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Contagious Tales
Blog Modern Folk Tales 

Contagious Tales of hope

1st February 20221st February 2022 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate emergency, folk tales, hope, rapid transition

Contagious Tales is a new collection of short stories that turns our troubled times into modern folk tales to shine

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Sky with wind turbine
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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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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A woodland in Sweden
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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Badvertising
Badvertising Projects 

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 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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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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