The average victim of the economic crisis will find it difficult to train up for a job in renewable energy President Obama’s plan to turn around the US economy includes $150bn of investment in green energy over the next 10 years, driving America towards energy independence whilst creating five million ‘green collar’ jobs. Nobody can [...]

Take a ‘Staycation’ – help the economy, save money and reduce CO2. Flying is one of the biggest contributors to the UK’s CO2 emissions; somewhere around 6% of the UK’s CO2 came from air travel in 2008 and this is predicted to rise to 10-16% if we don’t do anything to slow it down. As [...]

The prospects for the emergence of a genuinely sustainable global economy have been given fresh impetus with the election of Barack Obama, extending beyond the well intentioned rhetoric characteristic of new administrations. I think we can be optimistic for several reasons. Firstly, it signals a radical departure from the previous administration’s policy of denial, apathy [...]

In 1929 the start of the Great Depression was hitting the USA. President Roosevelt proposed the ‘New Deal’, a giant monetary injection, to stimulate markets and reduce poverty. Part of the New Deal was the Work Projects Administration, whose task it was to create millions of new jobs for the unemployed across the USA.  Overnight, [...]