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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,…

New Government; new Ministers in DECC; new opportunities. Which makes it a brilliant time for Ashden to be promoting all its UK Award winners, not just celebrating their success, but inviting those new Ministers in DECC to embrace the world of talent here in the UK to help deliver on our ambitions…

This is not the first time I’ve blogged about the Pope, and I’m nervous about bigging him up too much given my views on family planning and women’s rights. But as a growing and already hugely inspirational presence in our environmental world, there’s so much to admire about what this man is saying…

The air is still thick with the poignant wisps of personal political failure – after one of the most extraordinary General Elections of the modern era. Failure of that kind is all the more cruel when it is entirely unexpected, and although many Lib Dem MPs knew that there was going to be some kind…