Environmentality columns

Can Avatar change the world?

  • Sunday, February 21, 2010
  • By Victoria Yates

It’s a tale as old as time. Blue aliens with loin-cloths and (ever so slightly unsettling) wormlike tail ends, live in a harmonious natural rhythm with their planet until corporate America comes to blow it to damnation in an attempt to amass a fortune selling “unobtainium” (who knew Bush had... »

Environmentality: Focus on the big energy wasters in society, not me!

  • Friday, January 15, 2010
  • By Holly Thompson

Ok, I’ll be honest with you. I am no eco-warrior. I like having baths, I often relish being given plastic bags in shops and the only animals I care about are ones with sleeves and a zip. But this is not to say that I don’t care about the environment, or the wasteful way... »

Environmentality: Screw the pandas, it’s time to get serious about conservation

  • Saturday, November 7, 2009
  • By Dominic Rowland

I did something today that you should never do.  I went on youtube, searched for ‘pandas’ and read the users comments.  Skipping over the usual display of unabashed ignorance (“are they like going extinct and stuff?”) one comment in particular caught my eye.   The self-styled user “BambooSue” had commented “LOL LOL LOL! OMG, soooooooo... »

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