Why sustainable investment? Because there is no plan(et) B
In the book Pale Blue Dot*, Carl Sagan, the astronomer and author, described Earth as “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam“. Earth is vulnerable and tiny, in a vast emptiness. Maybe we should look after it better; after all, it’s the only planet we’ve got. ‘Profit is...
Wind farm syndrome: it’s all in the mind
The cause of wind farm syndrome was attributed to the psychological effects of anti-wind campaigning, according to a study released last week by public health scientists at Sydney University. Emma Websdale looks into it. Sleepless nights, increased blood pressure and high glucose levels are among some of the most...
Why sustainable investment? Because it is the right thing to do
Greed, selfishness, recklessness, inequality and isolation seem to be the hallmarks of our modern world. Yet philanthropy, charitable giving, volunteering and social enterprise are stable or growing. Doing the ‘right thing’ seems to be as innate to our species as doing the ‘wrong thing’. Yesterday, we explored how sustainable investment makes sense on purely...
Post-horsemeat burgers, has Tesco returned to business as usual already?
In response to Tesco’s statements about the horsemeat scandal, I offered a spoof apology for the supermarket chain: the apology I wished it would have offered. Over the following weeks, the ads kept coming. Tesco bought up full page and double page spreads across the print media, which were...
Why sustainable investment? Because it makes sense
Blue & Green Tomorrow openly bangs the drum for sustainable, responsible and ethical investment. Not because of some misty-eyed sentimentalism, but because smart companies and investors see the medium to long-term benefits of such a strategy. At the most basic level, companies that use more resources than they need (energy,...
Time to offload the high-risk, low-return carbon assets
Shareholders are increasingly feeling disgruntled, and rightly, by the risks fossil fuel companies are taking with their money. Gyorgy Dallos of Greenpeace International writes how investors of oil and coal assets face a swiftly deteriorating deal. In a landscape of increasing operative and regulatory risks and low interest rates,...
Responsible and independent tour operators: Adventure Alternative
This is the second instalment of a new series profiling members of the Association of Independent Tour Operators (AITO). Next up: Adventure Alternative. Director and founder Gavin Bate chats with Blue & Green Tomorrow. This piece originally featured in B>’s Guide to Sustainable Tourism 2013. Describe Adventure Alternative in one sentence....
We can no longer sit comfortably with the myths behind poverty
According to a recent report, the media has created a number of myths about poverty, which has led the most vulnerable being blamed for the UK’s economic woes. Given sustainability is about the environment, economy and society (the ‘S’ in ESG), Emma Websdale decided to dig deeper into its findings....
Responsible investment terms: what is CSR?
After the publication of R Edward Freeman’s Strategic management: a stakeholder approach in 1984, a divide was formed between those businesses that believed that long-term profits were achievable only by considering the effects on society and their shareholders, and those that felt this approach was a waste of time...
‘The government just needs to stop politicking and meddling in renewables’
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 take place on Thursday in London, and are preceded this year by a conference for the first time. Alex Blackburne caught up with one of last year’s winners – Adrian Reed, a managing director at Altium Capital, which won Advisory Firm of...
The budget speech we want to see
The budget takes place this Wednesday. Faced with the loss of the UK’s AAA rating and the inexorably rising public debt, the chancellor will feel his hands are tied and tens of billions of pounds worth of further cuts need to be proposed. This is the speech we want...
Today’s The Times leader written honestly
This is an adapted version of today’s leader from The Times, entitled Paper Chase. To read the original article, click here (paywall). *** Paper Tigers Regardless of how the House of Commons votes this evening on David Cameron’s proposal for the regulation of the press, today is a sad day...
On this day in 1967: the Torrey Canyon tanker spill
Forty-six years ago today, over 10,000 tonnes of crude oil spilled out of the supertanker Torrey Canyon and into waters just off the south-west coast of England – in what was only the fourth spill in history. Nowadays, many more than this number occur every single year. Despite the Torrey...
Defenders of a free press are being dishonest
Lord Justice Leveson’s epic inquiry and report laid out a clear route to a self-regulated press underpinned by statute. It had flaws, but any solution would. Despite promising to implement anything but a “bonkers” plan, the prime minister has ruled out the recommended statutory underpinning, opting instead for a...
TED talks: who controls the world? – James B Glattfelder
After the publication of our Guide to Ownership 2013 today, it seems only right that in this week’s featured TED talk, James B Glattfelder talks about how the natural environment’s interconnected systems need to be transferred to the field of economics. In the video below, Glattfelder, a Swiss physicist, says,...
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