
In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: a review
- 8th October 2021
A new book by Andrew W Lo and Stephen R Foerster profiling key figures in the development of modern portfolio theory offers a fresh perspective on the active versus passive debate

Investing to Save the Planet: a review of a new guide to the world of green finance
- 8th December 2020
My review of a new book on green investment by Financial Times journalist Alice Ross, written for the Go Invest Green pensions project I’ve been working on this year.

Everyday geoengineering: five climate change innovations from Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future
- 30th November 2020
From the return of the airship to a new age of solar-powered sail Robinson’s latest climate fiction previews the technologies we may – before too much longer – be using in the real world.

Seeking space and light: a review of Kate Soper’s Post-Growth Living
- 2nd November 2020
My review of a new book arguing that the case for moving to a sustainable economic model should use the language of desire rather than sacrifice

Learning Ursula Le Guin’s Pravic: can we think without language?
- 27th October 2020
What comes first, thought or language? Some notes on the philosophy of language with reference to Le Guin’s great science fiction novel The Dispossessed.

The polluters pay — including us: a programme for getting to Net Zero
- 22nd October 2020
Dieter Helm’s latest energy transition manifesto puts a carbon tax at the centre of a programme for navigating the path to a carbon-neutral economy

‘Ecological Leninism’: on waging war against the common cause of corona and the climate crisis
- 27th September 2020
A ferocious polemic by Andreas Malm summons the imagery of Soviet war communism to impress the urgency of acting against the runaway extraction that links corona and climate

People’s Power: taking control of the energy transition
- 11th September 2020
A new book by Ashley Dawson argues that only public control can stop the drift and steer the world towards sustainability