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The shock that planted an idea

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Dhaka scavenger, Taslima, was delighted to hear about Project Bottle Economy that will enable her to earn more from her work. A pair of technology students in Bangladesh came up …

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Bottle Economy

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Watch their final presentation and discussion with our expert panel… View the presentation … and hear our expert panel’s reflections. … and read more about this great project and the …

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Constructive argument

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‘Building back better’ is all well and good but, ask Kate Bayliss, Ben Bowles and Elisa Van Waeyenberge, better for whom?   Investment in infrastructure is a major part of the …

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The Future is Public: Towards Democratic Ownership of Public Services

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From the publisher: Resistance to privatisation has turned into a powerful force for change. (Re)municipalisation refers to the reclaiming of public ownership of services as well as the creation of …

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How Africa’s public waste management schemes lead the way to a zero waste future

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The Covid-19 pandemic affirms the need not just for adequate public health care services, but also the many other services that are essential to keep society running and maintain a …

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Officials undermine rooftop solar movement in Puerto Rico in favour of natural gas

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In the wake of Hurricane Maria, the power system’s failure was a key factor in the estimated 4,645 deaths associated with the storm. Hospitals and senior homes lost air conditioning …

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The community initiative creating sustainable employment, food security and energy out of waste

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n the town of Kitale in Kenya, residents set up a successful project which tackles many of the community’s problems with one ingenious solution: waste management. For more than a …

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Judge Blocks Trump’s Arctic Offshore Drilling Expansion as Lawyers Ramp Up Legal Challenges

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The ruling restores Obama’s orders putting large parts of the Arctic off-limits to offshore drilling and throws Trump’s oil and gas lease sale plans into question. Click here to read …

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The Foundational Economy

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Privatisation, market choice, outsourcing: these are the watchwords that have shaped policy in numerous democratic states in the last generation. These were claimed to provide more efficient services so we …

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What economic reform thinking might have looked like if we’d bothered to do it.

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Here I am back… in the Treasury like a recurring decimal – but with one great difference. In 1918 most people’s only idea was to get back to pre-1914. No …

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