For some refreshing perspectives on climate change check out this conference on the 7th March at the University of Western England...

Here's a nice looking business centre. And here's some free advice on how they could encourage greener travel, improve the well-being of clients and staff, and be more welcoming to visitors. And it would only take five minutes.

Remove the sign. Assuming the bolts aren't rusty should only take a few minutes.

There aren't many opportunities for a 6:1 return on your money at the moment, but East Ayrshire's school meals programme is one of them. East Ayrshire Council's healthy, unprocessed, local and organic school meals have won many awards, and now our study demonstrates the benefits in financial terms.

As the year ends, people are making resolutions - and trying to be positive about the future.

Sustainability 2.0 seems to be one of those attempts.  The idea is that Sustainability 1.0 is all about limits and not doing things. It is generally depressing and bad.  Sustainability 2.0 is positive and optimistic - and of course harnesses the power of business for sustainability.  No doubt Sustainability 3.0 will be pure unadulterated bliss, requiring no effort whatever.

Recession is upon us and interest rates are high. The governments and central banks of the world want to lower interest rates to boost borrowing and the economy.

If, as happened to VW shares recently, prices rise and fall so dramatically - perhaps by 25% in a few minutes as seems to be common place, how can the market be pricing stocks correctly?

After the launch of the Natural Change Project on the 1st October, we were delighted to hear from WWF-Scotland that the target for web site visits had been exceeded eight times over in the first month alone!

Check out the web site for yourself... and get involved by offering blog comments:

www.naturalchange.org.uk

"You can't be the cartoonist?" people sometimes ask when I introduce myself.

"No, he was my grandfather," I reply.

"Did you inherit his talent?" I usually explain that I can hardly read my own handwriting, let alone draw. But I've always wondered if I inherited something of an attitude of mind...

The best thing by far I've read about the financial crisis comes from Iceland:

"I think," said Asbjorn Jonsson, a third-generation fisherman, "that people have learned that money is not made in banks. It is made by real people working hard at real jobs.

Which comes first: economy or environment? was a question someone raised in a discussion group at the Scottish Sustainable Development Forum conference.

And it's a fair enough question when we're told the economy is in freefall. Here's a simple way to tell which - ultimately - must come first as we work towards enduring solutions:

If we lose the economy, do we have an ecosystem?

If we lose the ecosystem, do we have an economy?