by Andrew Simms | Sep 15, 2020 | General, Resilient response, Step Change
Responses to the coronavirus pandemic showed that we can quickly make more space for people and nature in our towns and cities. This briefing on lessons from lockdown by Green New Deal group member, and Rapid Transition Alliance co-ordinator Andrew Simms looks at how...
by Andrew Simms | Sep 8, 2020 | General, Resilient response, Resources, Step Change
The first of the Rapid Transition Alliance’s ‘Lessons from Lockdown’ series, explores what we can learn from the first national lockdown about the way in which we can look after one another better. The way in which individuals, organisations and...
by Andrew Simms | Jun 30, 2020 | General, Resilient response, Resources
What can be learned from the coronavirus pandemic for the challenge of rapid transition in the face of the climate emergency and how can we build fairer, more equal societies? For several months the Rapid Transition Alliance, co-founded by Green New Deal Group member...
by Andrew Simms | Apr 3, 2020 | General, Media, Other coverage, Resilient response, The Green New Deal
A brewer of ‘craft’ beer starts making sanitising hand gel and a car manufacturer converts one of its factories so it can make medical face masks. Just two of the many global examples of how different industries are responding to the health crisis and economic shock...
by Andrew Simms | Mar 19, 2020 | Resilient response, Step Change
Writing for the New Weather Institute Lindsay Mackie and Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms explore how crises reveal fundamental flaws in underlying political and economic models and call for a new approach: It looks like it’s going to be a national emergency,...
