In September 2011, Emily Mackay saw a gap in the market for a website that allows people to put money into a renewable energy project. Twelve...
Arctic summer ice cover reaches its lowest extent since records began. Antarctic land ice is being lost and those losses are accelerating. Forest cover has fallen...
Labour leader Ed Miliband has threatened to break up big banks and cap pension charges at his party’s annual conference, but it’s his stance on imposing...
Like many specialist ethical financial advisers, Scott Murray’s roots began in mainstream investment. He then realised he needed a change. Now managing director of Virtuo Wealth...
A recent report outlined that the financial performance of ethical and mainstream investment funds barely differed. Here, Julian Parrott, partner at independent financial advisers Ethical Futures, describes...
The WWF has launched a comprehensive guide that seeks to aid responsible investment in 10 major commodities sectors. The 2050 Criteria: Guide to Responsible Investment in...
Hilton Worldwide, the global hospitality firm, has recouped $147m (£91m) in cumulative savings through its innovative sustainability programme, LightStay. The hotel chain, which is active in...
£25,000. It seems quite a lot of money. And it is a lot of money, by most people’s standards. Why are we looking for this amount...
FairPensions is to host a training event in London in November, in order to encourage employees and shareholders to campaign for responsible investment within their pension...
A comparison of indexes has shown that sustainable companies financially outshine those that don’t deem resource efficiency as integral to their business strategies. Writing in the...
In our month-long run up to National Ethical Investment Week 2012 (October 14-20), Simon Leadbetter asks, what’s in a name? Ever since the idea behind Blue...
Some of the biggest corporations in Japan have pledged to fund a 300 megawatt (MW) offshore wind development worth up to 120 billion yen (£948m). Toshiba...
To help fund Blue & Green Tomorrow’s next stage of growth, we’ve turned to crowdfunding, an innovative way of sourcing funding. So without further ado, here’s our...
Crowdfunding, or crowd-financing, is a very simple model. Rather than ask a small number of people for a large investment in an enterprise or project, ask...
We’re delighted to unveil our next series of reports. And we’re asking our readers to pledge anything from £10 upwards to help fund the next three,...