It is time we stopped the ‘brain pollution’ of high-carbon advertising
The advertising industry has enjoyed a lack of scrutiny for its role in the climate crisis, but its time end
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Death in the valley – is this finally the alarm that can’t be ignored?
With bad news from the global heating front arriving in lorry loads, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay
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How advertisers got people shopping in two-tonne trucks
New study shows three quarters of ‘off road’ SUVs sold in towns and cities and calls on ad agencies to
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Re-Green the Village
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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A practical solution to the other permanent pandemic
By Edgar Cahn and Christine Gray Like Covid, social isolation spreads its harms to families and neighbourhoods within nations round
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‘Super’ tax break for the company sucking life from high streets
The Chancellor’s recent ‘New Towns’ deal – £1bn for 45 towns (of which 40 just happen to be in Tory
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Global heating – a glimmer of light in the gloom?
More bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year
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100,000 dead
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: New Weather and the FT survey
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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We can still bring high streets back to life…
By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –
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