How to talk renewables so farmers and landowners listen
A survey by Energy Now magazine in January this year revealed two startling statistics: 95% of farmers and landowners believe renewable energy will be vital to the future of farming in the UK, but 42% are confused about renewable energy options. For many farmers and landowners renewable energy is a must-have, not an...
TED talks: averting the climate crisis – Al Gore
On this day in 2006, one of the environmental movement’s most seminal documentary films – An Inconvenient Truth - premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. This week’s featured TED talk is from the film’s star, former US vice-president Al Gore. Filmed in February 2006, three months before An Inconvenient...
Does Griff Rhys Jones have a point about renewable energy?
Many of us who were around at the time were big fans of Alas Smith & Jones (1984-1998). Alas, Griff Rhys Jones has recently become embroiled in a row over energy policy and the location of solar farms. It has been known for some time that Rhys Jones objected...
A sustainable versus unsustainable recovery
This week, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) called for more effort by the UK government to stimulate a strong and sustainable recovery. Simon Leadbetter lays out what would define a sustainable recovery. A sustainable recovery is one that creates a viable economy over the long-term, not short-term growth in time...
On this day in 2006: Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth premieres at Sundance Film Festival
Seven years ago today, former US vice-president Al Gore’s documentary film about global warming – An Inconvenient Truth – premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Since then, it has become one of highest grossing documentaries of all time, won two Academy Awards and turned into a seminal film for the...
L’investissement responsable: a glance at France’s responsible investment market
They have spectacular architecture, some of history’s finest artists and produce over 240 types of cheese. And when it comes to sustainable and responsible investment (SRI), our neighbours across the Channel in France are very much key players. What does SRI mean? Is it socially responsible investment or sustainable...
Responsible investment can help crack down on tax avoidance
This week, two corporate giants, Amazon and HSBC, hold their AGMs and although the worlds of the internet and investment may be very different, their shareholders are raising the same concern: that aggressive tax avoidance strategies may be hurting the long-term value of the company. Amazon has been criticised...
What’s gone wrong with finance?
In the last 12 months, the mainstream banks have become embroiled in yet more scandals, crises and irresponsibility. In an extract from a recent talk, Ecology Building Society chief executive Paul Ellis investigates the scale of their troubles, and ponders why the current system is unsustainable. How do you...
Investing for a rainy day of biblical proportions
A recent report by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) estimated that if no further precautions are taken by 2050, floods are likely to affect between 1.66-3.64 million people in the UK. Emma Websdale caught up with Dan Montagnani, director of environmental risk analysts GroundSure, to get advice...
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Are we the zealots of a new religion; an environmental Taliban that is silencing dissent? Not really
In three years of publishing Blue & Green Tomorrow and seven looking into the economic, environmental and investment potential of clean technology, the language of those who deny human-caused climate change has morphed into something more aggressive; and their effort to spread disinformation and doubt more desperate, elaborate and...
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Bruce Davis, Abundance: ‘we can do something different with money’
After helping launch peer-to-peer lending site Zopa 10 years ago, Bruce Davis is now co-founder of renewable energy platform Abundance Generation. Here, in an extract from a recent talk, he looks at why alternative finance is better for everyone. It’s surprising how long it’s taken for people to get...
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...
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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