Molly Webb
Former Demos researcher
Molly Webb worked as a Demos researcher on science, technology and innovation from January 2005 - August 2007.
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- The Disrupters A building services manager for a local council. A Cumbrian hill farmer. A high-end concierge service. And a Bath-based leadership coach. These are not the people who you would expect to be pioneering solutions to climate change. Yet each of them is responsible for innovations that could put us on the path to a lower-carbon society. from : mollywebb 11th July 2007
- Going... going... green Demos is going zero carbon, zero waste. We'll be looking for interesting carbon offsets initiatives, and will try and convince our landlord to let us have a roof garden. A bit more newsworthy perhaps, but today, one of London's largest hedge fund managers Man Group announced it is going carbon neutral. HSBC announced their plan to go carbon neutral in 2004.Last year, in a move supported by most environmental groups, Goldman Sachs went even further and started advocating for environmental... from : mollywebb 5th June 2006
- Show me the money I attended the Birkenhead Forum last night, where investors and investees meet to drink organic wine and talk about clean tech, sustainable business and social investments in general. Last night, Pooran Desai, one of the founders of BioRegional spoke about some of the business ventures they've been involved with since 1992, including BedZed, the zero emissions community by architect Bill Dunster, and more recently, One Planet Living, a joint initiative with WWF.When asked how to measure... from : mollywebb 13th October 2006
- Solutions after Stern Since the Brundtland report, now coming up on its 20th anniversary, we’ve had a international framework for sustainable development: environmental problems needed action from both the north and the south. Now we are faced with Stern’s latest economic modeling, and the point is the essentially the same: we’re in this together. Especially developed nations need to invest now to reduce our impact on the planet. We get it. Climate change is the most colossal market failure... from : mollywebb 3rd November 2006