Housing charity Shelter claim that almost a million people have turned to controversial payday loan schemes in order to pay their mortgage or rent. Labour and Co-operative...
From March 2011, credit unions in England, Scotland and Wales added 77,000 members in 12 months, bringing the total number of people in credit unions in...
Andrew Morton, account director at Footprint Renewables, describes how renewable energy – which by definition is dependable, predictable and sustainable – can be the driving force...
In the UK, 2012 has been an interesting year for ethical investment. Big scandals have hit big banks, consumer protests and investor revolts on tax avoidance...
Twelve years ago today, the US Supreme Court gave a ruling that declared George W Bush the country’s 43rd president. Now that the dust has settled...
After global climate negotiations in Doha wrapped up at the weekend, Steve Trent, executive director of the Environmental Justice Foundation (EFJ), writes about how climate change...
Boris Johnson’s Telegraph column yesterday lauded fracking as “an answer to the nation’s prayers“. But, in a piece that originally appeared on his blog, Tim Fenton unpicks Johnson’s article, which...
It’s been just over a week since the government unveiled the energy bill. The pantomime politics around its publication have made for an energy drama that...
A recent discussion forum organised by the EIRIS Foundation in association with Oxfam brought NGOs and investors together to explore what a responsible approach to investments...
I have been an avid watcher of the community energy sector and personally did a lot of the preparatory work into a community wind turbine, which...
For the 18th UN Climate Change Conference around 20,000 people from over 190 countries have boarded planes to stay in air-conditioned hotels and produce huge amounts...
Earlier this week, the World Bank published a report warning of the dramatic consequences of climate change and called on governments around the world to redirect...
This time last week, I was at the top of an 80 metre smoke stack at the new West Burton gas-fired power station, bidding my friends...
It is relatively easy to make wild promises, being an unelectable third candidate in US politics. The Green Party’s Jill Stein has a tendency to throw...
At an event hosted by Ingenious Clean Energy, renowned environmentalist Jonathon Porritt asks whether we’re at the point at which our circularity with energy gets broken,...