‘ENVIRONMENT’ Archives
TREES & CLIMATE CHANGE
INTERVIEW: JOHN GRACE How important are trees when it comes to mitigating climate change? Can they really make any difference? John Grace is Professor of Environmental Biology at the University of Edinburgh.
RESCUE DOGS
INTERVIEW: ROY DYRE The Essex Dog Display Team is made up entirely of rescue dogs and according to the display team Director, Roy Dyer there’s a very good reason for that.
GETTING RID OF RUBBISH
INTERVIEW: SHASHA KHAN Many environmentalists are anti incinerators. But of we’re running out of landfill whats so wrong with burning our waste? Shasha Khan is from The Green Party in Croydon and he believes there are three key reasons why incinerators are a bad idea – money, health and the environment.
OCEANS AND NOISE POLLUTION
INTERVIEW: VASSILI PAPASTROU Noise pollution of the worlds oceans now poses such a serious threat to marine mammals that urgent international action must be taken to counter it. That’s according to Vassili Papastavrou, Whale biologist with the International Fund for Animal Welfare.
ECOLOGY & ECONOMY
INTERVIEW: SATISH KUMAR Our economy is destroying our ecology and some claim that the two are and always will be mutually exclusive. But this actually the case? Satish Kumar is editor of Resurgence Magazine.
BE GREEN ON HOLIDAY
By CHANTAL COOKE Don’t forget the environment just because you are on holiday! Many of us take great care to recycle, reduce waste, use our cars less, donate to charity, buy fair-trade etc in our everyday lives but turn into “monsters of consumption and waste” when we’re on holiday. So here are some top tips to ensure that [...]
ECO HOLIDAYS
INTERVIEW: PAMELA NOVICKSA Is there any such thing as a truly eco holiday? Pamela Novicksa, author of the “No Nonsense Guide To Tourism” isn’t convinced.
WE NEED TO SAVE WATER
By Chantal Cooke Parts of the UK receive less rainfall, per head of population, than the Sudan. So although it may sometimes feel as though our summers have far too much rain, not too little, it’s important to conserve water. Water companies have looked at the possibility of piping water from wetter areas to drier areas, but this [...]
NEW YORK’S CENTRAL PARK BANS SMOKING
By Chantal Cooke No smoking in the park. That’s the message to the people of New York. From 23rd May 2011 smoking has been banned within Central Park. New York was among the first American cities to ban smoking in enclosed public places. Many cities, and countries, across the world have since done the same. Non smokers breathed a [...]
ANIMAL SENTIENCE
INTERVIEW: PETER SANDOE We rely on scientific evidence for so many things in modern society – so how does science see the issue of animal sentience. Peter Sandoe is chairman of the National Animal Ethics Council in Copenhagen.
