Category Archives: Resources
We can’t make poverty history without environmental resilience
This post is by Christine Allen, director of policy and public affairs at Christian Aid. At Christian Aid we strongly believe that, unless development is also environmentally resilient, we can’t end poverty. The UN High-level panel on the post-2015 development … Continue reading
What can green innovators learn from ‘frugal’ innovation in India?
This post is by Ian Thornton, deputy director at the UK Collaborative on Development Sciences. He is former research associate at Nesta, where he researched and wrote Our frugal future: lessons from India’s innovation system with Kirsten Bound. India is developing … Continue reading
Why new landfill bans would keep £2.5bn in the economy
Our economy has been built on a wasteful pattern: we make short-lived products out of valuable raw materials we dig out of the ground, and then stick them (and the resources that made them) back in the ground as landfill. This no … Continue reading
Chatham House on resource futures: right diagnosis but uncertain prognosis
Dustin Benton is a senior policy adviser at Green Alliance, leading the Resource Stewardship theme. Last week, Chatham House added to the drumbeat of concern about resources, declaring that ‘the spectre of resource insecurity has come back with a vengeance.’ … Continue reading
Greening the economy is not a “nice to have”
Conservative MP Laura Sandys argues that low carbon growth is the only game in town. This post was first published on BusinessGreen. There are few terms in today’s industrial dictionary that are so loose, so ill-defined, as the term “The Green … Continue reading
Why we need a ban on sending wood to landfill
This post is by Dustin Benton, who leads Green Alliance’s Resource Stewardship theme. The UK has made real progress in reducing landfill in certain sectors, including packaging, consumer goods, and hospitality, over the past two years. Indeed, the European Commission recently found that the UK … Continue reading
Don’t be fooled by the rain – the UK needs water metering
This is a guest post by Nicci Russell, Policy Director at Waterwise After the wettest ever June, the average total rainfall for July had already fallen by the middle of last month. And the drought earlier this year was dubbed the wettest … Continue reading
What’s the difference between a circular and a linear economy? 1 mm
This post is by Dustin Benton, who leads Green Alliance’s Resource Stewardship theme. Our economy has a basic structure: we dig things out of the ground, turn them into products that last from minutes to a few years at most, … Continue reading
Resource security through a circular economy
This post is by Julie Hill, Green Alliance associate and chair of the Circular Economy Task Force launched by Green Alliance. Today Green Alliance launches the Circular Economy Task Force. For me, this represents unimaginable progress from when I first … Continue reading
Why ecodesign makes economic sense
This post is by Tom Turnbull, Green Alliance policy adviser, who has been focusing on ecodesign and our work with the European Coolproducts campaign. I’ve just returned from Brussels, where amongst the string of events that make up EU Sustainable … Continue reading
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