It’s National Ethical Investment Week (NEIW) – a great initiative to raise awareness about green and ethical investment among the financial community and public at large....
Most of us enjoy having money. It is an astonishing tool. More money can equal more food, more fun, and much more status and power. We...
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...
Since the turn of the 20th century, ‘consuming’ has gradually become more and more central to our way of life. Consuming is no longer just a...
It has been the vogue in the financial press to focus on the concept that investing can be neatly divided between the ethical and the unethical....
“The best/worst thing about great design is that you shouldn’t notice it; it should just make your decisions easier and your life run smoother.” So says...
To coincide with National Ethical Investment Week, Hubert Aarts of Impax Asset Management explains how investing ethically across rapidly growing global environmental markets appeals to a...
With ethical funds recently showing greater gains over their conventional peers over the last 12 months, high net-worth investors putting an increasing portion of their wealth...
An awful lot of journalism during National Ethical Investment Week will get bogged down in a tired debate about performance and gleefully pointing out ‘unethical’ companies...
The Pig Idea is a new initiative to feed pigs with food wasted by supermarkets and kitchens – a practice banned by the European Union following the...
What is next for the banking sector? How can we spell an end to the irresponsible and unsustainable activity that goes on? One man charged with...
The order of these words matters. Invest, spend, vote. We get to vote in a general election once every five years. We tend to spend only...
The Daily Mail and the leader of the Labour Party have got into a spectacular argument over an article that attacked Ed Miliband’s deceased father, describing him as “the...
Reading the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) feels rather as Bill Murray’s character Phil Connors must have felt in the 1993...
Sustainability thought leader Will Day told a fascinating – and revealing – anecdote during his keynote speech at Blue & Green Tomorrow’s Sustainable Investment Bootcamp last...