As it’s St Andrew’s Day, we round up some of the stuff we’ve written about Scotland in the past year or so, ranging from innovative renewable...
Mark Carney will replace Sir Mervyn King as Bank of England governor in July next year, and in doing so, will take on one of the...
The Environment Agency has issued 83 flood warnings, covering much of the UK, as a man dies near Bath after becoming trapped in his car. The...
The business secretary Vince Cable has today called for a “fundamental change” to the way the investment industry works, in response to Professor John Kay’s independent...
The British Antarctic Survey (BAS) has signed an agreement with the Chilean Antarctic Institute that will see the pair cooperate on science, innovation and climate change....
A new study has predicted a bright future for green building, and said that the UK is at the forefront of a global, sustainable shift in...
One of the most creative minds of the last century, the late Apple chief Steve Jobs, once said that “innovation distinguishes between a leader and a...
The government aims to reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2050. With this in mind, the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) looks to understand the most cost-effective...
The debate surrounding wind power is riddled with money, politics and prejudice. It’s time we began concentrating on the primary reason why we desperately need cleaner...
At an event hosted by Ingenious Clean Energy, renowned environmentalist Jonathon Porritt asks whether we’re at the point at which our circularity with energy gets broken,...
The fifth annual National Ethical Investment Week was, by all accounts, a roaring success. As was France’s version of the event – La Semaine de l’Investissement...
The United Nations was born out of the ruins of the second world war. It replaced the ill-fated League of Nations, which had failed to prevent...
A much needed boost has been given today to the Ethical UK equity income sector by the re-launch of Castlefield’s UK Equity Income fund, renamed the...
The United Kingdom has the seventh largest economy in the world measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP), down from fifth in 1979. Despite our slow overall...
The financial crisis was caused in part by a moral crisis in society, in which governments made promises they could not keep and bankers sold products...