Esther Maughan McLachlan

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Who resurrected the electric car?

General Motors unveils new prototype

Sailing into the sunrise

Silent solar launches in the Lakes.

Sustainable entrepreneur

Sayers’s meat is well hung by name...

Sustainable entrepreneur: Blow your own

Dale Vince with the wind in his sails

Just how hard is it to...halve our water use?

It’s no use going with the flow, as Esther Maughan McLachlan reports.

Snaky ladder for the change agents

New type of association set up to support sustainability practitioners

Just how hard is it to... get more kids walking to school?

Esther Maughan McLachlan seeks out the drivers of change.

Making the money talk

The government means business on public procurement. Esther Maughan McLachlan talks to Sir Neville Simms, the man charged with making it work.

Just how hard is it to…reduce the carbon footprint of a small business?

Esther Maughan McLachlan looks for the answers.

Finding the X Factor

Can’t

The future’s yellow

Sunflowers bring bright new bio-power hope for hydrogen

Five years on

What happens to projects that feature in Green Futures

Master class

Can sustainability specialists set the world to rights? Jamie Wallace and Esther Maughan talk to former graduates, finding out how their skills suit the real world.

Plastic plant-astic!

Car giant looks to sweet potatoes for a bioplastic future

The Magnificent Seven

UK companies win sustainable royal seal of approval

Sink or swim?

Threatened barge community leads on green solutions

Demolition rocks!

Laser technology enables building materials re-use

Winning ways

Rewarding rural innovation - Calor Gas

The anorak’s anorak

PV power dressing to drive the devices in your pockets

Masters of spin

Spiders teach scientists how to make strong silk

Brand stand

Esther Maughan on an unusual

Forged through fire

Campaign on the streets means change in the boardroom. Esther Maughan reports.

Driving Miss Crazy

Esther Maughan's courageous quest for a green car.

Carbon? Who’s asking?

More companies disclose their emissions to CDP

If you’re a major corporation and someone asks for the intimate details of your carbon footprint, are you inclined to respond positively? If the request comes from 315 investment companies managing assets of $41 trillion, then it’s probably unwise to refuse.

Less power, more money

US opens energy service route to reward power companies for selling less

Raising profits by reducing sales has become a paradoxical reality for US energy companies, as deals with the regulators in many states ‘decouple’ their bottom lines from their energy production.