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Is Stewart Brand the New Ian Plimer?

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?

Those who made false accusations against Rajendra Pachauri are now turning their fire on me.

Here are some green pioneers whose work is worth celebrating.

A new book has forced me to reconsider my views on food.

The people hounding him have failed to produce a single scrap of evidence to support their accusations, yet there’s no let-up.

The report we publish for the first time today proves that the serious charges made against Rajendra Pachauri are completely untrue.

Why climate science divides people along political lines.