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Author: Andrew Simms

Badvertising Blog 

The Ministry for the Climate Emergency says – we’ve all got ‘planes on the brain’

11th August 202311th August 2023 Andrew Simms 0 Comments airlines, climate, climate emergency, flights, fossil fuels, minsitry, video

Following the first public health warning from the Ministry for the Climate Emergency about the dangers of brain pollution – its new

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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects in 2023: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey

3rd January 20233rd January 2023 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate, Economics, green new deal, rapid transition

Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for

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Contagious Tales
Blog Modern Folk Tales 

Contagious Tales of hope

1st February 20221st February 2022 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate emergency, folk tales, hope, rapid transition

Contagious Tales is a new collection of short stories that turns our troubled times into modern folk tales to shine

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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects in 2022: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey

4th January 20226th January 2022 Andrew Simms 2 Comments Economics, Economics Reformation, green new deal, rapid transition

Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in

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Badvertising Blog 

Demand for climate-damaging SUVs is higher when people are exposed to advertising – ‘green’ transport messages make no difference

10th December 202116th December 2021 Andrew Simms 1 Comment advertising, badverts, SUV

A ground breaking new study reveals that demand for climate-damaging SUVs is higher when people are exposed to advertising and

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Car Free Megacities
Car Free Megacities Projects 

Car Free Megacities

1st June 20211st June 2021 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Cities, Clean Air, climate change, pollution, Transport

Great cities set the tone for modern living and a new campaign for Car Free Megacities is aiming to improve the music

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Badvertising Blog 

How advertisers got people shopping in two-tonne trucks

7th April 20217th April 2021 Andrew Simms 11 Comments advertising, climate change, pollution, SUV

New study shows three quarters of ‘off road’ SUVs sold in towns and cities and calls on ad agencies to

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Winter urban woodland
Blog Modern Folk Tales 

100,000 dead

24th January 202124th January 2021 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Lockdown, Pandemic, Poetry

On the morning of Sunday 24 January, 97,329 lives had been taken by the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK, according

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Economic prospects for 2021
Blog The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects for 2021: New Weather and the FT survey

7th January 20217th January 2021 Andrew Simms 2 Comments 2021, Economics, green new deal, Pandemic

Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms

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Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods in discussion for Digital Theathre
Blog The Economics Reformation 

“A pandemic spreads” – what are we learning about failed neoliberal economics?

16th December 202017th December 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Economics, Neoliberalism, Pandemic

Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods reflect on the accidental relevance of their performance-lecture Neoliberalism: The Break-Up Tour for the launch

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