The eighth property in our cottages4you series is The Old Mill in Taunton – an authentic cottage set beside a lake in the beautiful Somerset countryside....
Nominations have opened for the sustainable finance category of the Sustainable City Awards 2012 – an awards ceremony that acknowledges “excellence in the field of sustainable...
The oil-rich state of Saudi Arabia is planning to generate 100% of its energy from clean and low-carbon sources, according to a member of the country’s...
The news that a Brazilian student has sold her virginity for $780,000 has caused outrage online. Fourteen ‘men’ from Brazil, India, Australia and the US competed...
“Energy consumed by the United States in one year equals the energy made by the Sun in one millionth of a second”, tweeted astrophysicist Neil deGrasse...
A group of high-profile investors has called for a number of FTSE 350-listed companies that have performed poorly in reducing carbon in the past, to implement...
There was surprise Wednesday morning in the offices of Cheviot that the story had leaked from Quilters that the venture capital house Bridgepoint are looking to...
The Moroccan Agency for the Development of Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency (ADEREE) has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Desertec Foundation, in order to...
Cutthroat, challenging, lucrative; just three words that can be used to describe the advertising industry. But there is one company striving to break the mould –...
A responsible investment campaign group has called for James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert, to step down from his position on BSkyB’s board, saying he...
The fifth annual National Ethical Investment Week was, by all accounts, a roaring success. As was France’s version of the event – La Semaine de l’Investissement...
Judging by our traffic on the day, lots of people were interested in a spat between Blue & Green Tomorrow and the Investors Chronicle during National...
The future head of Britain’s new banking regulator has warned that banks will be allowed to fail. Andrew Bailey will run the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)...
The United Nations was born out of the ruins of the second world war. It replaced the ill-fated League of Nations, which had failed to prevent...
An intergovernmental food security body linked with the United Nations has set the ball rolling on plans to begin a two-year consultation process for the development...