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Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s $15bn bet on the environment

1 week ago | ft.com | Oliver Balch

All eyes in Builders Vision’s Chicago office, in the fashionable Fulton Market district, are trained on a large screen showing a coiled...
Mercadona: good employment practices pay off

1 month ago | ft.com | Oliver Balch

In Spain’s generally low-wage supermarket sector, national chain Mercadona stands out for paying 27 per cent over the national minimum...
Gina McCarthy: ‘U.S. companies may not be putting their hands up, but they are still investing in clean energy’

1 month ago | reuters.com | Oliver Balch

May 7 - As a former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and ex-White House national climate change adviser, Gina McCarthy thought she had seen it all. But little had prepared even this veteran of Washington D.C. for the abrupt reversal of environmental policy under the new Trump administration. Faced with a barrage of pro-fossil fuel rhetoric and sweeping budget cuts to green transition programmes, the climate movement is justified in feeling it is under attack, she says.
Renewables sector stays upbeat but clouds gather over global energy

2 months ago | ft.com | Oliver Balch

Clean energy groups in the Americas are upbeat about their growth prospects, even at a time when the US is rowing back on a swath of...
For the love of: Folklore

Mar 26, 2025 | positive.news | Oliver Balch

David Clarke will distill a lifelong love of folklore into the new National Folklore Study, which is due to begin in 2026. As part of the social glue that holds us together, myths and legends help meet our need for enchantment, he explains Culture Education Lifestyle Society UK David Clarke will distill a lifelong love of folklore into the new National Folklore Study, which is due to begin in 2026.
‘It’s beautiful, don’t you think?’ The urban miners unearthing treasure in Belgium’s homes and garages

Mar 19, 2025 | msn.com | Oliver Balch

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‘It’s beautiful, don’t you think?’ The urban miners unearthing treasure in Belgium’s homes and garages

Mar 19, 2025 | theguardian.com | Oliver Balch

Kelly Sempels’ dad was a builder, most of her five brothers are builders, and, until leaving her last job, she too was a builder. Now, after a career fixing roofs and laying bricks Sempels is plying a new trade: “urban mining”. She and her crew of six still dress and talk like builders, but their focus now revolves less around construction than dismantling.
Workers are going public about bad bosses

Mar 5, 2025 | ft.com | Oliver Balch

Between a tightening labour market, return-to-office mandates and bosses calling for more “masculine” leadership, the balance of power...
Wave of regulation drives demand for sustainability advice

Feb 27, 2025 | ft.com | Oliver Balch

In a tight market for sustainability services, the UK consulting industry is reaping the benefits of a rise in climate-related...
Library Lives by Stella Halkyard

Feb 19, 2025 | the-tls.co.uk | Dennis Duncan |Oliver Balch |Alex Peake-Tomkinson |Muireann Maguire

The John Rylands Library in central Manchester is both a national treasure and a national treasury. Housed in a church-like late-Victorian gothic building is one of the country’s largest collections of rare books and manuscripts outside Oxbridge and the British Library. Not just books and papers, but also objects – a lock of William Wordsworth’s hair, and of Marcel Proust’s, Mrs Gaskell’s sewing scissors, the lining of Walt Whitman’s hat.

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Oliver Balch

Articles

Walmart heir Lukas Walton’s $15bn bet on the environment

Mercadona: good employment practices pay off

Gina McCarthy: ‘U.S. companies may not be putting their hands up, but they are still investing in clean energy’

Renewables sector stays upbeat but clouds gather over global energy

For the love of: Folklore

‘It’s beautiful, don’t you think?’ The urban miners unearthing treasure in Belgium’s homes and garages

‘It’s beautiful, don’t you think?’ The urban miners unearthing treasure in Belgium’s homes and garages

Workers are going public about bad bosses

Wave of regulation drives demand for sustainability advice

Library Lives by Stella Halkyard

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