Hello again and welcome to our ‘money’ issue of Blue & Green Tomorrow. With the end of the tax year (not to mention the budget) coming up, this...
Lori Heaford uncovers Parrott’s passion for punk. Julian Parrott is an interesting man: an independent financial adviser specialising in ethical investment; a keen activist in the...
David Tebbutt talks with a remarkable and inspirational woman. Silver Top (a pseudonym to protect her) is an ethical investor, but it hasn’t always been that...
Traditional portfolio construction considers geo-political and economic risks. Incorporating climate change risk has proven difficult given the uncertainty regarding global and regional policy to reduce emissions....
David Tebbutt gets to know this profound thinker, iconoclast and provocateur. Stewart Brand is a man who discovers paradigms, figures out how to shift them and...
Can we investors save life on earth? EIRIS’s Mark Robertson believes so. It’s almost two months since delegates from around the world met in Nagoya, Japan,...
Lee Smythe asks what happens to our children in the event of our death. Most people want a better life for their children. But...
Lena Semaan gets hot under her unfashionable collar about the sustainable rag trade. Many of us are more than a bit cynical about the concept of...
Biofuels are touted as environmentally friendly substitutes for fossil fuels. Nick Slawicz drills into the details. In the search for a replacement for petrol and...
Architect Luke Tozer takes a close look at the realities of sustainable housing. Few people commission a home directly. Most houses are provided by builders, developers...
Nick Slawicz takes a look at the environmental merits of our two most popular public transport systems. It has been noted – often jocularly, but...
Forget airport and flight hassles, go continental on a train out of St Pancras suggests Simon Leadbetter. You just have to love plane travel. There’s the...
Caroline Rennie describes how working sustainably can make companies more profitable. In 2005 H Lee Scott, then CEO of Walmart, announced that his company, one of...
Sustainability fund expert, Clare Brook, takes a close look at the strategies being adopted by ethical fund managers. Interest in ethical and sustainable investment has grown...
Juliet Davenport – CEO Good Energy In 1999, with environmental consultancy ESD, Juliet set up the company that would become Good Energy. She became CEO in...