The BBC admits it got climate wrong, but it’s yet to get it right
The BBC belatedly admitted mistakes over its reporting of global warming after public pressure and official censure. but the reporting
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Renewable energy at all hours, year round, globally? The models now say ‘Yes’!
There is no shortage of evidence for humanity’s environmental crises. Data from a global catalogue of recent extreme weather events
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Leaking water, draining finance: the case for putting water in public hands
In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much
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New publication: Can Design Catalyse the Great Transition?
Everything we make includes an element of design. But design isn’t limited to household objects, clothes or buildings, it influences
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Praising Parliamentary Watchdogs
The giant services firm Carillion collapsed under the weight of its own greed, hubris and mismanagement in January this year.
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‘Das Kapital’ in 60 mins: Sarah Woods’ new BBC Radio play
New Weather’s Sarah Woods adapts Das Kapital for BBC Radio 4, broadcast on the bicentenary of Karl Marx’s birth… LISTEN
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Running to stand still in the North Sea clean-up
One of the peculiar implications of our obsession with oil and fossil fuels is the strange way the UK has
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‘Deconomisation’: the growing conversation on economics reformation
Economics associations from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic stage the first international conference on the 33 Theses ‘Deconomisation‘
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The economics of gobbling
Shouting ‘look over there’ while getting on with something nefarious over here is a tried and true tactic. So as
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March tale: what would you do, in the cold, cold Winter?
Folk tales often grow from periods of great hardship. The tale of Hansel and Gretel, though first written down
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