by Andrew Simms | Feb 27, 2020 | General, Media, Other coverage
Writing for the Rapid Transition Alliance, Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms explores the switch from ‘town gas’ to ‘natural gas’ to see what lessons we might learn for transforming our homes with a Green New Deal to meet the challenges...
by Andrew Simms | Feb 11, 2020 | General
As Boris Johnson bolts on a few buses and cycle lanes to sweeten the pill of the vastly expensive HS2 rail project, the first phase of which is unlikely to open for over a decade, many are waking up to the need for much faster action on the climate emergency. But,...
by Andrew Simms | Jan 17, 2020 | Media, Other coverage
Across the world, national and local governments are declaring a climate emergency on the back of dire warnings from UN scientists about the need for urgent and far-reaching action. As of November 2019, 1,191 jurisdictions in 24 countries representing over 290 million...
by Andrew Simms | Sep 14, 2019 | Media, Other coverage
Something is killing conventional economics and it’s probably an inside job. Reliance on abstract mathematics and absurd assumptions has brought the discipline into disrepute, even if politics and policy are still guided by the ghosts of its teaching. Nobody was...
by Andrew Simms | Jul 25, 2019 | General, History
Protestors call for a Green New Deal in 2008 The Urbanist podcast talked to Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms about origins of the Group, their 2008 report, the challenges that inspired it and the principles that underpin it. Andrew explores the way it is...
