Which? energy suppliers top the tables?
After coming out on top of the annual Which? customer satisfaction survey this year, Graeme Rushin, head of customer care at 100% renewable energy supplier, Good Energy, explains what makes its team so good. It may be icy outside but we’ve got some heart-warming news. We’re very proud that
Corporate spending to grow to £6.8 billion by 2015
The amount that UK firms spend on sustainability and energy initiatives is set to grow by 16% a year until 2015. Charlotte Reid has more. Green businesses will continue to defy what is happening to the rest of the UK’s economy, according to a report from independent analysts Verdantix.
‘Better growth opportunities’ elsewhere, as Aviva closes SRI arm
Investment group Aviva has closed its SRI section in favour of a new Global Responsible Investment team. Alex Blackburne looks into the decision. Aviva has announced it is to scrap its sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) team, under a number of structural changes happening at the investment group.
CDP work recognised by global prize
The Carbon Disclosure Project has been awarded the Zayed Future Energy Prize at the World Future Energy Summit. Alex Blackburne looks into the UK-based company’s outstanding achievements over the past year. Industry recognition for one’s work is valuable. For the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP), acknowledgement doesn’t come from a...
We’re not all in it together: the rise of bloated capitalism
Following David Cameron’s speech on moral capitalism last week, Julian Parrott, partner at Ethical Futures, writes how not everyone is in the same boat of austerity. ”Capitalism”, he says, “has grown to bloated excess”. Fine words and some valid comments and ideas but I...
Green Dragon: Kelly Evans
For businesses to survive they must stand for something other than profit – according to Kelly Evans from Social Change. Charlotte Reid spoke to her to find out how she is convincing companies to change their behaviour for good. Our previous Green Dragons have wanted to help the environment by...
CBI and Green Alliance cautious over Green Deal
Charlotte Reid writes how yet more voices have been added to the concerns over the effectiveness of the Government’s Green Deal, a flagship energy efficiency scheme. The CBI, a business lobbying organisation, and the think-tank Green Alliance have expressed concern over new environmental legislation, the Green Deal. They warn that...
Greenpeace darkens site for internet censorship
Greenpeace’s website darkened in support of Wikipedia and other websites against the US government who are debating bills that censor the internet. Charlotte Reid has more. The Greenpeace UK website went into blackout for 12 hours between 1pm until 1am yesterday in protest of the proposed Stop Online Privacy Act...
A multi-asset fund with a healthy, sustainability-centred balance
Camilla Ritchie, investment manager at Seven Investment Management, spoke to Alex Blackburne about their Sustainable Balance Fund – a fund that aims to achieve equilibrium between income and capital, with an underlying sustainability theme. The investment sector often isn’t for the faint-hearted. Certainly, given the current volatility of stock markets...
The positive impact of responsible investment ‘cannot be understated’
Bill Weil, chief investment officer of Ludgate Environmental, whose fund invests in innovative cleantech companies, spoke to Alex Blackburne about the criticality of investing sustainably. Shamefully, the responsible investment sector has its doubters. Despite all the positives that can be drawn from your money making a difference, there are some...
“Be part of the system”: Equity Invest urges individuals to do the right thing with their money
Richard Hunter, director at Equity Invest, believes investments aren’t all about making profit. He spoke to Alex Blackburne about why people should avoid being greedy and instead be part of the ethical investment system. Greed is a personality trait that not many people will admit to possessing. Indeed, most would...
Widespread ethical investment could change the world ‘dramatically’
Christian Thal-Jantzen, an independent financial adviser at Bromige, spoke to Alex Blackburne about how human beings have created the world in which we live, making it our job to act differently in order to change it. In the beginning, there wasn’t much. Then came man. With our poisonous cars and...
Green by name, green by nature: Helping people do what they can, where they can
Ian Green, director of Green Financial Advice, spoke to Alex Blackburne about his role in giving clients an ethical choice when it came to their investments. If you’re interested in getting into the financial advisory world and your surname is ‘Green’, you must think that it’s the universe’s way of...
The beautiful game on the beautiful planet
Alex Blackburne explores the ugly truth behind the environmental impact of football, and the measures that some in the sport are taking to turn things around. Football may have the age-old moniker of 'the beautiful game' attached to it, but when it comes to being a sustainable sport, the word...
“People are good”: Smythe & Walter offer an ethical choice and peace of mind
Rob Steadman discusses apathy, the future, and having the best of both worlds with Lee Smythe, the managing director of Smythe & Walter Chartered Financial Planners. Apathy and denial are the twin nemeses of sustainable living. For years, some politicians and scientists have tried to stall change by downplaying and...
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