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If anyone needed confirmation that this Government’s energy strategy is terminally, irretrievably incoherent, just check out this press release from the Solar Trade Association: 'The Prime Minister of India, Narendra Modi, today will sign £10billion worth of trade deals today including pacts on…

This is the first full week of Community Energy Fortnight, coordinated by Forum for the Future on behalf of the Community Energy Coalition (for which FFF provides the Secretariat), and supported by Cooperative Energy. This is the third such fortnight, and BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT. And that’s…

A packed issue of Resurgence/The Ecologist for September/October, including Philip Pullman on William Blake, Vandana Shiva on the impact of industrial farming practices on Indian farmers - and my review of two recent books, by Tony Juniper and Dieter Helm: http://www.resurgence.org/ 

I’m an NGO-person through and through, but sometimes I do find conventional NGO tactics deeply aggravating. Take the Kodaikanal story, and the current campaign against Unilever. A brilliant bit of in-your-face exposé on Youtube puts Unilever’s history on the Kodaikanal story front and centre of…

Thursday last week was a big day for corporate sustainability reporting, with both Carillion and M&S launching their 2014 Reports. It’s so easy for people to be cynical about sustainability reporting – and far too many people in the sustainability world are just that! ‘Greenwash’, ‘self-serving’,…

It would be great if World Environment Day 2015 focussed not just on ‘the environment out there’, but on us in the environment out there. Walking, working, reflecting, relaxing, dreaming and drawing down on the power of the natural world to make us feel better, feel more engaged. It is, after all,…