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Green Futures - Article - Anna Simpson - 20/02/2012 - 9:15am - 0 comments

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Forum - Blog - Ulrike Stein - 16/02/2012 - 11:57am - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 16/02/2012 - 9:58am - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 14/02/2012 - 9:15am - 0 comments

Below is the text of a talk I gave at the Rushlight Clean Technologies Show , a gathering place for, guess what, cleantech companies, their advisors and funders. I was asked to talk for 15 minutes on a resource-constrained economy. My key point ...

Forum - Blog - David Bent - 07/02/2012 - 11:15am - 0 comments

Justin Woolford of The Change Co ., on behalf of The Co-operative, introduces the inaugural meeting of a new group of civil society champions who today launch their vision for community energy in the UK with Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for ...

Forum - Blog - Justin Woolford - 03/02/2012 - 5:02pm - 5 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Jonathon Porritt - 26/01/2012 - 3:01pm - 0 comments

Conventional sustainability analysis would not have prevented the credit crunch. Rather, a fundamental change in the way investment works is needed. There is some consensus on the causes of the financial crisis, which has emerged from the ...

Forum - Blog - Alice Chapple - 26/01/2012 - 6:21pm - 0 comments

Dear Davos, The start of a new year, but an old set of problems. Capitalism creaking at the seams, so much so that even national governments are now calling for a ‘more responsible capitalism’ . The world getting warmer, and now wetter, ...

Forum - Blog - Sally Uren - 01/02/2012 - 8:12am - 0 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Martin Wright - 24/01/2012 - 3:49pm - 3 comments

Our membership includes some of Bristol’s biggest businesses, including Capgemini, the Environment Agency, Yeo Valley, and the University of the West of England; we collectively represent nearly a quarter of the region’s workforce (a whopping 80,000), ...

Forum - Blog - Simon Billing - 12/01/2012 - 4:00pm - 1 comment

As we expected – but more than a day late – the 194 countries gathering at the annual climate conference met the three tasks before them at Durban: first, extending the Kyoto Protocol; second, putting some meat on the bones of last year’s Cancun ...

Forum - Blog - Nick Robins - 15/12/2011 - 5:39pm - 1 comment

Our final Network event of the year in London last week tackled two questions that currently challenge many of us: “What exactly do people mean when they talk about ‘a sustainable economy?"  and “How are leading companies ...

Forum - Blog - Nicky Conway - 13/01/2012 - 10:45am - 0 comments

It’s stark, but dividing the world up into the 1% (the self-perpetuating elite currently laying claim to the lion’s share of the world’s wealth) and the 99% (everybody else) is certainly focussing people’s minds. Image courtesy of ...

Forum - Blog - Jonathon Porritt - 05/12/2011 - 5:06pm - 3 comments

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Green Futures - Article - Anonymous - 02/12/2011 - 10:07am - 0 comments

Mischievously, I can’t help imagining what life must be like for that lucky bunch of officials in DCLG charged with the responsibility of processing responses to the Government’s consultation on its draft National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF). ...

Forum - Blog - Jonathon Porritt - 23/11/2011 - 6:32pm - 0 comments

Hard times in Greece mean people are turning to local trading systems in lieu of structured currency. “Part alternative currency, part barter system, part open-air market, the Volos network has grown exponentially in the past year, from 50 to ...

Forum - Blog - Alexa Schubert - 22/11/2011 - 8:15am - 0 comments

If you ask the question, “How many economists does it take to change a light bulb?”, you might get a couple of well-worn answers: (a) None – if the light bulb needed changing, the market would already have done it. (b) Let’s assume that the ...

Forum - Blog - Alice Chapple - 23/11/2011 - 10:15am - 0 comments

Over the last year a new term has been rising up – the sustainable business model. So far it has been used to signal the need to go beyond innovating products or services, and change the fundamentals of how a business makes money. At Forum for the ...

Forum - Blog - David Bent - 05/12/2011 - 3:13pm - 0 comments

When the candles of the V elvet Revolution were lit in 1989 and the peaceful breaching of the Berlin Wall that November signalled the ‘end of communism’, Joschka Fischer, then leader of the German Green Party, said that, for a moment, he thought he ...

Forum - Blog - Sara Parkin - 24/11/2011 - 4:06pm - 2 comments