Environmental Policy

Trees, Two Degress and the Failure of Climate Policies

Chris Shaw | Posted 11.06.2013 | UK Universities & Education
Chris Shaw

Any last vestiges of faith in the ability of policy makers to implement credible emission reduction strategies must surely have gone up in flames last...

Understanding Environmental Behaviour in the 'Black Box' of the Household

Dr Stewart Barr | Posted 23.05.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Dr Stewart Barr

With all the investment in behaviour change campaigns and infrastructure, why is there still material that can be recycled going into the bin in our homes? Only half of all plastic bottles are currently sent for recycling, revealing a significant gap between the strong environmental values people profess and their behaviour.

Was Unpaid Jubilee Work Experience Good for the Soul?

Tiernan Douieb | Posted 07.08.2012 | UK Politics
Tiernan Douieb

How have we become a nation that presumes doing 'work experience' alongside the river Thames in the pouring rain for an event that happens once in a blue blooded moon will in any way lead to a valuable career?

Economic Growth - Wrong Answer

Pippa Bartolotti | Posted 05.08.2012 | UK Politics
Pippa Bartolotti

Poised on the brink of economic meltdown as we are, governments all over the world are baying frantically for growth. But growth is not the answer to our problems.

Is The Government Living Up To Its Green Promises?

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 18.05.2012 | UK Politics

Just 2% of people think the coalition is living up to Prime Minister David Cameron's promise to be the "greenest government ever", a poll revealed tod...

No Rural Retreat

Dylan Sharpe | Posted 14.09.2011 | UK Politics
Dylan Sharpe

Despite early promise and eye-catching statements like promising to be "the Greenest government ever" the Coalition has so far struggled to turnaround the anti-rural policies of previous administrations.