Simon Birch gets personal with some topical issues.
A class apart
What’s the impact of the UK’s notorious class system on the environment movement?
Alan Sugar - the ethical Apprentice
The UK’s best known businessman still has a lot to learn about the business of ethics.
An Environment For All
Why should it matter if the new FOE boss is another white bloke?
Buy-to-let ethics?
What are the real costs of the recent trend for buy-to-let investments?
Can pop save the planet?
Does a pop concert have the potential to stop climate change?
Climate meltdown
With the battle against climate change looking increasingly hopeless, especially in the face of the booming economies of China and India, why should we bother trying to stop the inevitable?
Ethical Trading Initiative - a toothless talking shop?
It was launched to stamp out sweatshops but has the Ethical Trading Initiative made any difference?
Carbon Counting
Is carbon labelling a good thing, and will it help in the battle against climate change?
Children - is it ok to have them?
How far are you prepared to go to do your bit for the planet? By having one child you’re automatically doubling your environmental impact.
Flying - cleared for take-off?
Should we challenge the accepted environmental orthodoxy that all flying is bad?
Green Award Greenwash
Is there more to environmental awards than an exercise in greenwash?
Why does the media focus on reporting bad news from Africa and what impact does it have? asks Simon Birch
Is green always good
If we simply swap our old brands for their ethical alternative and go for Traidcraft rather than Tesco, is this the end of this story, problem solved for a whole range of environmental issues?
Marks & Spenser go green
What should the ethically aware shopper make of M&S’s groundbreaking environmental initiative?
A Redd Herring?
Will the UN’s latest initiative to save rainforests really work? Simon Birch looks to environmental groups for an answer
Sleeping with the enemy?
With growing numbers of companies wanting to get a slice of the ever increasing ethical market, how does the environmental movement avoid being ripped off?
