Google have just announced an interesting new initiative - Google.org is soon to roll out free software which allows people to track their home electricity use and improve energy efficiency in a bid to help mitigate global warming. Read more >

Google PowerMeter, ...

...which makes the rationale for National’s just- announced road building bonanza ridiculous. National argues that building roads is better for the environment because if you build a new road/expand an existing road there will be less traffic congesti... Read more >

An important gathering of about 2,000 climate scientists has just wrapped up in Copenhagen. They’ve been meeting this week to talk through latest science, in order to have some concrete recommendations to give negotiators at the final UN climate talks... Read more >

In this video the economist Nicholas Stern discusses the 'economic downturn' and its effect on the climate change agenda.

The economic slowdown has prompted some public and private leaders to question whether the world can afford to addre... Read more >

The Ecologist Film Unit's second release documents how espionage, news manipulation, legal threats and even violence have become the knee-jerk response of Government and big business to the increasingly vocal concerns of environmental protesters in th... Read more >

What’s blue, wet and feeling sick? Our ocean. It’s no joke. According to legendary ocean advocate Sylvia Earle our planet is facing a major coronary attack if we don’t look after its blue heart.

She says the oceans are our life support system, generati... Read more >

Imagine your surprise if you discovered our tax dollars were being spent on teaching sheep to fly. Don’t panic, it’s an absurd idea. Now you have an insight into how people in Japan feel when they hear they are subsiding the country’s whaling industry... Read more >