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Global heating – a glimmer of light in the gloom?

Global heating – a glimmer of light in the gloom?

by Bill McGuire | Feb 9, 2021 | Blog, Weather Bombs

More bad news was brought in January looking back over the previous year. Unsurprisingly, 2020 was either the hottest year ever recorded, according to NASA, or – the UK Met Office determines – it was just squeezed into second place by 2016. What is not in doubt is...
National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces

National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces

by Andrew Simms | Apr 1, 2020 | Blog, Rapid Transition

How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events? That is the case now with the suggestion that Britain should experiment with National Gardening Leave, an idea suggested in a 2012 pamphlet I wrote with my...
What are we like? Economic myth and the kindness counter-revolution

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

by Andrew Simms | Mar 22, 2020 | Blog, Rethinking Economics

It wasn’t clear at the time, but a couple of weeks ago I gave what is likely to be my last public talk for a while, reproduced below, at an event called Human Nature, organised by the Experimental Thought Co. Already it seems an age away, but even then our...
Can we transform the world in 12 years? New short film for the BBC

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

by Andrew Simms | Mar 16, 2019 | Blog, 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 short film for the BBC. Now that climate change is undeniable, some switch to saying that the action...
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