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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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Action at the Cinema

This is today's edited post- I wrote a much more anodyne version yesterday, before I read the detail of the Ritzy Cinema workers battle with their owners, mega cinema chain Cineworld..... The other night I went to our local Odeon to see the excellent A Much Wanted...

We all now rely so much on debt

The coalition is once again struggling to keep down the size of the deficit and is missing their targets for this year. It is down, of course, from the worrying levels of 2010. But my New Economics Foundation colleague James Meadway has written a very interesting blog...

Pattern for the people

We’re collecting patterns.  It is our way of getting to know our new home in West Sussex. There’s the great flyover at Shoreham that shoots over the Adur Valley, the gothic turrets of Lancing College across the river and the endless variety of flint walls. My...

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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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