Since the turn of the 20th century, ‘consuming’ has gradually become more and more central to our way of life. Consuming is no longer just a...
San Francisco’s public pension fund has decided against dropping its $530m holdings in fossil fuels firms, preferring instead to “engage” with companies to stimulate business changes....
Nearly 3 million investors could consider social investment within the next year, according to a study by the ethical bank Triodos. Surveying the investment habits of...
National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) starts on Sunday, and we’re publishing daily interviews, conducted by Greenhouse PR, with a different ethical investment pioneer each day. Simon Howard, UK...
Investments in small-scale social, environmental and community-based businesses are worth £1.6 billion to the UK economy, according to new figures by investment platform Ethex. Known as...
Businesses, and not governments, NGOs and non-profits, are the most important parts of the solution to many of the massive problems the world faces. That’s according...
National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) starts on Sunday. On each day, we’ll be publishing an interview, conducted by Greenhouse PR, with a different ethical investment pioneer. Kicking...
Values-based banks offer better returns on assets and provide more capital to the real economy than mainstream banks, according to a new report by the Global...
It has been the vogue in the financial press to focus on the concept that investing can be neatly divided between the ethical and the unethical....
Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Social Movement in History Is Restoring Grace, Justice and Beauty to the World is about the many non-profit and community organisations...
Honeybees have been mysteriously disappearing across the plant, and the documentary Vanishing of the Bees examines this phenomenon and the impact it is having. The film...
France’s constitutional court has upheld its national ban on fracking, ruling that the ban is necessary to protect the environment. The court decided on Friday that...
Almost 17 million investors potentially hold assets that would not meet their personal ethical preferences, new research from the ethical bank Triodos shows. The data, which...
Barack Obama has nominated Janet Yellen as the new head of the Federal Reserve – the US central bank. If confirmed, she will become the first...
The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, the Government Pension Fund of Norway (GPF), could begin investing in renewable energy. The country’s newly-formed minority conservative government, which...