Bill McGuire is astonished at how a system of economic self-destruction still carries the label of 'progress', after long ago being called-out... Enjoying one of the seminal works on self-sufficiency - The Fat of the Land by John Seymour; first published in 1961 and...
Book: Finance Shrugged: 10 years on, will the banking crisis happen again? When: Weds 9th August 2017; 18:00 – 20:00 Where: Congress House, TUC Congress Centre, 28 Great Russell St, London, WC1B 3LS On the day ten years ago, when inter-bank lending froze and the Great...
I have been reading Robert Hutchison's excellent pamphlet on rapid transition - though it does not use that phrase - which includes a hopeful idea: that there is no limit to human empathy. In the end, as he explains, there is a race going on between the limitless...
Today The Guardian reveals the onward march of the mega farms defined as warehouses – effectively accommodating more than 40,000 poultry birds, 2,000 pigs and 750 breeding sows. We now have almost 800 of these mega farms in the UK. In the same week Ahimsa, a...
There are now serious doubts that Sir Martin Moore-Bick, retired judge of the Court of Appeal in England, will be able to take up the role of Chairman of the Grenfell Tower fire public inquiry. Residents say they have little faith in him; the local MP has called for...
Prof Bill McGuire writes: Grenfell Tower exposed one regulatory failure, but the government is ignoring other official advice to strengthen building regulations to protect homes, schools, hospitals & care homes from the heat of climate change, it's another...
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.
