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Low allergen design is a whole building approach that aims to reduce and avoid all known allergens, and to minimize the conditions in which they occur...

As solar photovoltaic panels go mainstream, Eric Gies looks at the environmental impact of making and disposing of themIn recent years the electronics industry has gained notoriety for creating an endless stream of disposable...

Via Press release (Eurekalert) Report from START: Discovery Networks Hostage-Taking a Rare Terror Event U.S. Violent Terror Rarely Against Media, Capital; Rare for Environmentalists COLLEGE PARK, Md. – A new report...

Al Gore’s Church of Climatism has claimed a new glorious martyr. His name is James Lee – the Discovery channel attempted eco-suicide-bomber – and if he’d had his way he wouldn’t have been the...

Reducing funding for household generation of renewable energy will jeopardise job creation and energy security, Huhne is toldA coalition of green, countryside and housing groups has warned energy secretary Chris Huhne not...

Severe weather forces campaigners to give up their perilous position on British-owned rig off the coast of Greenland• Greenpeace 'shuts down' Arctic oil rigFour Greenpeace activists who halted drilling by a British-owned...

Earlier this week my fellow columnist and old Oxford chum Boris Johnson wrote a jolly piece which wittily melded the story of the wheelie-bin cat woman with an account of an agreeable safari he had recently enjoyed with his...

Social networking site under fire over intention to run giant new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricitySocial networking website Facebook is coming under unprecedented pressure from its users to switch to renewable...

Instead of spending taxpayers' money propping up factory farms, UK government should support planet-friendly farming• Guardian campaign Biodiversity 100• Tell us how governments should halt biodiversity lossMankind has...

The ecotard media – led, naturally enough, by the Guardian – has been making great play of “Skeptical Environmentalist” Bjorn Lomborg’s apparent Damascene conversion...

Greenpeace's occupation of an Arctic rig carries a simple message: stop drilling for fossil fuelsTen days ago I received a letter from Cairn Energy, the British company at the centre of Greenpeace's current direct action...

In a long line of victories Cape Wind has won yet another legal battle. Just build the damn thing already, its been almost ten years and a million hearings and legal battles, all of which have favored Cape Wind, this has...

Kuupik Kleist claims environmental campaigners are damaging country's economy by occupy drilling platformThe premier of Greenland has accused Greenpeace of threatening the safety of oil workers and the environment after four...

The world is on the brink of a nuclear power renaissance, say scientists. From SciDev.net, part of the Guardian Environment NetworkThe world is on the brink of a nuclear power renaissance, and developing countries may also...

Environmental campaigners slip through security boats to scale Cairn Energy oil rig in dawn raidGreenpeace claims to have shut down offshore drilling by a British oil company at a controversial site in the Arctic after four...

I’m (almost) always a supporter of ideas that conserve energy or resources. Theoretically then, I’d be for this minimalist bathroom idea show below, made with a minimum of materials, it looks like something from...