We sense New Weather…

We are a co-operative think tank. Forecasting change and making the weather.

We bring together radical thinkers, makers, artists, and activists to design a rapid transition to a fair and ecological economy.

Badvertising

‘Badvertising’ is a campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency. This includes ads for cars, airline flights and fossil fuels. Now we know the damage done by fossil fuel products and activities, it’s time to stop promoting them.

Rapid Transition

Rapid economic transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees.

Explore our initiatives

Recently, in our blogs…

The true story of the sandwich makers

  Here’s a sandwich story with a very messy filling… On Monday The Daily Mail, which as we know can't see a bacon buttie without spotting the politics within, devoted its front page to the fact that no one in the UK wanted to make sandwiches any more. Greencore ...

Help! Another Banking Reform!

Its hard to work up much enthusiasm for the latest banking reform announcement- and knowing that the banks are already warning of the usual huge costs, worse outcomes, mayhem if it goes ahead, does not mean that we should automatically be on the opposite side to them...

Action at the Cinema

This is today's edited post- I wrote a much more anodyne version yesterday, before I read the detail of the Ritzy Cinema workers battle with their owners, mega cinema chain Cineworld..... The other night I went to our local Odeon to see the excellent A Much Wanted...

We all now rely so much on debt

The coalition is once again struggling to keep down the size of the deficit and is missing their targets for this year. It is down, of course, from the worrying levels of 2010. But my New Economics Foundation colleague James Meadway has written a very interesting blog...

Pattern for the people

We’re collecting patterns.  It is our way of getting to know our new home in West Sussex. There’s the great flyover at Shoreham that shoots over the Adur Valley, the gothic turrets of Lancing College across the river and the endless variety of flint walls. My...

Redefining ultra-micro economics

Redefining ultra-micro economics

New Weather is excited to be launching this new project in partnership with Friends Provident Foundation  which we hope will help heal the rift between the emerging ultra-local economic sector and mainstream economic policy makers. The underlying problem is...

Latest Publication

 

 

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.

We are pleased to work with…