Measuring your carbon footprint can be a complex process. How Bad Are Bananas? gives the carbon footprint on a wide variety of products, activities and food,...
Government plans to introduce a sustainability criteria into the biomass sector have created a division between the renewable energy industry and green campaigners. The plans, which...
“What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?” ponders Amory Lovins, chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, in this week’s featured...
Neil Brown, sustainable and responsible investment (SRI) fund manager at Alliance Trust Investments, writes why healthier food is an increasingly important sustainability theme. The drive for...
The answer to the headline of this piece is, at the moment, no. But it’s the wrong question. The current investment risk is systemic. Sustainability means...
The political activism group 38 Degrees has warned that it faces its “biggest ever threat”, in the form of a bill being passed through parliament which...
Former chancellor of the exchequer Alistair Darling has criticised the controversial, multi-billion pound HS2 rail line, which he says has “highly contentious” economic benefits. Writing in...
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has commissioned a study to find out the effect of energy projects – including shale gas and...
A study by the consumer organisation MoneySupermarket.com has suggested that 13 million drivers across the UK waste up to £21 a month driving out of their...
We recently reported on the strong relative performance of ethical funds. We contacted a well-paid head of investment research, who succinctly harrumphed, “Not over the long-term.” True, many investors...
