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The Great Ventriloquist

Why is a former Greenpeace activist siding with Indonesia’s logging industry?

The government has abandoned its sustainable homes policy – by redefining zero.

Many PFI deals were undemocratic and against the national interest. It’s time we stopped honouring them.

The governments of both the UK and Wales could almost be trying to turn bovine TB into a pandemic.

While pressing Stewart Brand to admit he was wrong, it seems that I might have stumbled across a new tactic in the corporate propaganda war.

How Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs surrendered to the tax avoiders

Despite challenging the environmental movement to admit when it gets things wrong, he seems unable to do so himself.

Here are the emails Stewart Brand and I have sent to each other

A new film on Channel 4 disses the greens while dodging the issue of power.

Everyone agrees that the new declaration on biodiversity is a triumph. Just one snag: it doesn’t appear to exist.

How to make and store your own apple juice.

The Tea Parties didn’t arise spontaneously: they were boiled up by big business.

The economic crisis is the disaster the Conservatives have been praying for. Now they can reshape the economy on corporate lines.

The draft global plan for saving biodiversity contains no firm proposals at all.

Progressive causes are failing: here’s how they could be turned around

We appear to be incapable of dealing with invasive species while there’s still time.

Here are the biodiversity challenges we’ll be pressing governments to meet

Why are we still prospecting for oil when we can’t afford to use existing reserves?

Why does a crazy set of beliefs in one field seem to migrate into unrelated subjects?

It’s already clear that the climate talks in December will go nowhere – so what do we do?