The poor pacific island of Vanuatu . . . hit the top of the Happy Planet Index. Photograph: Sylvia Cordaiy Photo Library Ltd/Alamy Perhaps it was when investigators realised that a mortgage had been given to an "M Mouse" that the depth of the banking ...
Many people forget that the basic principles for the Copenhagen negotiations were set long ago at the Earth Summit in 1992. Rich countries were supposed to go first, fastest and furthest, and pay to help others follow in the footsteps. They failed in ...
The scramble for the worlds resources has barely abated with the recession, and our ecological debts are mounting The elephant is still standing, and still dead. Around its feet are hundreds of coins thrown by visitors. Room after room at the Royal ...
It could be the premise for a zeitgeist science-fiction thriller about global warming. Secrets, lies, and breathless chases along corporate corridors. Millions of pounds at stake, and ultimately millions of lives too. The UN suspends an auditor at the ...
Whether it is bankers, doctors or dentists pulling in excessive pay, people are left wanting to spit at their greed. But John Varley, Barclays chief executive, reacted in horror this week to the suggestion of a Radio 4 interviewer that some parameters ...
They're still out there, the deniers, but they become increasingly exotic. And excuses for inaction on global warming become stranger. One I found would have us believe that spending on wind farms was responsible globally for "killing millions" through ...
Ten months have passed since pointing out that we have, at best, 100 left before a new, far more dangerous phase of global warming begins. The "chatter" of concern is getting louder. But at the same time, the political system in Britain has been ...
Faced with worsening projections for global warming and energy security, learning that the wind turbine maker Vestas will be closing its factory on the Isle of Wight is a bit like hearing that pharmaceutical companies are closing down the production of ...
Last week, Auckland car dealer, Andrew Simms, celebrated the addition of Citroen, Alfa Romeo and Fiat to his portfolio with a glamorous, European themed launch event. The European themed cocktail evening, opened by Mayor of Auckland, John Banks, and ...
'A man who falls from a 100-storey building will survive the first 99 storeys unscathed," wrote the economist EJ Mishan in response to critics of his attack on the costs of economic growth. It was the 1960s and then, as now, it was heresy to question ...
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