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Sarah has written about a new report from the Social Market Foundation which examines whether community empowerment measures are really effective. Read about it here

Many environmentalists are not impressed, and see green consumerism as at best a diversion, and at worst an intensification of ecologically damaging behaviour, “a pox on the planet”, in George Monbiot’s words.
[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/sep/17/climatechange.consumer]

Will Davies on state intervention in voluntary activity http://potlatch.typepad.com/weblog/2007/09/camerons-nation.html