There are moments – and all too few of them – when you think someone is trying to do the right thing. Andrew Tyrie at
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A Scottish Green New Deal is incompatible with the SNP Growth Commission report
Nicola Sturgeon committed the SNP to a Green New Deal yesterday. I am, of course, pleased. But I also have a problem. At the same
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The 2020s: the decade of the Green New Deal?
I have already commented on creating narratives this morning. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been doing that in this film. I do not apologise for sharing it.
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Resilient narratives
I had a fascinating evening yesterday. I attended an event at the Young Vic in London where a number of economists, environmentalists, activists and others
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Can we get rid of Mastercard and Visa?
Mastercard and Visa extract massive rents from our economies – for the benefit of the banks that own them. Some will have seen that a
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Renewable energy could fuel the planet
I share this straight from the blog of my fellow Green New Deal Group member Jeremy Leggett, who knows more on the issue of energy
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It’s time for accountancy to put climate change at the core of financial reporting
Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, has an article (with coauthors) in the Guardian this morning on the threat that climate change
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We’re really not very good when it comes to matters of time
Adam Leaver of Sheffield University tweeted this comment last night to Len Seabrooke, Rasmus Christensen and myself. We are all working on research proposals at
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Lessons from Notre Dame
I watched Notre Dame burning last night, along with a great many others, I am sure. Of course it can be described as a tragedy,
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