C.S.R? How about T.A.X?
Today some top honchos from Starbucks are up in front of MPs to explain how they organise their tax affairs. The papers have been full...
Why Rio+20 and the G20 should be one meeting
Jun 20, 2012
Two big global jamborees at the same time: Rio+20 trying save the planet and the G20 in Mexico trying to save the global economy. Really...
There’s no such thing as too much renewable energy
Jan 20, 2012
There were stories in the press this month about £1.2m worth of 'constraint payments' made to Scottish wind farms over Christmas to not generate electricity...
Is our obsession with the cuts blinding us to the oil shock?
Nov 30, 2011
The BBC's Evan Davis made a very interesting point when interviewing Labour's Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls this morning on Radio 4. Trying to wrongfoot Balls,...
Standing Still or Going Backwards?
Nov 16, 2011
You read it and you hear it again and again, the same old mantra "we/you/they can't afford to go green in the current economic climate"....
Does Commerce Trump Charity?
Sep 26, 2011
I spent a very pleasant evening on Friday listening to Chris Packham at a Northumberland Wildlife Trust fundraiser (he's vice-president of the Wildlife Trusts). He...
It's the economy, stupid
Sep 29, 2010
Back in the early 1980s, I persuaded my parents to part with the princely sum of £399.00 for a BBC Micro Model B. My initial...
What's a Green Investment Bank?
Mar 24, 2010
With today's UK Governmental budget expected to be all doom and gloom, one green diamond in the murk could be Mr Darling's well trailed Green...
There’s more to it than money…
Sep 7, 2009
Last Friday I was editing the nine interviews I have carried out with CSR/environment executives for book#2, The Green Executive. Reading through all nine in...
Will Gordon give us green green shoots?
Apr 22, 2009
It is budget day today here in the UK and it is probably the trickiest budget to pull off in living memory. The big question...