Barack Obama’s June speech on climate change has been credited with helping boost investment in clean technology in the second three months of 2013. According to market...
Local authorities have been challenged to make banking and investments work harder for their communities. In a new report, campaign group Move Your Money describes how...
It is almost five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, but only now are we seeing the first stirrings of something that was almost universally...
The UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon has identified some of the biggest challenges faced by the world as the eradication of extreme poverty and promoting sustainable consumption....
Abundance Generation has launched the financing stage for its fourth renewable energy project. Investors are able to pledge as little as £5 to fund the installation...
Energy Bond PLC is issuing a £7.5m bilateral loan agreement (Energybonds) to retail investors at an interest rate of 7.5%. The loan is intended to finance...
Many things contributed to the end of the South African apartheid – the racial segregation system that, after decades of pressure, was eventually abandoned. But one...
We all knew it was coming, but as with any death, it’s tough to take. Google Reader, the internet giant’s bespoke web feed aggregator, will cease...
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...
Amid a whole host of environmental, social and economic pressures, Tim Jackson, author of the brilliant Prosperity Without Growth: economics for a finite planet, spoke at...
Pollution, waste, resource scarcity and price volatility, deforestation, polar ice loss, biodiversity loss, abuse of humans, corporate malpractice, loss of the wilds, the collapse in bee...
On Wednesday, George Osborne announced £100 billion of investment in infrastructure. A day later, his deputy Danny Alexander detailed the plans, calling them “the most comprehensive,...
Private investor Darren Hall explains his motivations for investing in the Converging World, a charity that aims to enable and fund community activity in sustainable resources. A...
It was 56 years ago today that a 25-year Medical Research Council study confirmed that smoking caused cancer. Tobacco firms rejected the assertion as a ‘matter...
People without a financial adviser struggle to save effectively for the long-term, according to the industry, with a survey revealing eight out of 10 non-advised individuals...