Initiatives that are in progress, right now.
As scientists call for rapid, far reaching action to prevent climate breakdown, and warn that time is running out, a new, unique international initiative - the Rapid Transition Alliance - is launching to reveal the possibilities and our hidden capacities for making...
Lindsay Mackie writes about how a formerly poor, marginal corner of Austria made the transition to be a thriving green economy The Vorarlberg region of Austria didn’t start off with many of the advantages which have made other places rich in the modern world. No...
A new report says climate change is a public health crisis needing behaviour change similar to smoking, drink driving or HIV/AIDS. Efforts to change public behaviour to address climate change must learn from the great campaigns of previous decades on smoking, drink...
There is no shortage of evidence for humanity’s environmental crises. Data from a global catalogue of recent extreme weather events warns of a climate emergency. But is there also evidence for optimism? Paul Allen, project leader for the Zero Carbon Britain...
In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much as people actually use), but the money they drain from a vital piece of our national infrastructure that’s the problem, writes Miriam Stewart, from the...
Everything we make includes an element of design. But design isn't limited to household objects, clothes or buildings, it influences whole systems that shape the way we live. The climate crisis and corrosive inequality tell us that the systems we have need a redesign,...
The giant services firm Carillion collapsed under the weight of its own greed, hubris and mismanagement in January this year. Earlier this month the excellent Joint Work and Pensions and Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Parliamentary produced one of those...
New Weather's Sarah Woods adapts Das Kapital for BBC Radio 4, broadcast on the bicentenary of Karl Marx's birth... LISTEN HERE: Das Kapital, the drama, until 4th June on BBC Radio i-player Marx's Das Kapital is one of the most influential books of the modern world. It...
Economics associations from Hungary, Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic stage the first international conference on the 33 Theses 'Deconomisation' - definition - noun: undoing the hold over society of a single, dominant economic approach It was 29 years since I...
Shouting ‘look over there’ while getting on with something nefarious over here is a tried and true tactic. So as the genuine scandal of the appalling Cambridge Analytica unfolds, it’s worth looking at what else is happening. Which brings us to Melrose. This company is...