From New York to Rio de Janeiro, noise is the number one complaint to the city authorities. It dwarfs daily concerns about street crime, air pollution or waste disposal. [More]

Announcing the launch of the Woodland Carbon Code [More]

Join the discussion and leave a comment over at the Sustainable Futures blog! The latest post is on Sajed Kamal's The Renewable Revolution, a book recently published by Earthscan, tackling nothing less than the question of how we can fight climate change, prevent energy wars, revitalize the economy and transition to a sustainable future. Highly relevant issues that already cause sleepless nights to some and are likely to produce much more headache in the future. Why? Because the age of unlimited, exploitative and imbalanced industrial growth at any cost is over. [More]

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The emerging competitiveness angle means that ‘green’ is no longer an operational issue, but a strategic boardroom priority. If a company doesn’t take it seriously, or looks on it as a simple cost cutting exercise, they will get left behind. It’s as simple as th [More]

Once upon a time there was a generation of young people, full of aspiration and hope that their lives would be better than the ones their parents and grandparents have had. Growing older, this generation then went into business, politics, sports and culture – just like all the others before. Houses grew larger, cars bigger, the regular overseas vacation became the most normal thing to do. Happy lives of plenty and peace, forever and ever. Unfortunately, for most young people today, such a life is about to become a tale of the past. Be it Los Indignados in Spain or Generation Zero in Aotearoa New Zealand: it’s the young generation that realizes how much there is to lose from bad decisions today, but also how much there is to gain from taking action to protect their future. [More]