Archive for November 2009

  • Don’t mention the C word…

    added on November 18, 2009 by Liza Lort-Phillips

    I went to an event the other evening, entitled ‘Many Heavens, One Earth: Faiths, the Environment, and Copenhagen’.  Oops. In light of various pronouncements in the past 24 hours that ‘the Deal is dead, long live the Deal’.. perhaps putting Copenhagen in the same sentence as ‘faith’ and ‘environment’ might have been a tad optimistic! 
    Nonetheless, [...]

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  • It’s official: The ethical consumer movement is recession-proof

    added on November 17, 2009 by Liza Lort-Phillips

    The debate has raged over whether ‘ethical spend’ is taking a hit now that we’re in a recession.  For every statistic that suggests it will (or is), another can be found to suggest the opposite is the case.  Witness headlines in both the Guardian and The Times in the same week last month:  From the [...]

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  • Evidence-based policies or policy-based evidence?

    added on November 4, 2009 by Liza Lort-Phillips

    I was struck by a comment in the editorial in today’s FT about the resignation of the government’s chief drug advisor Professor Nutt. At the heart of the row, the question of government moving from reliance on ‘evidence-based policy’ to one that seeks to do the opposite: find the right evidence it needs to justify [...]

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  • Frying tonight? Climate change and the limits of voluntary action

    added on November 2, 2009 by Peter Truesdale

    The Copenhagen Conference is not just crunch time for efforts to combat destructive climate change. It also questions what are the limits of voluntary corporate responsibility. 
    Three months to go and already my desk groans under reports and analyses about the Copenhagen Conference. If there were a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Desks it [...]

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