In a rolling Utopian 'Think Tank', hosted by Utopia 2016 Artistic Advisor and co-founder of bread, print & roses, Ruth Potts, and Andrew Simms from co-operative think-tank, the New Weather Institute, at Somerset House in London, the only rule is that you have to...
New readers start here. Listening to the BBC, you might easily believe that the crisis involving rail services across Sussex and Surrey was just about industrial action. For the poor benighted passengers, that really isn’t the case – the serious chaos has now been...
Green isn't always positive. If you are so green you would make a cabbage blush; it means you are naive at best, ignorant and thoughtless at worst. That seems pretty much to be us, the voters. If we had taken proper care to safeguard the short lived Green Investment...
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.
