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TED talks: Jennifer Granholm’s clean energy proposal – race to the top!

“Our economic competitors are eating us for lunch, and we can get in the game or not. We can be at the table, or we can be on the table.” These are the rousing words of US politician Jennifer Granholm in a TED talk about renewable energy from...


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Is Hargreaves Lansdown’s head of investment research an ‘open-minded’ climate sceptic?

Dictionaries define research as, “The systematic investigation into and study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.” By any standard, impartial research into climate change has set a very high bar in proving human causation. Climate change will affect investment performance. When the world’s...


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Free markets ‘misrepresent’ our political and economic system

Yesterday, we published the first part of an interview with EcoLabs founder Joanna Boehnert. In response to a Blue & Green Tomorrow article about free markets (Free markets need to be free), Boehnert said on Twitter that it “ entirely to deal with the problem that free markets systemically...


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Small is beautiful: why alternative banks need to step up to the mark

Recent developments at the Co-operative Bank highlight not only the frailty of larger banking institutions, but also the desperate need for sustainable alternatives. First, the Co-operative Group revealed a loss for 2012. Then a deal to buy 632 Lloyds branches – once lauded as “the biggest shake-up in high...


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Google, Amazon, etc: blame tax laws, not the taxman or taxpayer

News broke recently that Amazon pays just £2.4m tax on £4.2 billion sales. Meanwhile, the public accounts committee hauled Google in to explain its tax position. With corporation tax, the primary problem is not the players (companies) or even the referee (HMRC), but instead, those who create the rules...


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On this day in 2000: first Britons reach the Arctic unaided

After travelling across the Arctic for 70 days in freezing temperatures, 13 years ago today, Alan Chambers and Charlie Paton became the first Britons to reach the geographical North Pole unaided. But a place that was once seen as remote and untouched is today one of the most vulnerable...


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Ethical IFA of the week: Green Financial Advice

There are plenty of independent financial advisers (IFAs) across the country who give advice on ethical, sustainable and responsible investment. Our job is to tell you about them. Green Financial Advice is an independent financial advisory firm that primarily operates in pre- and post-retirement, wealth management and tax and...


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Financial Times advises on how to become a shareholder activist

The Financial Times celebrated its 125th anniversary this February. Recognised globally as a member of an elite group of financial newspapers, it is the paper of record for the City and investment in the UK. A piece we read on May 3 pleasantly surprised us. Without fear or favour, the...


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WHEB Asset Management: a year in review

A year ago, the Henderson ‘Industries of the Future’ team merged with WHEB Asset Management, with Tim Dieppe taking over as manager of the IM WHEB Sustainability portfolio. Managing partner George Latham, ex-Henderson, marks the anniversary with a summary of the team’s achievements over the last 12 months. When...


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Using visuals to solve ecological illiteracy

In the first of a two-part interview, Joanna Boehnert, founder of design research studio EcoLabs, speaks to B&GT about the visual communication of complex environmental problems. She begins by outlining the problem she believes her venture is uniquely solving. EcoLabs uses design and educational methods to support learning about...


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Looking forward with WHEB

WHEB Asset Management has come on leaps and bounds since bringing in the Henderson team in May 2012. A year on, Alex Blackburne sat down with managing partner George Latham and founding partner Clare Brook to speak about its success. This article originally appeared in The Guide to Sustainable Investment...


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B******* as usual… #3

This is the third cartoon in our B******* as usual… series, in which we share work by Manchester-based cartoonist Polyp. For more information on Polyp, see our interview with him here.  Previous cartoons: B******* as usual… #1 B******* as usual… #2


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On this day in 1957: first British H-bomb tested in the Pacific

Fifty-six years ago during the Cold War, Britain tested its first nuclear weapon on Malden Island, with many other countries following suit. But these events were not without consequences. Under Operation Grapple, tests ran until 1958, when the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was founded in Britain and moved to the...


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How ethical are the UK’s richest?

In April, the Sunday Times revealed its 2013 Rich List – an annual rundown of the UK’s most affluent tycoons and families. Alex Blackburne looks at the ranking and reveals some uncomfortable home truths about how the wealthiest in our society made their billions. Haroldson Lafayette “HL” Hunt Jr,...


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How denial works: from geocentrism to tobacco to climate change

What links geocentricists to tobacco/cancer link deniers and to the current crop of human-caused climate change deniers? There have always been vested interests, which will do everything in their considerable power to protect the status quo and bend facts to their version of the truth. Those who denied the...


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