It has been a quiet month in the life of this superhero. Nobody’s bothering to save the planet; they are more concerned with saving their jobs. I did ask some of the bankers at Lehman brothers leaving their desks with cardboard boxes full of their possessions if they would be recycling the boxes, but the green air suddenly turned blue. Kevin Brennan, head of sustainability at VELUX, warns that the parlous state of the UK property market is posing a serious threat to the UK’s green agenda and hindering further development of eco-technologies. More »
Brickmaker Wienerberger has announced that it will close two of its plants, while others will be temporarily suspended, as a consequence of the housing downturn. More »
