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Budget: the Chancellor’s money myopia has failed those who seek to build a...
Modern money is supposed to free us as individuals to make choices without compromise. With money as the universally accepted arbiter of value, anyone and anything can be purchased. Freed from moral...
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Green Investment Bank: funding the parts that other banks won’t reach?
With its new and well-respected CEO at the helm – Shaun Kingsbury – the Green Investment Bank (GIB) is up-and-running, announcing its first batch of investments. Wind, energy efficiency and energy...
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Clean energy investment: which way are we heading?
We’re still investing more than twice as much in new fossil fuels than we are in clean energy, according to two major reports released last week. Analysis by Carbon Tracker shows that in 2012, across...
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10 things your installer won’t tell you before you purchase a biomass boiler
I saw a headline this morning in the green trade press, which read: ‘Why every business should be interested in the Renewable Heat Incentive’. A good headline no doubt to get people to click through...
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Wave energy: why we need a fresh approach to harnessing the power of our seas
Western Isles (Picture: Neil Kenhead) Stand on a beach in the Western Isles looking out at the Atlantic and it’s easy to see why for over a century people have dreamed of harnessing the power of our...
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Is your pension investment sustainable?
Do you know where the money in your pension is invested? If you are like the decreasing number of people in the UK who actually have a pension then the likelihood is that you have very little...
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How do we create a renewable energy entity that can compete with the Big Six?
More than three quarters of the British public support renewable energy and our big energy firms – along with banks – have lost the trust of consumers. So why are we still waiting for a renewable...
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Can Ed’s fight with the Big Six support the growth of alternative green energy?
So Ed has decided that the ‘Big Enemy’ is ‘Big Energy’?Perhaps Labour will want to buy the URL for the EDFoff campaign? The doom and gloom headlines in the broadsheets this morning, of lights going out...
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Winning the hearts: can ‘Green Santa’ reclaim Christmas in the name of...
This week, Abundance Generation launched a new campaign to encourage consumers to think again about their Christmas spending. In particular, the campaign aims to highlight the role of global...
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Our top 10 green blogs of 2013
Energy efficiency and heating systems have never grabbed the imagination of the general public, but with energy bills spiralling upwards and heating accounting for half of the UK’s carbon emissions,...
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Fracking: are those who oppose shale drilling “irrational”?
This week, David Cameron announced he was “going all out for shale” and denounced those opposing fracking as “irrational”. He went further offering councils 100 per cent of business rates raised from...
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A tale of two Davos’: why we need to get off our ‘mountain tops’ to save the...
Faisal Islam, Channel 4 economics editor, broadcast live this week from Davos. Specifically, Davos Close, Stoke on Trent. His argument was that sitting talking about inequality and sustainability in...
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Green investment: are we seeing a change in the political weather on climate...
As a nation we tend to characterise any debate in terms of competition rather than consensus. Sitting on the fence is seen generally as being weaker than having a definite and opposing point of view....
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IPCC report: it’s time to stop believing the fossil fuel bluffers and invest...
The InterGovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, out this week, underlines again the massive scientific consensus behind the evidence that the planet’s climate is changing in ways that will...
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Is green investment finally going mainstream?
I don’t normally like to blow our own trumpet, but having launched an advertising campaign for Abundance across tube and rail, using posters and cards inside tube trains, plus multiple national press...
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Myth: investors are more likely to be cynical than ethical
The idea that people are naturally cynical investors, blocking out ethical concerns in the search for profit, is a myth. It is also a myth that investors want their financial institutions to act in...
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Scottish referendum: could more referendums gives us the ‘greenest Government...
Perhaps it is the involvement of Gordon Brown with his hastily drafted ‘timetable’ that makes the panic around the Scottish Referendum feel all rather familiar. He is back from his sabbatical after...
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Money is social: why mainstream finance has got it wrong about ‘us’
“Acting responsibly is not a matter of strengthening our reason but of deepening our feelings for the welfare of others.” Jostein Gaarder, Sophie’s World. Saving money: but there’s more to being good...
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Green investments: will we see a revolution for small investors in 2015?
Behind the headlines and the politics of this month’s Autumn Statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer were a number of ‘good news’ stories in the small print for ethical and sustainable...
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Top 10 green business blogs of 2014
Business sustainability, biomass heating systems, fracking, water sustainability, prosumers, community energy and ethical finance were some of the themes that proved to be our most popular GreenWise...
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