by Andrew Simms | Dec 12, 2017 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Marking the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s challenge to the established church, the New Weather Institute and campaign group Rethinking Economics, with input from a wide range of economists, academics and concerned citizens, challenged the mainstream...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 31, 2017 | Blog, Creative Thinking
Knock Twice: is a new collection of 25 modern folk tales for troubling times by a group of leading scientists, economists, environmentalists and policy experts and activists. Realising the limits of facts and policy alone to change the world, an innovative group of...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 29, 2017 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Nations may opt-out of the EU, and regions out of nations, but is corporate power inescapable? Lindsay Mackie reports on a vital, missing debate Is corporate power a danger to democracies? This was the key, under-considered question that the New Weather Institute...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 25, 2017 | Blog
The first media question raised in response to new economic growth figures is typically about resulting interest rates, but our real interests should lie in considering the impact on our planetary life support systems. The BBC spoke to the New Weather Institute about...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 20, 2017 | Blog, Weather Bombs
In a world distracted by political tremors Bill McGuire warns we are waking real, angry giants Too many people think that climate change is all about the atmosphere – if they think about it at all – where the carbon pollution arising from human excesses is...
