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Ethical funds: over 30 years, have the green shoots yet taken root?

20 Oct 2014: Despite 100 funds and more choice than ever, ethical funds are still a tiny part of the market. We look at what’s on offer
Ecotricity windfarm project hopes to power more than 50,000 homes a year

14 Oct 2014: Eco energy supplier teams up with construction company Skanska in £500m onshore operation named Skylark
Triodos Renewables sees the green shoots of a long-term 10% return

11 Oct 2014: Investing in renewable energy is attractive for those wanting their money to do good while earning a decent rate
The unromantic truth: supermarkets aren’t dying, and that’s a good thing

10 Oct 2014: Jay Rayner: Tesco et al are our only hope if we are to feed the nation sustainably. So we need a reckoning, not a revolution
For too long, cities have paid little notice to global issues. Climate change must change their mindset

10 Oct 2014: Mature cities can adapt and new cities can design themselves to be climate resilient from the start. Alongside unavoidable expenditure come potentially lucrative benefits for innovative businesses providing solutions – and the prize is a big one
Where will Ed Miliband's one million green jobs come from?

Guardian Professional, 8 Oct 2014: The UK is a global leader in early-stage climate innovation, but this needs to be turned into commercially-viable, job-creating business
Green deal finance firm warns about funding gap

5 Oct 2014: Company providing loans in flagship energy efficiency scheme says state-owned bank has closed off funding channel
Why the energy has gone out of Tory green policy

1 Oct 2014: Damian Carrington: Conserative party conference suggests David Cameron and his ministers don’t have a single new thought on the environment
George Osborne: Burying the good news of the green economy

29 Sep 2014: As the government scraps its green economy statistics, the chancellor lauds hi-tech industries of the future but then puts fracking first
Labour’s conference message offers little hope to the left

24 Sep 2014: Letters: Ian Martin’s ‘spineless opposition’ has a good deal more to offer to my constituents in a hard-pressed ward in Newcastle’s West End than he allows
Adapting to climate change can’t be left to the wild west of the markets

10 Sep 2014: Razmig Keucheyan: Extreme weather events are expensive, and will put further strain on debt-laden states. But private finance is not the answer
Debunking Chris Huhne’s paean to growth

28 Aug 2014: Letters: Chris Huhne fails to distinguish between relatively and absolutely decoupling energy use and economic growth
Green energy co-ops blocked by government regulator

15 Aug 2014: Financial Conduct Authority accused of undermining official policy by refusing new applications for community projects
UK renewable energy subsidies capped at £200m a year

24 Jul 2014: Solar industry says contracts for difference budget represents a large reduction in the support they receive
Caofeidian, the Chinese eco-city that became a ghost town - in pictures

23 Jul 2014: “As precious as gold...” This was how then-president Hu Jintao described Caofeidian during his visit in 2006. It was promised to be ‘the world’s first fully realised eco-city’ – yet 10 years and almost $100bn later, only a few thousand inhabitants have moved to this land reclaimed from the sea