In the first of a two-part interview, Joanna Boehnert, founder of design research studio EcoLabs, speaks to B> about the visual communication of complex environmental problems....
Recommendations on how to transform Britain’s “broken” financial system were suggested on Friday at a conference in London, attended by campaigners, economists and financiers. Speakers at...
Crowdfunding by entrepreneurs and small businesses is becoming an ever-more popular way of securing funds to kickstart exciting and innovative ideas. In April, we brought you...
Campaigners, economists and financiers are gathering in London on Friday for a conference to work out how to transform the finance industry, so that unsustainable investment...
The Australian government has signed a long-term partnership with a coalition of Pacific nations, in order to help the islands in their fight against environmental threats...
“Any other business?” asked Ecology Building Society chair Malcolm Lynch, obligatorily, at the end of the organisation’s annual general meeting (AGM) in Leeds last month. A...
Big Society Capital and Bridges Ventures have launched a £14m Social Impact Bond (SIB) fund, in an effort to help channel finance into the social economy....
Friends of the Earth is running an ethical pension campaign to encourage investors to ask their providers if they invest in land grabbing activities. Emma Websdale...
The majority of fossil fuels are “unburnable” if governments want to stay within their carbon emission limits, according to a comprehensive report by leading economists. Unburnable...
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...
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...
The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do Better is a book that explores poverty and inequality, targeting the huge social and economic gap between...
Best-in-class investment means investing in companies that are frontrunners in meeting environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria in their particular universe, asset class or category. To...
Two philanthropic foundations have created an African impact investment fund, which they hope will go on to drive social and economic change across the continent. The...