Building societies and other customer-owned lenders and deposit takers, known as mutuals, are continuing to play an active role in a mortgage market that is showing...
We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us. Sir Winston Churchill
A species of bee rarely seen in the UK has been found nesting in an Oxfordshire business park. It’s thought that the ivy bees, nesting in...
George Osborne has been criticised after delivering a speech light with positive messages for the green economy at the Conservative party conference. Speaking in Manchester, the...
The secretary of state for the environment has been labelled “a quack”, after saying that there may be advantages to climate change for the UK. On...
A private equity consortium, backed by the Church of England, has bought upto half of the former Williams & Glyn’s branches from the Royal Bank of...
Good Energy, the 100% renewable electricity supplier, is celebrating reaching a major landmark in its continued growth, after welcoming its 100,000th customer. The firm, which was...
Talks must begin now on the world’s ‘carbon budget’, leading economist and expert on climate change Lord Stern has warned. On Friday, the Intergovernmental Panel on...
Sustainability thought leader Will Day told a fascinating – and revealing – anecdote during his keynote speech at Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Sustainable Investment Bootcamp last...
Renewable energy investment platform Abundance Generation has launched its first fixed rate return project – the sixth since the firm launched over a year ago. The...
A group of high-profile investors has called on George Osborne to address the lack of a 2030 decarbonisation target in the energy bill, which they say...
A controversial scheme that aims to boost the housing market, by allowing people in England to take out 95% mortgages, will be launched this week, three...
Scrapping plans to build the controversial HS2 rail link would be “a disaster”, the transport secretary has warned, as David Cameron admitted there is a limit...
Sustainability takes forever. And that’s the point. William McDonough
The chancellor George Osborne has said that he does not want the UK to be at the forefront of efforts to prevent climate change, as the...