Growth

How to stop cities and companies causing planetary harm

From Nature Researchers must help to define science-based targets for water, nutrients, carbon emissions and more to avoid cascading effects…

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Time to Blow Up Electricity Markets

A piece by Yanis Varoufakis writing at Project Syndicate The European Union’s power sector is a good example of what…

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If Sadiq Khan really is a green mayor, he should stop the Silvertown tunnel

A Guardian comment piece on the Silvertown Tunnel. He risks ruining his legacy for a project that will bring more…

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TUC Report: 42,000 jobs can be created making UK schools safer, greener and more energy efficient

A useful report from the TUC. Issue date 07 Jul 2022 Funding already allocated covers just 3% of retrofits needed…

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Ecosocialist Discussion- a new blog

The work of Red-Green Labour supporter Alan Thornett will need little introduction for many readers of this website. Now Alan…

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The ‘energy security’ strategy that promises more oil and gas

From People and Nature. In this guest post, PETER SOMERVILLE examines the UK government’s “energy security strategy” The UK government’s…

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We created the ‘Pandemicene’

Via Portside This study suggests that the alarming pace at which new or reemergent viruses have caused outbreaks in recent…

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Doughnut Economics- five years on.

Alan Thornett reviews Kate Raworth’s 2017 book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist. This article first appeared…

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The IPCC WG3 Report: It’s ‘now or never’ for the planet

Alan Thornett argues that life on planet Earth is facing a perfect storm. The precarious agreement from COP26 in Glasgow…

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Experts and environmentalists pan Tory energy strategy

From Labour Hub The government today published its long-awaited strategy for increasing the UK’s energy independence. The strategy contains an ambition to…