----- Forwarded Message ----- From: The Ecologist <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2012, 10:48 Subject: Photo exclusive: the child victims of pesticide poisoning To ensure delivery of these emails to your inbox, please add [email protected] to your email address book. This email was sent to [email protected] by [email protected]. Click here to view it in your browser | Click here to unsubscribe 5th January, 2012 ________________________________ NEWS | GREEN LIVING | INVESTIGATIONS | MAKING A DIFFERENCE | COMMENTS Revealed: the child victims of pesticide poisoning in India Endosulfan is the pesticide of choice for farmers in rural India trying to control insects threatening cashew nut and other crops - but it can have devastating health impacts read more... ________________________________ Who's to blame for supermarket rejection of 'ugly' fruit and vegetables? Fields of wasted crops lie testament to our fussy shopping habits and the refusal of supermarkets to stock edible but less-than-perfect-looking food read more... ________________________________ Can becoming a vegetarian help save the planet? Globally, meat consumption has increased by 20 per cent in the last decade despite concerns about its environmental impact. read more... ________________________________ David Attenborough: Frozen Planet was not alarmist about climate change Attenborough hits back at claims made by former chancellor Nigel Lawson that BBC natural history series lacked objectivity read more... ________________________________ Too clever by half: is technology killing the planet? Technology is constructive but also hugely destructive. It’s high time that we begin to think seriously – and innovatively – about tempering its damaging effects read more... ________________________________ The world's 'alternative' Nobel Prize: an award fit for the 21st century How a rejection by the Nobel Committee spurred Jakob von Uexkull to create the Right Livelihood Award celebrating the solutions helping to ensure a healthy planet and people read more... ________________________________ Ethical food: four new year's resolutions that you can keep It’s resolution time again so start 2012 on an eco-friendly note by cutting out food miles and eating less meat read more... ________________________________ Cetaceans under siege as man-made perils blight the oceans Whales, dolphins and porpoises have no respite from oil and chemicals, fishing nets, shipping, noise pollution and a host of other dangers brought about by man's unrelenting destruction of the oceans read more... ________________________________ Competition: Win a Barefoot SOS skincare set, worth £26.50 The Ecologist is giving five readers the chance to win an SOS skincare set from Barefoot Botanicals, providing a natural alternative to high street skincare products read more... ________________________________ CAMPAIGN HERO: Dave Hampton, the Carbon Coach Dave Hampton on watt's watt in carbon footprints and why he aims to launch a campaign for a million more carbon coaches read more... ________________________________
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