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...
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
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...
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,...
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...
EU pesticide ban; Co-op deal breakdown; Earth Day: April in headlines
Here, Blue & Green Tomorrow rounds up some of April’s biggest headlines – a month in which Earth Day took place, the EU voted to ban the use of harmful pesticides and the Co-operative Bank pulled out of a deal to buy 632 Lloyds branches. A number of studies...
Finance that turns people’s lives around: social impact bonds
Blending social investment, public funding and social enterprise, social impact bonds are a groundbreaking way of raising private funds to finance essential public services. Public contracts are awarded on a payment-by-results basis, so investors are only rewarded if a set of agreed social outcomes are met. At a time...
Getting beneath nuclear power
We are facing an energy crisis. Fossil fuel reserves will eventually run out and so we urgently need to find cleaner and more sustainable sources of energy. Renewables certainly represent a large part of the solution. Wind and solar technologies are rapidly growing and some estimates say that by 2050, Europe could...
Film review: Village at the End of the World
Climate change is likely to bring about massive transformations unless we act to create a more sustainable society. The developing world is least culpable for the mess we’re in, but most at risk by the impacts. The people of Greenland, in particular, know how unjust this fact is. Village...
A new beginning for sustainable investment in the UK
The UK’s sustainable investment industry has a new face among its leaders. Alex Blackburne spoke with Simon Howard, who on Tuesday began work as chief executive of the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance Association (UKSIF). Around 24 hours ago, the sports world was rocked when Sir Alex Ferguson revealed...
May’s top 10 green crowdfunding projects
Crowdfunding by entrepreneurs and small businesses is becoming an ever-more popular way of securing funds to kickstart exciting and innovative ideas. In April, we brought you the 10 best green crowdfunding projects that we could find (a few of which are still accepting investment) and we’ve done the same again...
Ethical IFA of the week: Equity Invest
There are plenty of independent financial advisers (IFAs) across the country who give advice on ethical and environmental investments. Our job is to tell you about them. Equity Invest is an independent financial advisory firm based in Wimbledon Village in London. Speaking to Blue & Green Tomorrow in January...
The diversity of renewables
Critics of renewables are often given powerful platforms to voice their opinions. This vocal minority skew the debate, especially when polls suggest the majority of the public is in favour. But, as Emma Websdale outlines, the story of clean, renewable, domestic energy is far greater than just wind and...
UKIP’s success in the local election is a rallying cry for smaller parties
The electoral rise of ‘others’, spoiled ballot papers and none of the above options demonstrate that democracy is going through a period of systemic change. We should embrace it, as it injects energy into our moribund political system. Green party leader Natalie Bennett told the BBC on the day after...
It’s banking, but not as we know it! Ecology Building Society’s AGM
“Any other business?” asked Ecology Building Society chair Malcolm Lynch, obligatorily, at the end of the organisation’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Leeds last month. A man in the audience stood up. “I’d just like to thank everyone for putting on a fantastic event”, he said. Mumbled agreement from...
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