Why I chose ethical investment: influencing companies to be more sustainable
Tim Reynolds is an ethical investor. His prime motivation for investing in this way is his keen interest in the environment and his desire to encourage companies to be more sustainable. A retired chartered mechanical engineer, he lives in Sheffield with his wife and has a son and a...
Opting for ethical investment will help ‘drag along mainstream funds’
Ahead of the publication of our Guide to Ethical Financial Advisers, Alex Blackburne speaks to Graham Walton, a specialist ethical financial adviser at Sheffield-based PHFS Wealth Management, who firstly describes how he got into the green and ethical industry. I did a degree in accounting and finance, which I finished...
Some corporate social responsibility has ‘gone stale’
On April 15, an event in London will question whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) has reached its sell-by date. Hosted and produced by Responsible 100, Be Inspired Films and Kyocera Document Solutions, the interactive panel discussion forms part of Business in the Community’s Responsible Business Week 2013. After hearing the thoughts of Kyocera’s...
Bees; the budget; climate change in schools: March in headlines
Here, Blue & Green Tomorrow rounds up some of March’s biggest headlines – a month that rippled with debates over the protection of bees, the removal of climate change from parts of the national curriculum and George Osborne’s latest budget speech. According to a study published in the Nature...
Last minute tips: all you need to know about ISAs
With the deadline for 2012/13 ISAs only a day away, Blue & Green Tomorrow is on hand with some last minute information into the ethical options. ISAs, or individual savings accounts, essentially allow you to save money without offloading a portion to the taxman. If you’ve got a sweet...
Responsible and independent tour operators: Archipelago Choice
Continuing our series profiling members of the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO), Ian Coates, managing director of Archipelago Choice, writes about one of its most popular tourist destinations. This piece originally featured in B>’s Guide to Sustainable Tourism 2013. Straddling the mid-Atlantic ridge around 950 miles west of Lisbon lies the...
Jane Goodall: ‘If humans are the most intelligent beings on Earth, why are we destroying it?’
Dame Jane Goodall is a world-renowned pioneer in the study of chimpanzee behaviour, a UN messenger of peace, an ethologist and an anthropologist – one who has made fascinating advances in our perception of the connection between primates and humans. Today, on Goodall’s 79th birthday, Emma Websdale looks back...
Responsible investment terms: what is engagement and voting?
Last time around, we explored what environmental, social and governance (ESG) meant. Today, we find out how investors can act to ensure that the ethical standards of companies are maintained. The best way for investors to influence a company’s policies and decisions, in order to make sure that it is...
‘Corporate social responsibility is an attitude of mind’
On April 15, an event in London will question whether corporate social responsibility (CSR) has reached its sell-by date. Hosted and produced by Responsible 100, Be Inspired Films and Kyocera Document Solutions, the interactive panel discussion forms part of Business in the Community’s Responsible Business Week 2013. Blue &...
Are capitalism and conservation incompatible?
An article we wrote in February, Free markets need to be free, prompted a little Twitter debate when published. There is the honestly and strongly held belief that free markets are the implacable foe of sustainability. The demands of a free market economy are incompatible with the needs of viable...
Governments must ‘get’ sustainability to truly capitalise on UK innovation
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards have come and gone for another year, with Ecology Building Society scooping the sought-after Company of the Year award in 2013. Alex Blackburne reflects on the event, and looks at what it might mean for the future of sustainability. The great out-of-consensus entrepreneur Steve...
A responsible tourist considers local communities
Travelling responsibly means that we think about the impact that our holidays have – not only on the environment, but also on local communities. Ahead of this bank holiday weekend, Ilaria Bertini takes a look at Easter Island, a remote island in the Pacific Ocean that is in a...
Lies from politicians and the media ‘create harmful divisions in society’
A recent report by a coalition of religious institutions sought to dispel a number of myths relating to poverty. Kate Pickett, co-author of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always do Better, writes about the unforgivable role played by politicians and the media in creating these misconceptions. The most...
Extreme weather is not a ‘pub bore’s forecast’
In yesterday’s Times, Rupert Murdoch’s favourite climate writer, Conservative peer Matt Ridley, attacked anecdotes about extreme weather as those of a pub bore. Apparently, Arctic springs and angry summers are “not oddities“. ‘Keep calm, move along, nothing to see here’, is the increasingly tired mantra of climate change deniers....
Coalition’s green fatigue is a ‘betrayal of conservatism itself’
London Evening Standard columnist Amol Rajan has criticised the coalition’s green commitments, saying the environmental measures in George Osborne’s budget last week were “pitiful” and that the current government’s lethargic approach to the environment was a “betrayal of conservatism itself”. In his weekly column, Rajan emphasised how we had...
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