Economics & Innovation
Customers pledge to change banks
30 Jan 2012
A new campaign will encourage customers to move their money in protest against unethical banks
Website helps campaign groups fund advertising
UK / Innovation, Peace & Democracy
20 Jan 2012
A new crowd-funding scheme is helping people and organisations that are working for good causes, to advertise to the public
UK / Innovation
20 Jan 2012
A renewable outdoor cinema in London’s East End has shown the benefits of recycling in the run up to the Olympics
Does making poverty history require making wealth history too?
Global / New Economics, Positive Perspective
04 Jan 2012
We need to redefine wealth if we are to find a sustainable path to global prosperity, says Jeremy Williams
04 Jan 2012
The eighth Ethical Fashion Show and accompanying trade fair attracted some 100 exhibitors to Paris in September 2011
Time for Plan B say economists
04 Jan 2012
A ‘Plan B’ to rival the government’s ‘Plan A’ for the economy has been published by left-of-centre pressure group Compass
UK / New Economics, Transition News
20 Dec 2011
Brixton residents can now use electronic Brixton pounds to pay for goods from participating businesses in the local area
UK / Innovation
20 Dec 2011
cyclingcommuter.co.uk is offering advice and information to help people to cycle to work
19 Dec 2011
Schumacher College is taking a unique approach to educating the leaders of a prosperous future
12 Dec 2011
Speakers at Bristol conference see window of opportunity for a more holistic economic system
09 Dec 2011
Peter Blom, CEO and chairman of Triodos Bank, says that banks need to have real values and by mimicking natural systems they can operate more effectively
06 Dec 2011
Advances in our knowledge and understanding of animal sentience are compelling us to reconsider our prejudices toward animals
UK / New Economics, Positive Money
02 Dec 2011
A simple reform to the way money is created would end the debt crisis, reduce poverty and reinvigorate the economy, say campaigners
Draft UN Declaration on Planetary Boundaries published
Global / Science, Sustainable Development
01 Dec 2011
A group of development and sustainability experts, scientists and lawyers have developed a draft UN Declaration on Planetary Boundaries
10 Oct 2011
A once disused space in Manchester city centre is now blossoming with the green stems and bright blue flowers of a plant that could reinvigorate a local, sustainable textile industry
UK / Community, Food, Innovation
04 Oct 2011
Melanie Strickland discovers how volunteers are turning 'waste' food from local shops into healthy, cheap meals each Sunday at The People’s Kitchen
Support the new economy, says investment company
03 Oct 2011
A leading ethical investment company is urging its clients to support companies that are creating sustainability and efficiency in their industries.