Guardian: Ecologist readers will know by now that the magazine is to relaunch online. I want to explain why. There is the unavoidable fact of the recession, and it has played a role. It has long seemed likely that media generally will shift away from print and on to the internet. That change will come sooner because of the recession as magazines struggle to maintain their ad revenue and subscribers. But we have been flirting with the idea of shifting entirely online for a few years, and …