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Food speculation – how betting on food commodities fuels Mexico’s tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates more...
Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates more...
Mexico's poor suffer as food speculation fuels tortilla crisis
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2011
A surge in financial speculation on maize is causing vastly inflated prices for corn tortillas - a sacred staple in Mexico - and threatening the health and livelihoods of the country's poor. Tom Levitt investigates more...
Barclays, HSBC and RBS linked to 'dirty financing' for fossil fuels
Henry Gass
14th June, 2011
With a bigger spotlight than ever on the role of banks in funding fossil fuel projects we report on unethical and environmentally damaging investments by Barclays, HSBC and Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS)more...
A guide to food speculation: how to argue with a banker
The Ecologist
9th June, 2011
The financial industry has been quick to dismiss its role in pushing up food prices but with the evidence growing daily the Ecologist cuts through the jargon to explain the reality of food speculation more...
Green Investment Bank faces critical test over funding shortfall
Mark Jansen
8th December, 2010
George Osborne pledged £1billion to a green bank that could help Britain reduce carbon emissions. But with low carbon technologies unproven, banks, institutions and energy companies are wary, meaning the venture may not attract the capital to make it viable more...
Goldman Sachs makes $1 billion profit on food price speculation
Tom Levitt
19th July, 2010
'Risky and secretive' gambling on the price of coffee, cocoa and wheat is leading to unstable food prices and exacerbating poverty and malnutrition but creating billions of pounds for the banking sector more...
What would banks do in a green economy?
Molly Scott-Cato
15th April, 2010
Banks - love 'em or hate 'em, they're an integral part of nearly every economic system. But just how would they function in a steady-state, earth-linked economy? more...
10 ideas for sustainable economies and businesses
Ecologist
19th June, 2009
Business and the wider economy can become sustainable parts of the ecosystem - here are some ideas more...
Bailed-out banks should fund the Green New Deal
Dan Box
17th August, 2009
They emptied the public purse to fund their continuing largesse. Now it's time for the banks to pay us back. At phenomenally good rates... more...
Visionaries: Bill Drayton
Ecologist
1st April 2009
Bill Drayton is a slight, eager man who straddles worlds. He knows his stuff, having graduated from Harvard, Oxford and Yale, and has a theory of everything. more...
Struggling for Éire
Molly Scott Cato
11th May, 2009
If it is not to be choked by debt and taxes, Ireland must return to the self-sufficient, localised vision of one of its founding fathers more...
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The money pit
James Bruges
7th August, 2008
Commercial banks should be forbidden from creating ‘virtual’ money, argues James Bruges – our debt-and-interest economies can only lead to collapse or war. more...
Adopt a veg
Alexandra Abrahams
1st October, 2003
Have you ever heard of – let alone tasted – the Rats Tail radish, the Crookneck squash or the Prince of Prussia pea? We report on what’s being done to save Britain’s rich agricultural heritage.more...
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