Promising freedom to a select few, free markets appear to have enslaved the vast majority. Is this what we wanted? As Fairtrade Fortnight begins, Simon Leadbetter...
Just days before the Move Your Money Month campaign begins, Barclays Bank has given its customers as good a reason as any to consider switching to...
Wind turbines have been on the receiving end of more criticism this week, most of which revolves around the effect on the rural landscape. Considering the...
Hugh Cuthbert, co-fund manager of the SVM All Europe SRI Fund, spoke with Alex Blackburne to explain how, by investing wisely in willingly-improving companies, his fund...
A report by the Cleantech Group and the WWF has found that Denmark is leading innovation in clean technology, with other parts of Scandinavia, as well...
The start of Fairtrade Fortnight begins with the news that Fairtrade products are continuing to buck the economic trend and look set to continue growing throughout...
Businesses should be aiming to become more energy efficient, and a new virtual tour app from the Carbon Trust allows employees to find out how they...
Peter Gleick, the climate scientist who adopted a fake name to access confidential documents belonging to the Heartland Institute, is on leave from the Pacific Institute,...
Research from eight American institutions led by the University of Florida and University of Michigan, has discovered a correlation between temperature and body size in mammals....
Speaking at the Lionel Robbins Memorial Lectures last week, leading economist Lord Stern said that moving to a low carbon economy would create “investment, opportunity and...
Councils across England and Wales could have over £2 billion of pension funds invested in the tobacco industry. Alex Blackburne questions why, given the increasing number...
Fishermen will be allowed to continue discarding edible fish at sea, with MPs focus on changing fishing methods rather than stopping wasteful practices. A Governmental committee...
Kirkbi, parent company of toy firm Lego, is to invest some 3 billion Danish kroner (£341m) in an offshore European wind farm over the next four...
The Prince of Wales, investment banker Jacob Rothschild and supermarket Sainsbury’s are just three of the big names to have invested in Tamar Energy, a company...
The 2012 National Farmers Union conference focused on how farming can cope in drought conditions and why the environmental agenda must not be ignored. Drought conditions...