The planet needs to be saved, people need well paid jobs in the areas they live, and everyone wants to see their heating bills reduced. A big investment in a…
05 Feb, 2024
05 Feb, 2024
The planet needs to be saved, people need well paid jobs in the areas they live, and everyone wants to see their heating bills reduced. A big investment in a…
18 Aug, 2023
Concern about climate change has increased sharply in the last few years; polling now indicates it is the joint-third most important issue to Britons, behind only the economy and inflation.…
13 Mar, 2023
The news that the BBC will not broadcast an episode of the new David Attenborough flagship British wildlife documentary Wild Isles indicates the power of acceptable and established narratives that…
24 Oct, 2022
This Is Only The Beginning: the making of a new left, from anti-austerity to the fall of Corbyn, A new book by Michael Chessum, charts the revival of left politics…
28 Jun, 2021
Photo by Thomas Millot on Unsplash It is easy to think of climate change as a problem for future generations to deal with and tackle, especially if its effects are…
04 Mar, 2021
If the chancellor had got his carbon sums right, he could have helped save the economy and the climate together. An ecological interest rate would help. ‘Climate change is as…
26 Feb, 2021
Simran Basi asks whether a green industrial revolution could help us tackle rising unemployment rates and climate change. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the UK economy and, nearly a year on…
25 Feb, 2021
Human security has a tautological ring to it. How can we talk about security while leaving out the people we are securing? Yet that is by and large how international…
05 Aug, 2020
The urgency of the climate change challenge has been visibly growing, dramatically illustrated by the bush fires that swept across much of Australia at the end of 2019. The emergence…
08 Apr, 2020
This article originally appeared on the Rapid Transition Alliance website. We are now in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the biggest and most sudden global upheavals for…
02 Oct, 2018
Ecotricity was founded in 1996 when founder Dale Vince brought renewable energy to the supply grid off his own back. Having been a self-sufficient man and what he describes as…
23 Jan, 2018
This think piece by Chris Bowers and Paul Pettinger makes the case for radical liberalism in today's political context. The authors, both linked to the Liberal Democrats, argue that their…