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A Tiny Rare Snail In Malaysia Has Big Consequences For Global Cement Giant

Published by Tony Juniper on Mon, 25/08/2014 - 12:00am
For the first time ever, a ‘new’ species has been named after the company that has the power to either conserve or destroy it. It’s a snail and, although small, has the potential to leave a permanent legacy for a giant global business.
The snail in question was recently discovered living on an isolated limestone hill called Gunung Kanthan in the northwest of Peninsular Malaysia – its only known home on Earth.

Where Money Meets Nature

Published by Tony Juniper on Wed, 09/07/2014 - 12:00am
One of the gravest difficulties we face in matching human needs within the capacity of what the Earth can indefinitely provide comes down to how we've come to see economy and ecology somehow locked in an irreconcilable struggle, wherein efforts to protect one inevitably lead to costs for the other. A meeting hosted today by The Prince of Wales at St James's Palace in London will consider a rather different reality.

Time For A Bit of Carrot?

Published by Tony Juniper on Fri, 14/03/2014 - 12:00am
November 1991. I’m outside a B&Q DIY store in North London distributing leaflets to customers. With dramatic pictures of destroyed rainforests, our advice was for people not to buy tropical wood from the company.
The idea was to use consumer power to convince B&Q to be more careful about where it bought its forest products.

How To Really Stop Flooding

Published by Tony Juniper on Wed, 05/02/2014 - 12:00am
The Prince of Wales's visit to the Somerset Levels has once more drawn attention to the dire circumstances faced by thousands of people because of floods. And as more extreme rain drenches the UK, calls for more flood defences and river dredging have predictably become louder. There is, however, another focus that has been hardly mentioned.

Consumerism, Red in Tooth and Claw

Published by Tony Juniper on Fri, 15/11/2013 - 12:00am
 Oxford Street, London. Outside the Primark store near Marble Arch are crowds of aggressive-looking shoppers. Some are wide-eyed and agitated. They clutch bulging bagsa of super-cheap clothing. Some invisible force appears to have gripped them. They are obsessed with shopping.

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