Here's some evidence-based hope in a warming world... Working in collaboration with Tamarack Media, and the Rapid Transition Alliance, we've made this short film for the BBC. Now that climate change is undeniable, some switch to saying that the action necessary to...
Instead of the usual wrangling over policy, as it is a Friday and in honour of the global schools' climate strike happening today and the Fridays for Future movement, here is a song about climate breakdown written especially for us by our long-time collaborator,...
It is a strange thing, given the sound and fury emanating from the USA over the phrase, but the idea of a Green New Deal was actually homegrown in the UK. Especially homegrown in fact, for us, because of the involvement of New Weather's Andrew Simms. It was launched...
Key decisions are being taken now about whether or not the UK locks-in continuing dependence on fossil fuels. The fracas over fracking led some scientists with relationships to the oil and gas industry in a letter to The Times newspaper to support claims for a...
Lindsay Mackie looks at the costs and consequences when extractive capitalism is put in charge of providing essential public services, and asks why lessons are not being learned or companies held to account? It’s like irregular buses – along they come in unwanted...
As different parts of the planet freeze and fry simultaneously, Prof Bill McGuire says global warming is no longer a future problem, the reality is here and now... The term climate change never quite hit the spot as a description of what is happening to our climate as...
This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.
