Blue Sky Thinking for Sustainability

Sam Lakha

April 4, 2011

Physics might hold the solution to lightening humans’ impact on the planet.

Winton Capital Management has just provided £20 million in funding to Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University for the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability. “The two main reasons why (David Harding, hedge fund superstar and founder of Winton Capital Management) decided to fund the Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability was, first, he wants to provide the ‘freedom to discover’, the ability to invest in what scientists call ‘blue sky thinking’, and, second, he sees fundamental science is the key to creating the low carbon, low impact technologies of the future.”

Read John‘s thoughts on the potential contribution from physics on CSRwire‘s Talkback here.