National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces
How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?
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Why and how rationing works – lessons from rapid civic mobilisation
Nothing like the current upheavals around the world in the wake of the novel coronavirus, COVID19, have been experienced in
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Time for a genuinely civil, civil contingencies response
Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for
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Is Australia becoming uninhabitable?
Australia is a canary in the coal mine of global heating, Bill McGuire, Prof of Geophysical & Climate Hazards and
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Economic prospects for 2020: New Weather and the FT survey
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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New Weather co-director Prof Bill McGuire resigns from scientific body over fossil fuel funding – full letter
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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Knock Three Times – see our new collection of modern folk tales
Buy it here: Knock Three Times – 28 modern folk tales for a troubled world edited by Andrew Simms and
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Five fails in UK climate emergency action
As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of
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Rising seas and Extinction Rebellion: policing the wrong problem
Bill McGuire, Prof. of Geophysical & Climate Hazards, says that policing Extinction Rebellion looks like displacement by state authorities unwilling to
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