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From terror attacks in London and Manchester, to the US withdrawal from the Paris climate treaty, and the Grenfell Tower fire: bad news has dominated in recent months. But there are inspiring [...]

Finland becomes the first European country to pilot a basic income scheme. Could unconditional monthly payments curb mass unemployment and create more equal societies?

Money creation programmes usually increase inequality and household debt. But there is an alternative, writes Fran Boait of campaigning organisation Positive Money

Green-investment co-operative ArBolivia aims not only to preserve the Amazon ecosystem, but to use planting native trees to support local livelihoods and create a financially viable investment [...]

Nathan Schneider investigates how transforming the financial system could shift the way debts are formed and dealt with; from a system where the chief reason to lend is for profit, to one where [...]

Despite an increasingly loud conversation about inequality, its root causes remain intact. Stewart Lansley argues that the government has the power to tackle the issue if only it would consider [...]

Proposed regulations aim to make bankers more accountable for their actions, but will they have a tangible impact on crumbling financial systems?

Ben Dyson talks about the progress made by Positive Money in sparking the debate about monetary reform over the past four years

Mainstream economics teaching fails to address 21st century issues, say students from 41 protest groups around the world

The world’s first Fair Tax Mark has been launched in a bid to address the issue of tax transparency

Despite the Co-op Bank’s troubles, the ethical finance sector is thriving, writes Charlotte Webster

After two years of negotiations, the European parliament has reached a deal to clamp down on speculation in food markets

Never before have we as a society been so interested in the economy, and thanks to the recession, traditional banking models are being cast under the spotlight. Claudia Cahalane considers how a [...]

Ethical and sustainable investments have performed 6% better than non-ethical funds

Money separates us from what we consume and hides us from the impacts of our behaviour. But there is an economic model that could not only bring us closer to each other and to the effects of how [...]

The new boss of Barclays Bank has told his workforce that they must sign up to a new set of banking values – or quit

New regulations to make the process of switching bank accounts easier means that up to 14 million UK high street bank customers are expected to change banks in 2013

As part of National Ethical Investment week, Matthew Butcher from FairPensions discusses how people saving for a pension can help change the world for the better

A new kind of financial organisation is promising to challenge the way that banks do their daily business

Peter Blom, CEO and chairman of Triodos Bank, says that banks need to have real values and by mimicking natural systems they can operate more effectively