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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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Badvertising Blog 

How to increase the chances of success at COP26

28th October 202128th October 2021 David Boyle 0 Comments advertising, COP26, polluters, sponsorship

So that was the budget then – and, bizarrely, on the eve of a hugely important climate conference, UK chancellor Rishi

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Badvertising Blog 

It is time we stopped the ‘brain pollution’ of high-carbon advertising

2nd October 20213rd October 2021 David Boyle 0 Comments badverts, brain pollution, chris van tulleken

The advertising industry has enjoyed a lack of scrutiny for its role in the climate crisis, but its time end

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Blog Weather Bombs 

Death in the valley – is this finally the alarm that can’t be ignored?

13th July 202113th July 2021 Bill McGuire 1 Comment climate emergency, Economics, extreme weather

With bad news from the global heating front arriving in lorry loads, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay

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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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Wild gardens
Blog Rapid Transition 

Re-Green the Village

3rd April 20215th April 2021 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments climate emergency, Easter, gardening, peat

It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature.

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Blog 

A practical solution to the other permanent pandemic

28th March 202128th March 2021 Edgar Cahn 2 Comments co-production., covid, isolation, loneliness, timebanking

By Edgar Cahn and Christine Gray Like Covid, social isolation spreads its harms to families and neighbourhoods within nations round

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Death of the High Street
Blog The Absent Corporation 

‘Super’ tax break for the company sucking life from high streets

10th March 202110th March 2021 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments corporations, HighStreet, retail, tax

The Chancellor’s recent ‘New Towns’ deal – £1bn for 45 towns (of which 40 just happen to be in Tory

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Blog Weather Bombs 

Global heating – a glimmer of light in the gloom?

9th February 20219th February 2021 Bill McGuire 0 Comments climate emergency, climate science, global heating, rapid transition

More bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year

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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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