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Patisserie Valerie – how finance had its cake and ate it…

Patisserie Valerie – how finance had its cake and ate it…

by Andrew Simms | 31 January 2019 | Blog, The Absent Corporation

I have a stake, or at least a pastry, in the story of the failed café chain Patisserie Valerie. In the early 1980’s I was a wide-eyed student in Central London, having wandered in from the provinces (Essex). Soho was a short walk from the college and at its...
Economic prospects for 2019: New Weather and the FT survey

Economic prospects for 2019: New Weather and the FT survey

by Andrew Simms | 2 January 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition

Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather took part. Last year, says the paper, the survey’s predictions proved highly accurate. For most the uncertainty of Brexit now clouds many...
Bill McGuire joins New Weather and issues a major climate warning

Bill McGuire joins New Weather and issues a major climate warning

by Andrew Simms | 23 December 2018 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Weather Bombs

The New Weather Institute welcomes Bill McGuire, the world leading academic authority on climate hazards to its team. Bill has been writing for New Weather for many months, and now he will be even more involved with our work on a rapid transition to a fair economy...
Smog Day fell as pollution rose & one of Europe’s worst air quality countries holds climate talks

Smog Day fell as pollution rose & one of Europe’s worst air quality countries holds climate talks

by Andrew Simms | 6 December 2018 | Blog, Clearing the Air, Rapid Transition

The possibility of rapid transition comes from accepting how much we are a part of nature and its cycles argue Nick Robins and Andrew Simms and marking Smog Day is one way to reconnect On 5th December 1952, a great smog enveloped London, England, killing thousands,...
The Rapid Transition Alliance – evidence-based hope in a warming world

The Rapid Transition Alliance – evidence-based hope in a warming world

by Andrew Simms | 3 December 2018 | Blog, Projects, Rapid Transition

As scientists call for rapid, far reaching action to prevent climate breakdown, and warn that time is running out, a new, unique international initiative – the Rapid Transition Alliance – is launching to reveal the possibilities and our hidden capacities...
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