Posts Tagged: green innovation

If the UK is to meet its climate change targets at least cost, the Government’s stated intention, then the power sector must be largely decarbonised by 2030. The Energy Bill had its Second Reading in Parliament last week. This again put the spotlight on Government support for the renewable sector, given the battle between the […]

The trees are ablaze with colour, mist hangs in the morning air and the nights are getting longer: autumn is here. As the days and nights get colder, now is the time to check whether your home will keep you as warm as it should this winter. At WWF we’re keen on energy saving in the home […]

This week is World Green Building Week, a chance to showcase sustainable buildings in action. We at WWF have been lucky enough to inhabit our own green building, the Living Planet Centre (LPC), since October 2013. But what does our own green home tell us, and why do we need more buildings like it? The WWF […]

At first glance, it might seem challenging to give an old Victorian home an energy make-over. SuperHome owner Ruth Shepherd shows how it can be done. Ruth’s Story In 2013 Ruth Shepherd decided to make some changes to her Manchester home. After a visit to SuperHome owner Eric Fewster’s house, Ruth decided to combine an […]

Having been excited about the prospect of attending my first World Water Week in Stockholm for months, it didn’t disappoint! With the World Economic Forum’s 2015 Global Risk Report ranking ‘water crises’ as the number one risk to global sustainability, it was refreshing to hear leaders in the field be open about the challenges they […]

Refurbishing an older home can increase your comfort, cut your bills and save carbon. It can be empowering too; transforming your home can reduce your impact on the planet in a meaningful way. Dora and Zsolt Varszegi overhauled their 1920’s semi and reduced their carbon emissions by 80%. Theirs is one of 60 ‘SuperHomes’, older […]

The election of the first Conservative majority administration for a generation opened a new chapter for UK environmental policy. Would David Cameron, who once asked Britain to ‘Vote Blue, Go Green’, provide strong leadership on green issues, or would his Government retreat to a depressing grey zone, with green priorities consigned to the distant margins? […]

So the starting-gun has finally been fired. The shadow-boxing has been going on for weeks, if not months, but, with the dissolution of Parliament, we are now in the final short campaign. This is the period when candidates are hunkered down in their constituencies, pushing and contending for every vote, while party leaders criss-cross the […]

Naresh Ramchandani is the co-founder of environmental non-profit Do The Green Thing, a partner at design firm Pentagram and a practitioner of what he calls “communications with a conscience.” Together with WWF, Do The Green Thing commissioned designers and artists to create a collection of everyday objects that inspire people to live more sustainably for […]

It feels, at last, as though we are into the final straight of what has seemed like a very long General Election campaign.  The horses – perhaps a broader field than we might have expected at the beginning of this Parliament – are approaching the finishing line, though only the rashest of pundits would risk […]