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Will putting a price on nature put environmentalists out of a job?
Dan Box
5th July, 2010
The launch of the massive economic ecosystem assessment, TEEB, will help force the natural world onto the corporate balance sheet. It's a step forward. But how will protesters react to the ground shifting under their feet? more...
Bond markets, not politicians, control our future
Dan Box
29th April, 2010
We've lost control of our spending and debt to international bond markets and whoever wins the election won't be able to take it back more...
Snapshot: what the budget does for the green economy
Ecologist
24th March, 2010
In the last budget before the general election, Alistair Darling announced a series of measures that could have a positive environmental impact, including a £2 billion green investment bank more...
How credit unions can succeed where banks fail
Dorienne Robinson
2nd February, 2010
If you're looking for small, short-term loans for a green project, it's worth borrowing from a credit union instead of a bank more...
Farmers' markets, coops and repair shops will seed the new economy
Tim Jackson
26th January, 2010
It's called the 'Cinderella economy'. You know it as the local, sustainable businesses that don't make the GDP figures soar, but do provide jobs and glue communities together... more...
Money men ignoring climate change
Ecologist
7th January, 2010
Survey finds global financial decision makers ignoring climate risks and opportunities more...
Jim Hansen in the same bed as Exxon and Shell?
Dan Box
7th December, 2009
It's an unlikely alliance, but when one of the world's leading climate scientists and the world's biggest fossil fuel companies declare a common interest, it should draw attention more...
Teach the banks a lesson: pull your money out
Tom Hodgkinson
3rd December, 2009
Instead of moaning about the injustice of the financial sector, there's a very simple way we could make our voices heard, says Tom Hodgkinson more...
We should all know how RBS spends our money
Dan Box
26th October, 2009
Officials can sternly lecture the City on its excesses as much as they like: when it comes to actually regulating it, politicians just don't care. And don't want us to know... more...
Catastrophe bonds: a financial symptom of climate change?
Dan Box
1st September, 2009
You can't trust banks; can you trust insurers? Dan Box looks at the rise and rise of 'catastrophe bonds' - the new financial product with a very big downside more...
Bailed-out banks should fund the Green New Deal
Dan Box
17th August, 2009
They emptied the public purse to fund their continuing largesse. Now it's time for the banks to pay us back. At phenomenally good rates... more...
Turkish dam project scrapped, but pipeline gets go-ahead
Ecologist
13th July, 2009
Turkey's plans for a hydroelectric dam on the Tigris have been scrapped as Europe withdraws funds for a failure to meet environmental obligations, while plans for the trans-Europe Nabucco gas pipeline are ratified more...
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Ecologist guide to ethical finance
Ecologist
14th October, 2009
Banks, building societies, ethical funds, pensions or people - where should the discerning environmentalist put their money? more...
The Visionaries
Ecologist
20th March, 2009
Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.more...
Visionaries: Ann Pettifor
Ecologist
1st April 2009
Ann Pettifor has changed the world once; now she wants to do it again.more...
Struggling for Éire
Molly Scott Cato
11th May, 2009
If it is not to be choked by debt and taxes, Ireland must return to the self-sufficient, localised vision of one of its founding fathers more...
Iceland's economic meltdown: a lesson from the frontline of global finance
Molly Scott Cato
4th March, 2009
The world has watched the vertiginous collapse of the Icelandic economy in recent months with a mixture of fascination and horror. more...
Economy distorted by multimillion pound bonuses
Nick Robins
28th January, 2009
Everyone loves a good bonus. None more so than the thousands of financiers across the globe who enjoyed ‘stonking’ payments in 2006. more...
An end to monopoly money
Molly Scott Cato and Martin Large
1st November, 2008
Creating cash should not be the responsibility of the private banking system, but of the common wealth. Let’s get mutual, urge Molly Scott Cato and Martin Large more...
Don't believe the hype
Stephen Hale
1st October, 2008
The current economic downturn is hard, but it’s also filled with opportunities to remake the world in a more sustainable way, says Stephen Halemore...
A steady-state economy
Herman Daly
1st April, 2008
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends. more...
The Ecologist's 'Real Green Budget'
Mark Anslow
23rd March, 2007
Environmentalists had waited with baited breath for the Chancellor's 2007 Budget. Gordon Brown had intimated that it would be the 'greenest ever'. In fact, it was a resounding disappointment. more...
Milton Friedman: Architect of Neoliberalism RIP
Paul Kingsnorth
1st December, 2006
Death is rarely something to be celebrated, but I can’t say I shed a tear last week when I heard that Milton Friedman, the father of neoliberal economics, had gone to the great free market in the sky. more...
Backing the Bad Guys
Noreena Hertz
1st December, 2004
As the world’s poorest countries sink further and further into debt, Western corporations grow fat from government-backed projects that fuel conflicts, harm the environment and have built-in kickbacks.more...
Health NHS exposed
Solomon Hughes
1st April, 2004
In 1993 Tory MP David Willetts wrote a pamphlet called The Opportunities for Private Funding in the NHS, which proposed using Private Finance Initiatives (PFIs) and other commercial mechanisms to provide health services in the UK. Conservative ministers thought Willetts’s proposals too radical. They were consigned to the shelf until 1997, when the New Labour Government put them into action. more...Members
