The new Cambridgeshire Provident Society is accepting applications for investment in its new ‘Sunshine Shares’ through Cambridge entrepreneur Peter Dawe’s www.notabank.co.uk venture.

A pioneering Cambridge CleanTech company is thriving as a result of support from global energy firm BP.

The new star in the Cambridge CleanTech firmament – Eight19 – is to raise a further £5 million this summer, Business Weekly can reveal.

John Best, the founder and face of EEEGR (East of England Energy Group) is to stand down as chief executive after 11 years to take on a new role.

Dr Aled Jones, director of the Global Sustainability Institute at Cambridge-based Anglia Ruskin University, is among signatories to a letter to Bank of England Governor, Sir Mervyn King, today warning of “systemic risk” to the UK economy from environmentally unsustainable investments.

With 30 per cent of all the UK’s energy consumed in homes, energy shortages and rolling blackouts will become a real possibility in as little as five years’ time, a sustainable technologies expert will warn tomorrow.

Cambridge based solar pioneer, Eight19, has commissioned a new development and manfacturing facility to produce next generation solar solutions.

Environmental expert and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Dr David Viner is in Cambridge UK next week telling allcomers: “I don’t believe in climate change.”