Welcome to Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Guide to Fair Trade 2013. Dutch free speech organisation Loesje once questioned whether it would “not be more logical to label unfair products”. But for...
Leading economists are failing to account for ecosystem services such as climate change, water scarcity and pollinator fall off, because of the inherent short-term nature of...
An article we wrote in February, Free markets need to be free, prompted a little Twitter debate when published. There is the honestly and strongly held belief...
The Scottish government has approved an 11-turbine offshore wind farm near Aberdeen, ignoring threats of legal action from US billionaire tycoon Donald Trump. Trump, an ardent...
Declaring half of the British railway network as uneconomic and underused, Dr Richard Beeching’s shortsighted report tolled the death knell for the UK’s leadership in rail...
Tim Dieppe, partner and fund manager at WHEB Asset Management, describes a recent experience that saw him in the audience for a talk from former US...
Environmental campaign group Friends of the Earth has spoken out in support of the government’s chief scientific adviser Sir John Beddington, who yesterday warned of the...
Scientists have argued that world leaders need to introduce six new sustainable development goals (SDGs) to achieve global sustainability. Following UN meetings earlier this month, a study...
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...
In response to Tesco’s statements about the horsemeat scandal, I offered a spoof apology for the supermarket chain: the apology I wished it would have offered....
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...
According to a recent report, the media has created a number of myths about poverty, which has led the most vulnerable being blamed for the UK’s...
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...
On the day that Xi Jinping is officially confirmed as the new president of China, a report reveals that a third of Chinese companies have public...