Green feeds from the web

Several weeks ago, at a roundtable event hosted by offsetting trade group ICROA, a challenge was issued to the fledgling industry. Alice Chapple, director of sustainable financial markets at Forum for the Future, was the one throwing down the gauntlet, urging the sector to come up with a new nomenclature to replace the intrinsically flawed terminology of "offsetting" and "carbon neutrality".

• climate change
• Green Biz

I am angry. Properly, volcanically, apoplectically furious, in fact. In the words of the peerless Dr Frasier Crane I am so angry "I could kick a puppy through an electric fan". The cause for this dyspeptic state of mind? The Kafkaesque world of the UK's attempts at green legislation.

• Green Biz

Our supply chains are broken. That, in a nutshell, is the diagnosis from software giant Oracle's recent study on the state of the world's supply chains. Of course, as a provider of software designed to help fix supply chains this conclusion is almost as self serving as David "show me the keys to No 10" Cameron's assessment of our supposedly "broken society". But that does not make the company's analysis of siloed, poorly integrated supply chains any less valid.

• Green Biz

It was the US novelist F Scott Fitzgerald who once observed that the "test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function". By that reckoning there has not been a great deal of intelligence on display over the past couple of weeks as the two sides of the debate surrounding the new Kingsnorth coal-fired power station bite chunks out of each other.

• Green Biz

The backlash is upon us. It was always only a matter of time before those opposed to the steady march of the green movement used the economic slowdown to try and force it back to the margins of the political debate - and this week they were out in force.

• Green Biz
• Management