Shock and ore
Public trust through shared prosperity is the key to a fast transition to a green economy. But Joan Carling and Phil Bloomer ask: are we, instead, entering an age of …
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Climate change: a moving story
The displacement of millions of people is the elephant in the climate change negotiating chamber, says Niko Humalisto. He navigates the path the world must take. Planetary warming is destabilising …
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Oil’s not well
Adam Hanieh is a Professor of Political Economy. His latest book, Crude Capitalism, aims to help us understand the nature of the fossil fuel economy, which he considers essential for …
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Hurricane Helene brought devastation — and an opportunity — to Appalachia’s power grids
By the time that Hurricane Helene made its way hundreds of miles inland on September 27, it had been downgraded to a tropical storm. But Helene remained unusually expansive and …
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At the flip of a billion coins
Can finance provide what humanity needs? As we approach 1.5ºC average warming, nature collapses, and conflicts escalate, this must be a reasonable question. Or is it naïve as finance is …
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The die in diet
While we depend on food, water, air, and shelter to survive, only our requirement for food demands that we rely on a complex international trading system for our day-to-day needs. …
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Power planting
Rohini Kamal outlines the promises and problems for Bangladesh in building solar arrays on its farmland. More than 100 countries met in Dubai during November last year where they pledged …
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Small ideas
Smaje is a social scientist turned grower in Somerset. When he is not working the fields, he is thinking and writing about what a future food system might look like. …
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The finish line
Jem Bendell is a self-described “doomster”. He started out as an activist promoting corporate sustainability in the 90s, shifting to academia as a professor of sustainable development recognised by the …
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The gravity of the situation
I grew up in the 70s in a world where there was a sense of expanding progress. The great wars were behind us and even when Thatcher/Reagan pushed dog-eat-dog neoliberalism …
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