Archive for January, 2012

Undercover in Bosnia – how Dutch subsidies prop up intensive farming

Radar, a top current affairs program in Holland, this week carried footage from an Ecostorm investigation in Bosnia examining Dutch subsidies for factory farming systems. Filming undercover, our team of investigators were able to document cruelty at the nation’s biggest farm and a brutal agricultural system that could spread across the country. Reaction to the [...]

The great carbon con – the true cost of offsetting

It is meant to be supporting ’sustainable development’ but the UN’s flagship carbon trading scheme is failing, according to an investigation by the Ecologist Film Unit. On the eve of the Durban climate change talks in December, investigators travelled to Madhya Pradesh in central India to document the impact of a new coal power plant, [...]