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Author: Andrew Simms

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Badvertising – stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency

3rd August 20203rd August 2020 Andrew Simms 11 Comments advertising, climate emergency

‘Badvertising’ is a new campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency. This includes ads for cars, airline flights and fossil

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Blog 

Reckoning with Britain’s imperial legacy: time to search for new heroes

10th June 202010th June 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment BlackLivesMatter, colonialism, history

We need an open public competition to update our national monuments, remove imperial injustice and celebrate a new generation of

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Blog Rapid Transition 

National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces

1st April 20201st April 2020 Andrew Simms 2 Comments climate emergency, Economics, rapid transition, Work

How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?

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Human Nature Stories
Blog The Economics Reformation 

What are we like? Economic myth and the kindness counter-revolution

22nd March 202015th May 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Economics, Economics Reformation, Heterodox Economics, rapid transition

It wasn’t clear at the time, but a couple of weeks ago I gave what is likely to be my

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Why and how rationing works – lessons from rapid civic mobilisation

17th March 202018th March 2020 Andrew Simms 7 Comments

Nothing like the current upheavals around the world in the wake of the novel coronavirus, COVID19, have been experienced in

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Time for a genuinely civil, civil contingencies response

10th March 202010th March 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment civil contingency, COVID-19, disaster response, emergency, localism

Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for

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Bush fire destroys house
Blog Daily Climate Denial Weather Bombs 

Is Australia becoming uninhabitable?

6th January 20206th January 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment climate emergency, Economic policy, extreme weather, global heating, migration

Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and

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Looking ahead to economic prospects for 2020
Blog The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey

2nd January 20202nd January 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Economic policy, Economics, Heterodox Economics, Macroeconomics

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

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Flooding
Blog Daily Climate Denial Weather Bombs 

New Weather co-director Prof Bill McGuire resigns from scientific body over fossil fuel funding – full letter

19th November 201922nd November 2019 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, fossil fuels, science

As reported in this BBC News article, New Weather Institute co-director, Prof Bill McGuire has resigned from the Geological Society

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Blog Modern Folk Tales 

Knock Three Times – see our new collection of modern folk tales

28th October 201918th August 2020 Andrew Simms 5 Comments

Buy it here: Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world edited by Andrew Simms and

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