The debate about climate change often creates more heat than light and has become centred on the role or non-role of one gas in our changing...
As 2011 comes to a close, Google has announced its 11th annual Zeitgeist – a collection of data showing its most popular searches. Alex Blackburne explores...
The handling of Henderson Global Investors’ SRI funds is to be transferred to mainstream managers. Alex Blackburne spoke to two ethical financial advisors about how this...
The Queen will now be more environmentally friendly as the final 40 tonne screw for a scheme that will power Windsor Castle was lowered. So will...
Myths and misconceptions about cost surround the renewable energy sector. Alex Blackburne debunks some of them, whilst looking into a new report that predicts future savings...
Alex Blackburne reports on how the world’s third richest man, Warren Buffett, has made plans to buy the $2 billion Topaz solar farm project from First...
The French capital, Paris, is to host an electric car rental scheme in the same vein as London’s Barclays Cycle Hire scheme. But Alex Blackburne asks...
Alex Blackburne explores how Germany became the world leaders in renewable energy, and how the relatively dwindling UK can learn a thing or two from its...
As Vikings the Danes used the power of the wind to drive their longboats across the seas, pillaging and then settling large swathes of land. Now,...
Carbon capture may have faced setbacks, with the Longannet project scrapped in October, and questions have been asked over the Government’s funding of these projects, but...
Alex Blackburne looks into the difficulties surrounding renewable energy storage, and how some new research, conducted at an American university, might have the answer to the...
Simon Leadbetter takes a look at what motivates tens of thousands of people to invest sustainably.
As the nights draw in and we prepare ourselves for the dark economic times ahead, Simon Leadbetter looks at the Autumn Statement and asks, "Was it...
Alex Blackburne explores the ugly truth behind the environmental impact of football, and the measures that some in the sport are taking to turn things around....
The Royal Bank of Scotland has cancelled its sponsorship of next year's Climate Week, after continued allegations of 'corporate greenwash'. Alex Blackburne looks into the nature...