficient lighting can save money and cut emissions.
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Climate
Debate 2.0: What will it take to make you change?
We ask: What will it take to make you change your high carbon emitting behaviours to save the planet?
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Climate
The beauty of 10:10 is that it’s both achievable and meaningful
A new UK-based campaign launched on 1 September 2009 called 10:10 aims to reduce emissions by 10% by 2010.
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Climate
How things work: Geothermal energy
Harnessing even more geothermal energy would cut fossil fuel use and lower greenhouse gas emission levels.
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Climate
Fake trees, algae tubes and white roofs
Report from UK Institute of Mechanical Engineers says geo-engineering ideas can be integral part of the solution to climate change.
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Food
Apples have feelings too
Japanese organic farmer Akinori Kimura grows pesticide and fertilizer-free apples in a weedy ecosystem that relies on natural soil ecology.
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Climate
Young leaders from the global south
United Nations University students from the global south provide us with their thoughts about climate change and energy and food security.
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Oil
Launching Debate 2.0: Not in my backyard
Debate 2.0 is an open arena for sharing your ideas on controversial topics. This session: NIMBYism (not in my backyard).
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Climate
Many strong voices
The Many Strong Voices Programme connects indigenous people from the Arctic and Small Island Developing States (SIDS) affected by climate change.
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Climate
One man inspiring Hope
Wan Ping is inspiring volunteers to help him battle aridification with a land restoration project that halts advancing sand dunes in Khorchin, China.
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Climate
Forbidden forest of the Dayak people
The Dayaks combine centuries-old indigenous knowledge with eco-tourism and carbon trading to fight deforestation.
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Food
Growing food movements
Growing awareness of climate change and peak oil are leading to growing food movements in the Global North.
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Oil
New operating system for post-peak oil age
We need to re-orient international institutions and design a new Operating System (i.e. energy policy) for the post-peak oil age.
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Climate
Who put the COP15 in Copenhagen?
At the COP15 conference in Copenhagen in December we need to replace the Kyoto Protocol.
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Climate
Japan to suffer huge climate costs
There is a pervasive belief amongst Japanese leaders and decision-makers that climate change will not have a big impact on Japan in the future. They are wrong.
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Climate
Wilder typhoons may mean bigger yen losses
Wilder typhoons in Japan as a result of climate change could cause larger financial and infrastructure damage.
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Climate
How-to guide for environmental refugees
Dubbed the world's first “environmental refugees”, Carteret Islanders document their relocation plan to aid other climate change victims.
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