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...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) AR5 report, published two weeks ago, was scientists’ surest declaration yet of the certainty of human-caused climate change. It...
Environmental issues remain the key driver for investors who want to invest their money ethically or sustainably, according to an ongoing survey by Blue & Green...
The Green Investment Bank (GIB) has successfully refinanced a 20% stake in London Array, the world’s largest offshore wind farm, which was previously financed by UAE...
Nine clean technology companies from the UK have been recognised in the fifth annual Global Cleantech 100 – a list that charts some of the most...
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has highlighted the vital role of water in sustainable development during a speech at the Budapest Water Summit. In his opening remarks,...