Vorarlberg… Reasons to be cheerful.
Lindsay Mackie writes about coming down from the mountains with ideas about how our economics and politics can become better
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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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Happy 90th to the sane alternative pioneer
This week marks the 90th birthday of one of the pioneers of the new economics: James Robertson, one of the
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Why have they made it so degrading to use services?
Yes, it is hot. The heat has also added a layer of what I can only describe as degradation to
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Fire and flood: how we are overshooting the Earth
Our weather extremes are signs of a human population overshooting its planetary home, writes Prof Bill McGuire, what will it
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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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To save the NHS we have to be a little critical
So the NHS is 70 years old, and – perhaps it is because it is currently under threat from serious
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Waves of political nostalgia drown-out a lethal heatwave
A record-breaking heatwave hints at a lethal new climate normal, writes Prof Bill McGuire, but you wouldn’t know as the
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In praise of public purpose: a life story & the NHS 70th anniversary
This week is the 70th anniversary of the NHS. It was an extraordinary promise by a society to care for
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