by Ruth Potts | Feb 24, 2021 | Events, General
According to Oxford University, a green recovery creates most jobs while recent research from London Economics shows that investment in increasing the pay of healthcare workers would cost only one fifth of its headline price tag. A green recovery will be vital if we...
by Colin Hines | Feb 15, 2021 | General
In a letter to the Guardian, Richard Murphy and Colin Hines make the case for a Green New Deal to overcome the social and employment effects of the Covid pandemic. There is no better example of what Larry Elliott perceptively terms “capitalism for dummies”, whereby...
by Andrew Simms | Jan 7, 2021 | General, Media, Other coverage, The Green New Deal
Each year the Financial Times investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. Green New Deal Group member, and New Weather Institute co-founder Andrew Simms, shared his thoughts on prospects for the year to come. The language of...
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...
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...
