How green is Obama?

Source: Green Futures (November 27th)

American Eye

He’s been touted as America’s great green hope, but Polly Ghazi asks: What we can really expect an Obama presidency to deliver?

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Gardening for food security

Claire Wyatt, December 4th, Forum Blog.

files/vegetable_plot_polytunnel.jpg Last week, I attended a really interesting event hosted by Garden Organic.  The purpose was to explore what steps need to be taken to encourage more home grown food production as part of our food security options for the future. During World War II, approximately half of the nation’s ...

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Jonathon Porritt and Peter Madden take up new advisory positions

Fiona King, December 3rd, Forum Blog.

files/PM_preferred1_web.jpg Both Jonathon Porritt and Peter Madden will be bringing in 2009 with new advisory positions on external boards. Jonathon Porritt joins construction company Willmott Dixon, a long-standing partner of Forum for the Future, as non-executive director in January. He will provide strategic advice on sustainability issues, working with Head of Sustainability ...

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Why sustainability is good for competitiveness

David Bent, December 1st, Forum Blog.

Have you ever been told that this sustainability stuff is all very well but it undermines UK competitiveness? That companies will go bust, jobs will be lost and that the Chinese will do it any way all because of you pesky, naïve lefty environmentalists? Ever wanted to answer back? A ...

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Green at last? If only...

Jonathon Porritt, November 28th, Forum Blog.

files/al-darling.jpg All sorts of things about the Pre-Budget Report are to be wholeheartedly welcomed – not least the Labour Party’s re-discovery of the moral case for redistribution – or ‘fairness’, as they choose to describe it. Hang on in there a little bit longer, and they’ll soon re-discover the concept of ...

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Sustainable Cities Index 2008 - update

Peter Madden, November 25th, Forum Blog.

files/sus cities cover image_small_4.JPG Today we republish the rankings in our second annual Sustainable Cities Index. I'd like to take this opportunity to apologise on behalf of Forum for the Future for the clerical error which distorted our original tables. We take the index very seriously. We have chosen our ...

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Translating risk into action

Alice Chapple, November 25th, Forum Blog.

files/ClimateWise_small_1.JPG Few now question the fact of climate change.  Yet in business and as individuals we are all struggling to find practical ways to translate that knowledge into action. The UK insurance industry’s world-leading ClimateWise initiative is an attempt to do just that. Member companies commit to take climate change into account ...

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