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Seeing off the Brexit Blues with a Green New Deal

This post by Colin Hines was on Brave New Europe on 29 March 2019: Some History Shortly before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 a group of UK environmentalists and economists published the first ‘Green New Deal’ report https://www.greennewdealgroup.org/. This...

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The left must be bold and back a green new deal

Larry Elliott had an article under the above title in the Guardian on 31 January 2019. As he noted: Full disclosure here: I was a founder member of the UK Green New Deal Group in 2007 and have been banging on about the idea – with almost zero impact – ever since....

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Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal

From The Guardian on 4 January 2019: Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy efficiency in all buildings, renewables and local transport systems The counter to...

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Project hope and the Green New Deal

Colin Hines had a letter in The Guardian on 22 November tackling the difficult issue of how to address populism, which he linked to the need for a Green New Deal: Your chilling, but hardly surprising, front-page revelation that one in four Europeans vote populist was...

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Seeing off the Brexit Blues with a Green New Deal

This post by Colin Hines was on Brave New Europe on 29 March 2019: Some History Shortly before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 a group of UK environmentalists and economists published the first ‘Green New Deal’ report https://www.greennewdealgroup.org/. This...

read more

The left must be bold and back a green new deal

Larry Elliott had an article under the above title in the Guardian on 31 January 2019. As he noted: Full disclosure here: I was a founder member of the UK Green New Deal Group in 2007 and have been banging on about the idea – with almost zero impact – ever since....

read more

Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal

From The Guardian on 4 January 2019: Let’s make 2019 the year of a green new deal Richard Murphy and Colin Hines suggest a number of ways that revenue could be raised to fund energy efficiency in all buildings, renewables and local transport systems The counter to...

read more

Project hope and the Green New Deal

Colin Hines had a letter in The Guardian on 22 November tackling the difficult issue of how to address populism, which he linked to the need for a Green New Deal: Your chilling, but hardly surprising, front-page revelation that one in four Europeans vote populist was...

read more