The Observer has drawn up the shortlist for its annual Ethical Awards, celebrating projects, businesses and campaigns that are making sustainability a reality. Now in its...
Since the WWF’s Climate Savers Programme began in 1999, member companies of the initiative have jointly slashed 100m tonnes off their carbon emissions total. The encouraging...
Prince Charles spoke on Tuesday at the World Fisheries Congress 2012 about his beliefs that fisheries of the future could be sustainable. Opening the ceremony alongside...
While most eyes converge on virtuous visions of sporting glory at the Olympics, a coalition of US and UK socially responsible investors wishes to shift focus...
The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) is working towards the illegalisation of incinerators, but why? Picture this, you and your family are spending your summer...
In her speech to parliament this morning, the Queen outlined plans for water and energy bills to be introduced, as well as banking reforms and the...
Sustainable investment, ethical investment, socially responsible investment – call it what you will; it is what the veteran investment guru Matthew Kiernan calls “investing as if...
Durban, the fourth largest city in South Africa, has made plans to become a world leader in ocean current energy as it endeavours to put an...
Lord Smith, chairman of the Environment Agency, has given his support to the expansion of the controversial ‘fracking’ method of extracting natural gas from shale rock...
Some 80,000 jobs and a GDP contribution of €3.9 billion could be attributed to Ireland’s cleantech sector by 2020, according to an Ernst & Young report....