November 5 is Blue & Green Tomorrow’s third birthday. Our first editor, David Tebbutt, reflects on two publications, separated by four decades, that offer contrasting takes...
Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell has announced it is “putting the building blocks in place” to restart drilling for oil in the Arctic in 2014, after being...
Financial services giant Morgan Stanley has launched a new institute that it hopes will help mobilise private capital towards sustainable investment, and direct $1 billion to...
I recently attended a conference where Janine Benyus, author of the inspiring book Biomimicry said, “We are all part of nature.” I agree, and if we...
The sustainable investment industry has come a long way from its purely ethical roots. No longer is it simply about screening out the bad guys, as...
Many readers will be familiar with Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This widely taught model suggests that humans achieve motivation in a series of stages, starting at...
When it comes to climate change and environmental protection, the Conservative party is often seen as having a big green dividing line down its middle, with...
Sustainability is probably the most important global issue that is least talked about. In essence it’s the need to follow the care instructions for the planet...
“The human race will be the cancer of the planet.” Julian Huxley, attributed
“What gets measured gets managed”, is an often-quoted phrase in business. In other words, putting a certain activity under the microscope can help you to make...
The answer to the headline of this piece is, at the moment, no. But it’s the wrong question. The current investment risk is systemic. Sustainability means...
Yann Arthus-Bertand’s Home takes viewers on a journey above 50 countries in order to provide a new way of looking at the world and the impact...
EF Schumacher’s controversial study, Small Is Beautiful, was first published in 1973 but remains as relevant and thought-provoking today as it was in the 70s. Over...
In Gaia, James Lovelock puts forward his idea that life on Earth functions as a single organism and is self-regulating. In the 30 years since his hypothesis...
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the Earth. Henry David Thoreau, 1861