I divide my time between the Caribbean and Britain. When you have the option of endless summer, the predictable grey of London may seem an…
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Posted by John Rapley in Green Rush | January 20, 2010 2:55PM | No Comments »
According to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, an arm of the UN, the global food crisis is worsening. In 2009, over 1 billion people were…
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Posted by Mike Smith in Hot Money | December 17, 2009 5:48PM | No Comments »
In the city hall square in Copenhagen lies Hopenhagen Live, a futuristic village of glass cabins with green-neon trim, showcasing the greentech innovation that will…
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Posted by Mike Smith in Green Rush | December 16, 2009 3:13PM | 2 Comments »
Environmental and anti-poverty campaigners had hoped that the taxpayer’s majority shareholding in the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) would mean the bank, which has styled…
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Posted by Saoirse Fitzpatrick in Green Rush | December 9, 2009 3:14PM | 2 Comments »
As scientists and now our political leaders insist we ‘go green’ to save the planet, you’d think that coal, the filthiest of all fossil…
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Posted by Kieron Bryan in Green Rush | December 3, 2009 12:47PM | 3 Comments »
Hedge funds, with their wildly fluctuating rates of return and dependence on the short-term health of investments, are pretty much the first place you start…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | September 3, 2009 11:45AM | No Comments »
It seems like only yesterday that Goldman Sachs was announcing its first quarter profits to an aghast world, and since then they’ve been…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 15, 2009 12:08PM | No Comments »
The Allen Stanford saga just gets better and better. The orange cricket fan was good comedy value before the scandal hit, with his…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Hot Money | July 8, 2009 10:59AM | No Comments »
In a heartening bit of stimulus, the US has given Ford, Nissan and Tesla billions in cheap loans to fund the development and manufacture of…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 24, 2009 11:07AM | No Comments »
One of the shortest chapters in Barclays’ history has closed, with the departure of one of its bacon-saving Arab investors yesterday, who collected…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Green Rush | June 2, 2009 11:26AM | No Comments »
Independent News and Media, who publish the Independent, are in another spot of financial bother. Aside from the newspaper that loses £10m a year, along…
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Posted by Ben Beaumont-Thomas in Creative Economy | April 27, 2009 10:51AM | 1 Comment »