by Kate Martin - Last week saw the launch of Surya, a nighclub in Kings Cross claiming to be the world's first ecological club.

by Kate Martin - It's always nice to see a big corporation or event jumping on the eco-bandwagon and trying to do their bit.

by Kate Martin - You may have read in last week's newsletter a story about a Japanese company which says it has developed a fuel cell that can produce electricity from water using no outside energy, and use it to power an electric car.

by Kate Martin - I went to Royal Ascot on Wednesday.

by Kate Martin - I hate public transport.

by Kate Martin - But I don't think anyone made it clear just how hard it can be sometimes.

by Sam Bond - Working on a pro-environmental website makes you an obvious target for the climate change deniers, and here at edie we often receive emails along the lines of 'water vapour and solar activity are responsible for global warming, we're not to blame, we can carry on as we always have'.

by Diana Verde Nieto - There's no such thing as a free lunch.

by Sam Bond - Let's assume for a moment that the climate change deniers have it right - that mankind's contribution to the make-up of the atmosphere is so insignificant the very thought that we could influence trends in the weather is laughable.

by Sam Bond - It's long been recognised that the lack of regulation when it comes to making claims about offsetting undermines what might otherwise be an extremely useful weapon in the carbon-reducing arsenal.

by Sam Bond - Went to Monkey World in Dorset at the weekend to gen up on primate conservation.

by Sam Bond - This week's budget shows every sign of being about as green as nipping down the local shops in a helicopter, showing once again that when it comes to protecting the environment, talk is cheap.

by Natasha Wiseman - It was interesting to read in the House of Lords Select Committee report on Economic Regulators that regulation in the newly privatised industries back in the 1980s was conceived as "a means of 'holding the fort' until the competition arrives".

by Tom Idle - Last month I travelled to Africa, visiting Kenya and Uganda on a mission to find out how a Western multinational company is operating within the developing world, while at the same time managing to maintain its sustainability credentials.

by Goska Romanowicz - Monkeys, cows, elephants - many of India's animals are sacred for Hindus. As the human population explodes, it is getting increasingly difficult for people and animals to live side by side as they have traditionally.

by Goska Romanowicz - The Dalai Lama's green preaching filters down to everyday life in Dharamsala

by Goska Romanowicz - Cycling across Asia - my current 'job' having left the edie editorial team in June - has proved to be the perfect position from which to explore the continent's eco-issues.

by Sam Bond - Are the papers publishing scare stories about the dreaded bug in the bin working to a warped agenda or just too lazy to look at the facts?

by Goska Romanowicz - This week's ruling of the US Supreme Court ruling against the Bush Administration on carbon emissions brought back a long recurring question - is climate change a threat to Americans' health and wellbeing?

by Goska Romanowicz - Fear of "weird weather" is one of the main reasons Americans are starting to get worried about climate - but their fears could be fuelling climate sceptics' arguments, as extreme weather is one global warming effect that is difficult to prove.