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Blog Rapid Transition Weather Bombs 

Why I Wrote Hothouse Earth

10th April 202310th April 2023 Bill McGuire 0 Comments climate emergency, fossil fuels, global heating, rapid transition

As the latest data reveals global average sea surface temperatures hitting a record high, Prof Bill McGuire explains why he wrote his uncompromising bestseller, Hothouse Earth

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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects in 2023: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey

3rd January 20233rd January 2023 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate, Economics, green new deal, rapid transition

Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for

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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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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects in 2022: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey

4th January 20226th January 2022 Andrew Simms 2 Comments Economics, Economics Reformation, green new deal, rapid transition

Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in

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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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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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Blog The Economics Reformation 

What are we like? Economic myth and the kindness counter-revolution

22nd March 202015th May 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Economics, Economics Reformation, Heterodox Economics, rapid transition

It wasn’t clear at the time, but a couple of weeks ago I gave what is likely to be my

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Can we transform the world in 12 years? New short film for the BBC

16th March 2019 Andrew Simms 1 Comment climate, climate change, fossil fuels, green new deal, history, hope, rapid transition

Here’s some evidence-based hope in a warming world… Working in collaboration with Tamarack Media, and the Rapid Transition Alliance, we’ve made this

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