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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...
The world really has no other choice but the Green New Deal
This letter was in the Guardian on 7 December 2018: Your editorial’s revelation (6 December) that the 2014-16 carbon reductions were the result of an economic slowdown that helped fuel the rise of populism appears daunting for future climate-change initiatives....
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...
Prevent Another Economic Meltdown With A European Green New Deal
This article was first posted on Social Europe on 4 October 2018: n the acres of recent coverage about the causes of the Lehman Brothers collapse and how to ensure it doesn’t happen again, there was much emphasis on changing the EU’s economic imperatives away from...
Greening the economy
The letter was in The Observer on 30 September: Will Hutton is correct that public resistance to austerity and increasing support for tax and spend should provide a huge opportunity for Labour, but that its present stance on Brexit could keep it from power (“In...
Corbyn's green job revolution
This letter was published by the Guardian on 27 September: Jeremy Corbyn’s speech had three crucial and interlinked components: the need to transform the economy, to prioritise improving conditions in the “left-behind” areas, and a call for a “green jobs revolution in...
Cross party support for the Green New Deal
This letter was in the Guardian this morning, referring to the new Green New Deal report: Ten years ago this week the Lehman Brothers collapse heralded the worst global economic crisis since the 30s, the political, economic and social effects of which are still being...
Jobs in Every Constituency – the promise of the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal Group has launched a new report this morning. This is a summary: Jobs in Every Constituency A Green New Deal Election Manifesto Background To return a sense of hope for the future and economic security for all, the government and all political...
How we can save some of the jobs destroyed by rise of the machines
This letter was published in The Guardian on 10 August 2018: Kim and Nick Hoare’s heartfelt call for a cross-party action programme for tackling climate change is crucial (Letters, 9 August). Yet there is a way that the UK could contribute to substantially reducing...
The Green New Deal and automation
This letter was published in the Guardian on 4 May 2018: John Harris is right to say the left has articulated no comprehensive answer to the existing and future threats posed to employment by automation. Key to this must be prioritising labour-intensive sectors that...
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...
The world really has no other choice but the Green New Deal
This letter was in the Guardian on 7 December 2018: Your editorial’s revelation (6 December) that the 2014-16 carbon reductions were the result of an economic slowdown that helped fuel the rise of populism appears daunting for future climate-change initiatives....
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...
Prevent Another Economic Meltdown With A European Green New Deal
This article was first posted on Social Europe on 4 October 2018: n the acres of recent coverage about the causes of the Lehman Brothers collapse and how to ensure it doesn’t happen again, there was much emphasis on changing the EU’s economic imperatives away from...
Greening the economy
The letter was in The Observer on 30 September: Will Hutton is correct that public resistance to austerity and increasing support for tax and spend should provide a huge opportunity for Labour, but that its present stance on Brexit could keep it from power (“In...
Corbyn's green job revolution
This letter was published by the Guardian on 27 September: Jeremy Corbyn’s speech had three crucial and interlinked components: the need to transform the economy, to prioritise improving conditions in the “left-behind” areas, and a call for a “green jobs revolution in...
Cross party support for the Green New Deal
This letter was in the Guardian this morning, referring to the new Green New Deal report: Ten years ago this week the Lehman Brothers collapse heralded the worst global economic crisis since the 30s, the political, economic and social effects of which are still being...
Jobs in Every Constituency – the promise of the Green New Deal
The Green New Deal Group has launched a new report this morning. This is a summary: Jobs in Every Constituency A Green New Deal Election Manifesto Background To return a sense of hope for the future and economic security for all, the government and all political...
How we can save some of the jobs destroyed by rise of the machines
This letter was published in The Guardian on 10 August 2018: Kim and Nick Hoare’s heartfelt call for a cross-party action programme for tackling climate change is crucial (Letters, 9 August). Yet there is a way that the UK could contribute to substantially reducing...
The Green New Deal and automation
This letter was published in the Guardian on 4 May 2018: John Harris is right to say the left has articulated no comprehensive answer to the existing and future threats posed to employment by automation. Key to this must be prioritising labour-intensive sectors that...