Regular readers will already be familiar with 100% renewable electricity supplier, Good Energy. In the past year, the firm has gone from strength to strength. Its...
Julian Parrott, partner at Edinburgh-based Ethical Futures, reflects on a recent survey that said short-term financial planning was apparent among eight out of 10 individuals who...
After completing an energy technology degree in the early-90s, Howard Johns became an environmental activist, arranging protests against new roads and open cast mining. But in...
Telecommunications giant BT has launched a new initiative that it says will help customers reduce their carbon footprint by “at least three times” its own emissions...
The market share of Britain’s biggest five banks dropped 5 percentage points in 2012, as 2.4 million customers closed their high street accounts in favour of...
Lloyds Banking Group has admitted there were “issues” with the way some of its employees were handling complaints over payment protection insurance (PPI), with banking campaigners...
In a recent blog from the Adam Smith Institute entitled Why we really do want to abolish corporation tax – reason 672, Tim Worstall set out...
The Financial Ombudsman Service has revealed that it receives 7,000 complaints and enquiries a day – a figure that the Move Your Money campaign says should...
Recent developments at the Co-operative Bank highlight not only the frailty of larger banking institutions, but also the desperate need for sustainable alternatives. First, the Co-operative...
Triodos Bank has said it is considering entering the current account market, in an effort to expand the number of full-range ethical banking options for consumers....
The recent financial crisis laid bare the problems of our current capitalist economy, which is increasingly dominated by financial interests. Investments in the real economy are...
So, which is it for you: whales or your wallet? Do you want to save the world, or do you want financial success? Anna Laycock from...
Good Energy, the UK’s only 100% renewable electricity supplier, has released its preliminary results for 2012 – a year in which the firm experienced encouraging growth...
Energy firm Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) has been fined £10.5m by energy regulator Ofgem for deceiving its customers about the true costs of its services....
Consumer water bills will rise by 3.5% in April – or £13 a year on average – to help fund £25 billion worth of network improvements...