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Blog Modern Folk Tales 

Why people long for stories

10th November 201711th November 2017 David Boyle 0 Comment

“It takes a civilized man,” said George Bernard Shaw, “to be deeply moved by statistics.” The whole edifice of Fabian

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

Milking it

3rd November 2017 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comment

Systemic corporate failures are leaving our glass of milk half empty…  There’s a milk and butter shortage threatened, who would

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Blog Modern Folk Tales 

New: modern folk tales from top scientists, economists, ecologists & activists

31st October 201713th November 2017 Andrew Simms 0 Comment

Knock Twice: is a new collection of 25 modern folk tales for troubling times by a group of leading scientists, economists,

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

Can any country opt-out of Google?

29th October 201729th October 2017 Andrew Simms 0 Comment

Nations may opt-out of the EU, and regions out of nations, but is corporate power inescapable? Lindsay Mackie reports on a

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Blog Clearing the Air Projects 

Clearing the air – a tale of two cities & #SmogDay

15th June 201720th December 2017 Andrew Simms 4 Comments

See the SmogDay website for the real human stories behind the statistics on pollution.   In December 2015, pollution causing

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Blog Daily Climate Denial Projects 

How to call-out everyday climate denial

10th June 2017 Andrew Simms 1 Comment

FOLLOW: @EverydayDenial You know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement

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Blog Projects Rapid Transition 

New study: How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition

24th April 201710th June 2017 Andrew Simms 3 Comments

A new study by the ESRC STEPS Centre at Sussex University and the New Weather Institute points to historical evidence

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Projects The Absent Corporation 

How companies are hiding from customers

28th February 201710th June 2017 David Boyle 2 Comments

Why are large companies trying to distance themselves so much from their customers? Listen, starting at 20 minutes 28 seconds: the

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Blog Modern Folk Tales 

The Ogre – a modern folk tale

10th November 20161st November 2017 Andrew Simms 1 Comment

This story is an extract from our new collection of 23 modern folk tales for troubling times There was a knock

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Blog Modern Folk Tales Projects 

There was a knock at the door: modern folk tales for troubling times

7th November 201613th November 2017 Andrew Simms 3 Comments

“Stories are one of the most ancient and most effective ways of making sense of the world,” wrote Philip Pullman

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