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Lessons from Lockdown: The possibilities of rapid change

by Andrew Simms | Dec 1, 2020 | General, Resilient response, Resources

Flying to attend a conference might swiftly be replaced by holding an event online. Many people have started to grow their own vegetables at homes, allotments and community gardens. Reactions to the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, in China have led to emissions...

Lessons from Lockdown: Living with less stuff

by Andrew Simms | Sep 21, 2020 | General, Resilient response, Resources

During lockdown many people have adapted to create new, different, ways of living that turned out to be less wasteful, more thoughtful and kinder on our environment. And, given that ecological decline creates conditions for pandemics, how especially in relatively...

Lessons from Lockdown: More space for people and nature

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...

Lessons from Lockdown: Looking after each other better

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...

Investing in jobs and climate is key

by Richard Murphy | Aug 24, 2020 | Other coverage, Resilient response, The Green New Deal

Your editorial (19 August) correctly points to the fact that the “money no problem” approach to tackling the short-term upheavals caused by coronavirus must now shift to tackling the climate crisis. If not, it risks the further alienation of young climate...

Lessons from Lockdown from the Rapid Transition Alliance

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...
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