In the book Pale Blue Dot*, Carl Sagan, the astronomer and author, described Earth as “a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam“. Earth is vulnerable...
Ecology Building Society was last night named Company of the Year at the New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013, for its “committed” work in sustainable finance....
Dedicated ethical bank Triodos has revealed it has reached a financial milestone, after breaking the £500m barrier in its lending to sustainable businesses and organisations. Following...
Populist, pandering and pathetic are all adjectives that lend themselves to George Osborne’s fourth budget speech. Entrepreneurs, businesses, scientists, local communities, parents and NGOs will be rightly dismayed....
George Osborne offered tax breaks for shale gas developments, scrapped a rise in fuel duty and gave backing to more new roads, in a budget statement...
Extensive gas exploration in the UK could lead to an unsustainable and expensive energy future, according to a new study. Natural gas is said to help...
Planning consent was yesterday given to the first new nuclear power station in the UK since 1995 – a decision that environmental groups have condemned. Energy...
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has said that George Osborne is ignoring the vast potential of the UK’s wind, wave and solar resources, by...
The New Energy & Cleantech Awards 2013 take place on Thursday in London, and are preceded this year by a conference for the first time. Alex...
The budget takes place this Wednesday. Faced with the loss of the UK’s AAA rating and the inexorably rising public debt, the chancellor will feel his...
The falling costs of clean energy, particularly solar PV, have boosted the widespread deployment of renewables technologies, according to the Clean Energy Trends 2013 report. The...
The US interior department has banned oil giant Shell from extracting fossil fuels from Arctic waters until it can prove it is 100% able to deal...
A tidal lagoon project at Swansea Bay, set for consultation in the next few weeks, could provide over 100,000 homes in the area with clean, renewable...
Government policies and investment practices are limiting the potential of renewable energy, a study has revealed. The report by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI), entitled The...
Around a third of the UK’s carbon emissions come directly from household energy use – but by 2016, all new homes in the UK are due...