In this week’s featured TED talk, Margaret Heffernan tells the story of a woman named Gayla Benefield, who worked in the isolated town of Libby, Montana...
The US president has said that Sweden is “far ahead of many other countries” when it comes to clean energy and added that it can teach...
Malcolm Gladwell’s new book, David and Goliath, is set for release next month and is already on the reading list of many. Following the tone of...
A corporate salesman, played by Matt Damon, arrives at a rural town with his sales partner. The town has been hit hard by the economic decline...
Fracking is not “the evil thing that some people try to make it out to be,” the UK energy secretary Ed Davey has claimed. Davey, who...
The Trade Union Congress (TUC) has spoken out against the luxurious increase of directors’ pensions, which are now 25 times higher than those of ordinary employees....
The Ethical & Green Innovations supplement will serve as a comprehensive guide to the best value and most innovative products available for UK consumers and businesses. You might recognise one...
Warming caused by human activities played a key role in 6 out of 12 extreme weather events that occurred last year, according to a new report....
A Bangladeshi union leader has arrived in London ahead of the city’s fashion week to demand a living wage for the workers of factories like the...
The hole in the earth’s stratospheric ozone layer over Antarctica is slowly closing, but its effect on climate change is still uncertain, a scientist has claimed....
These are loans offered by retail investors to trading companies in return for interest on their money, in effect replacing the role the banks once took....
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work. Pliny...
An environmental campaign group has called proposals to offset the destruction of wildlife “a license to trash nature”. The UK government has announced plans to compensate...
A week on Sunday, the world marks five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the spark for the worst global downturn since the Great Depression....
Free and fair markets, accountable and representative democracy, sustainable economics and the rule of law, all underpin successful societies. We have drifted very far from these...