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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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Car Free Megacities
Car Free Megacities Projects 

Car Free Megacities

1st June 20211st June 2021 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Cities, Clean Air, climate change, pollution, Transport

Great cities set the tone for modern living and a new campaign for Car Free Megacities is aiming to improve the music

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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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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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Winter urban woodland
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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Economic prospects for 2021
Blog The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects for 2021: New Weather and the FT survey

7th January 20217th January 2021 Andrew Simms 2 Comments 2021, Economics, green new deal, Pandemic

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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Blog The Economics Reformation 

We can still bring high streets back to life…

17th December 202020th December 2020 David Boyle 1 Comment clone towns, high streets, local economics

By David Boyle, Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms “We created 400 clone towns nobody loves. We shouldn’t get upset –

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Blog The Economics Reformation 

“A pandemic spreads” – what are we learning about failed neoliberal economics?

16th December 202017th December 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Economics, Neoliberalism, Pandemic

Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods reflect on the accidental relevance of their performance-lecture Neoliberalism: The Break-Up Tour for the launch

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