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We’ve all become familiar with the fair trade ethos with our food buying, but one person is trying to bring the same values to a very different part of the retail industry. Sam Roddick’s Coco de Mer is a sex shop with an environmentally friendly ethos, selling everything from corsets to clitoris creams.
This series takes us back for a look at the history of environmentalism, which can often be forgotten as we look to the future.
Marx and Engels published the Communist Manifesto in 1848.
Because environmentalism is so focused on the future, it can sometimes forget its past.
An ancient Sumerian goddess stele
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India, the Roman Empire, and the Japanese Edo period.
A painting of the 1778 Bishnoi massacre
As 2008 is a leap year, we all have an extra day to play with at the end of the month.
And both the Big Green Switch and the National Trust are urging people to think of February 29th not just as “any other day” but to make the most of it and do something special with it to help the environment.
If you’re like me, there has been many a time when you’re on your fourth or fifth bottle of beer and you think: “If only drinking was a more environmentally friendly hobby.”
Well crack open an ice-cold bottle of brew and celebrate, because drinking is going green.
Beer and wine retailers across the UK are getting caught up in the latest green trend as they try to cash in on the wave of environmental consumerism. The hot new thing in “green” alcohol retailing at the moment is “lightweight” glass bottles.
Our journey through environmental history has so far taken us from medieval England to ancient India and the Roman Empire.
Today we revisit Japan’s Edo period in the mid-1600s, a time of turmoil that resulted in an amazingly complex environmental policy that still influences our ideas on conservation today.
We’ve bounced from medieval England to ancient India in our series on environmental ideas throughout history.
Image by Frank Zweers
Today we travel back to one of mankind’s greatest civilizations, the Roman Empire.
We’ve bounced from medieval England to ancient India in our series on environmental ideas throughout history.
Image by Frank Zweers
Today we travel back to one of mankind’s greatest civilizations, the Roman Empire.
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Top 4 Environmental Extremist Groups
4. Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
“Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth’s biosphere to returnto good health. Crowded conditions and resource shortages will improve as we become less dense.”
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