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We are a co-operative think tank. Forecasting change and making the weather.

We bring together radical thinkers, makers, artists, and activists to design a Rapid Transition to a Fair and Ecological Economy.

Badvertising

‘Badvertising’ is a campaign to stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency. This includes ads for cars, airline flights and fossil fuels. Now we know the damage done by fossil fuel products and activities, it’s time to stop promoting them.

Rapid Transition

Rapid economic transition, including widespread behaviour change to sustainable lifestyles, is necessary to live within planetary ecological boundaries and to limit global warming to below 1.5 degrees.

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How to call-out everyday climate denial

How to call-out everyday climate denial

FOLLOW: @EverydayDenial You know things are bad when it takes Donald Trump pulling the US out of the Paris agreement for climate change to be discussed during the UK election. His climate denial is of the extreme and obvious variety: pages were removed from the...

A Thoughtful and Kindly People

A Thoughtful and Kindly People

For the moment let's leave the tactical discussion, the grim DUP, the Tory panic and the musings about Theresa May's lack of normal antennae to one side and concentrate on what might be the early, cheering conclusions of this unbelievable General Election. The first...

Missing election issues 3. That stupid magic money tree

Missing election issues 3. That stupid magic money tree

What is wrong with the Tory Central Office inspired act-of -desperation, the 'magic money tree' meme? The first is the patronising tone: as if they were talking to idiots, as if there was nothing they could possibly understand about our economy. It is never difficult...

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This pamphlet looks at how the UK is unprepared for a new era of crises and disasters. To illuminate the national predicament we look at lessons from recent history, and what we can learn, often from countries in the Global South, about the kind of local planning required and resources needed to be ready for when storms and other disasters strike near where we live.

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