The chilling image of a thick, dark cloud reaching from the chimney of a factory owned and operated by Albion Chemicals Ltd. appears to have overstated the effects the accident caused. A week after the event nobody has been reported as injured and no environmental damage is thought to have occurred.
The accident was the result [...]

Today the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is holding its annual World Environment day, a day designed, acording to the UN itself,to ‘give a human face to environmental issues’ and to ‘empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development.’
To that end, the nice men and women with green briefcases and brains have [...]

President George W Bush showed his distrust in a Senate bill that would significantly cut America’s greenhouse gas emissions, claiming that it is not economically feasible and would impose crippling costs both on consumers and “job creators.”
According to scientists, the Climate bill would cut emissions of carbon dioxide by approximately 66 per cent within the [...]

Urban areas such as Natural England’s annual state of the natural environment report claims.
The report states that domestic gardens “make a major contribution to the maintenance of biodiversity and the provision of ecosystem services in urban areas.” Native animals such as the common frog, song thrush and hedgehog are found in significant numbers in urban [...]

The need to develop environmentally friendly housing has become ever more pressing in the past few years. Buildings consume 40% of the world’s total energy and 16% of the water supply. In order to reduce emissions, many people believe it is imperative to learn how to build houses that absorb energy, are durable, and provide [...]

In a recent article for the BBC, Rebecca Swift, global creative planning director for Getty Images, claimed that consumers were being overexposed to ‘green’ images and slogans to such an extent that advertising is experiencing a ‘greenwash’, making consumers immune to the deluge of green used in the media. Swift criticises the use of environmental [...]