Politics And Economics

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

Who greenwashed Earth Day? Well, quite a lot of people actually, who bagged some incredible titles for their companies...

In the run up to the British general election, Pat Thomas says the various party manifestos are starved of sound policies on food security and sustainability

Cities are at a crossroads - 'eco urbanists' want efficiency and artificial ecosystems; conventional designers want to maintain the best bits of our current urban spaces. Can they co-exist?

Banks - love 'em or hate 'em, they're an integral part of nearly every economic system. But just how would they function in a steady-state, earth-linked economy?

How do the Liberal Democrats, Conservatives, Labour and the Green Party measure up on their environmental manifesto pledges? Here's the definitive list...

Everyone was disappointed by Copenhagen, but sometimes it takes a man in a 350.org tie to choke on a nut to remind us just how frustrating COP15 was...

It goes against his better instincts, but Dan Box finds the hardback blue bible being bashed on the Tory battlebus strangely persuasive...

It was a loophole that most of us thought had been sewn up. But new research shows that companies are continuing to cash in on the 'super' greenhouse gas HFC-23

NGO groups targeting marginal seats to pressure candidates into raising the profile of climate change in their election campaigns

Dan launches a highly unscientific experiment to track the financial fortunes of five green companies, and five less-than-green...

Environmental activist Tamsin Omond is running for a Westminster seat on a platform of more collaborative democracy, and resurrecting the idea of the Commons as a shared public good

The dramatic cuts in UK emissions suggested by the Government's preliminary figures are staggering - but we would be wrong to celebrate them

It's an unfashionable idea, but would a return to hiring products and services rather than buying them help us reduce our ecological footprint and turn businesses green?

Report finds Kansas-based Koch Industries has been financing opposition to environmental regulation, clean energy and climate scepticism

As the fiscal dust kicked up by Alistair Darling's 2010 budget begins to settle, experts say they are 'surprised' by how 'un-green' the budget turned out to be

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

UK’s poor air quality is a bigger killer than passive smoking, road traffic accidents and obesity says parliamentary committee

Molly would glady have been tied to the stake with the other Metric Martyrs... but, being that she wasn't, she's keen to point out why weights and measures matter to all

The time may soon be coming when every government will need to think about rationing fossil fuel usage. What's the quickest and most equitable way to do it?

A victory for Teesside residents could have legal implications that help others fighting to preserve green spaces in their communities

Chevron has recently announced a mammoth solar energy project known as Project Brightfield. Good news, eh? But what if they want to use the green power to pump more oil...

Lionel Badal was working on his undergraduate dissertation when he suddenly found himself privy to information that he knew must be made public

The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability