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Wild gardens
Blog Rapid Transition 

Re-Green the Village

3rd April 20215th April 2021 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments climate emergency, Easter, gardening, peat

It’s time to put the secateurs, herbicide and peat compost away and let the over-manicured English village return to nature.

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Blog Modern Folk Tales Rapid Transition 

POWER OUT – the new BBC ‘power & protest’ thriller by New Weather’s Sarah Woods

22nd August 202022nd August 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments BBC, energy, environment, power, protest, thriller

POWER OUT is a new BBC thriller about power and protest on a dying planet, starring Vinnie Heaven and written

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Blog Rapid Transition Weather Bombs 

Is the climate worst case getting worse?

6th July 20206th July 2020 Bill McGuire 1 Comment

It’s not what most people want to hear at the moment, but the impact of Covid19 on society and economy

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Where do we begin the transition?

18th May 202018th May 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments COVID-19, electoral reform, green new deal, localism

In a recent poll only nine percent of respondents said they wanted to return to the world as it was

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Blog Rapid Transition 

National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces

1st April 20201st April 2020 Andrew Simms 2 Comments climate emergency, Economics, rapid transition, Work

How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Why and how rationing works – lessons from rapid civic mobilisation

17th March 202018th March 2020 Andrew Simms 7 Comments

Nothing like the current upheavals around the world in the wake of the novel coronavirus, COVID19, have been experienced in

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Time for a genuinely civil, civil contingencies response

10th March 202010th March 2020 Andrew Simms 1 Comment civil contingency, COVID-19, disaster response, emergency, localism

Lindsay Mackie and Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for

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Blog Rapid Transition 

Five fails in UK climate emergency action

22nd October 201922nd October 2019 Andrew Simms 1 Comment climate, climate breakdown, Economics, fossil fuels

As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of

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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Climate Breakdown? We need to talk about the Treasury

10th October 201910th October 2019 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate breakdown, Economics, Extinction Rebellion, fossil fuels, green new deal, People's Assembly, Treasury

Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted

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Blog Rapid Transition 

The Green New Deal – now make it happen…

20th September 201920th September 2019 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate breakdown, climate strike, Economics, Economics Reformation, Fridays4Climate, green new deal

We all know there is a climate emergency, but what we can do about it? Any action capable of working

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