Features & opinion: Community, environment, regeneration

07.07.2004 Oil slicks, death-dealing floods and other disasters are the only times environmental issues hit the headlines is the verdict of many leading environmentalists. But Forum for the Future see evidence that television, at least, is beginning to see the environment as less of a fringe issue.

04.06.2004 WWF and SustainAbility are calling on owners of the UK media to give environmental issues more airtime. Speaking at the launch of a new report, released on 3 June, environmental campaigner Jonathan Porritt derided the absence of "fun, intelligent, sexy" programmes about issues such as climate change. Porritt also called on media execs to take responsibility for the negative impacts of their output.

28.05.2004 Oliver Balch notes how the new climate-change disaster movie The Day After Tomorrow has inspired environmental activists.

28.05.2004 By tackling global warming, writes Larry Elliott, Tony Blair can show he is not a US poodle. Contraction and Convergence (C&C), brainchild of the UK-based Global Commons Institute, provides a three-stage blueprint for coping with climate change and the long-term solution that Blair is looking for.

13.04.2004 The UK government's sustainable development strategy is seriously flawed, says the Sustainable Development Commission, chaired by Jonathon Porritt, in a new report featured in The Independent. The report argues for a radical shift of policies away from conventional economic growth and towards the well-being of society and the planet as a whole.

11.03.2004 With the UK government's green light to the growing of GM maize, the rights and wrongs of developing GM technology for farming and food are still widely debated. In OneWorld TV's video debate, recorded in 2003, people for and against GM food talk on the key issues.