“The best/worst thing about great design is that you shouldn’t notice it; it should just make your decisions easier and your life run smoother.” So says...
Have you ever felt that you’re too small or insignificant to do something about global warming? Have you ever been told that there’s nothing you, as...
Energy company SSE has announced its customers will see an average 8.2% price rise in their energy bills from November 15. The rest of the big...
To coincide with National Ethical Investment Week, Hubert Aarts of Impax Asset Management explains how investing ethically across rapidly growing global environmental markets appeals to a...
Paul Hawken is a Californian civil rights activist, environmentalist, businessman and author. Fortune named him the “original hippie entrepreneur” in 2002, and he coined the phrase...
Green energy company Ecotricity and car manufacturer Volkswagen are joining forces to offer 100% green electricity to all owners of an electric vehicle (EV) from the...
A cross-party group of MPs has warned that the government’s flagship energy efficiency scheme, the green deal, might not be influential enough to meet the UK’s...
Renewable energy organisations have criticised the Taxpayers’ Alliance after it claimed that government subsidies for the industry are set to soar to £5 billion by 2018....
The supplier of the UK’s gas and electricity has said that the difference between power generated and energy demand might be tighter than ever this winter,...
A new study has outlined how investors and campaigners can effectively leverage their collective influence to get the most out of the fossil fuels divestment movement....
Fracking poses a “serious threat” of water contamination, including in drinking water, according to a report that also claims that 280 billion gallons of radioactive waste...
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla are part of a group of investors who have collectively pledged $8m towards the second round of...
Skeptical Science blogger Graham Wayne unpicks the errors in Lord Lawson’s latest attack on the science of climate change. Last week, the IPCC released its latest report...
If the idea of the Higgs boson meant an urgent requirement of big business to change its thinking and its profits, would we frequently hear Nigel...
Advocacy group Corporate Accountability International (CAI) has called on the World Bank to stop investing in private water firms, as it say they are compromising the poorest...