5 things you need to know about becoming “fossil free” with your money

5 things you need to know about becoming “fossil free” with your money

If you’re wondering whether your stock market investments are damaging the Earth, maybe the time has come to understand why many organisations are divesting from this sector and why “fossil free” indexes exist. The latest example comes from Australia in the form of the Fossil Free Index created by Thomson Reuters and Future Super –

Hawaii. From tropical haven to green paradise

Hawaii. From tropical haven to green paradise

Enough with coal, oil and natural gas. From now on Hawaii will only build plants that generate electricity using renewable sources and will cut all funding for fossil fuels. The aim: to be powered by 100% renewables by 2045. The announcement was made by state governor David Ige, electrical engineer, at the Asia Pacific Resilience

Volkswagen has cheated us all: the environmental damage the fraud has caused

Volkswagen has cheated us all: the environmental damage the fraud has caused

“If Volkswagen cheated in America, couldn’t it do so somewhere else?” wondered Luca Poma in his article published a couple of days ago on the scandal of the German car manufacturer. Just a few hours later, the confirmation. The scandal on VW cheating emissions tests involves 11 million cars marketed all over the world since

Threats are never isolated. Peabody Energy exploited Ebola to boost coal sales

Threats are never isolated. Peabody Energy exploited Ebola to boost coal sales

Using the Ebola epidemic to promote coal is pretty far fetched. And yet, that’s exactly that Peabody Energy did. During a conference the American coal company, which has mining interests around the world, linked coal to Ebola in order to promote its own product as a response to Africa’s devastating health crisis. The PR exercise

Volkswagen cheated on US emission rules with 482,000 diesel cars

Volkswagen cheated on US emission rules with 482,000 diesel cars

Volkswagen, one of the world’s largest car manufacturers, has falsified the emissions data of diesel cars sold in the United States, in order to elude tests of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. The accusation, confirmed by Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn, has been made by the EPA in reference to vehicles sold in the US between