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Squaring urgency and equity in the just transition debateIs it possible to accelerate transitions in inclusive ways? Can rapidity be squared with attending to questions of equity and social justice? The question...
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Squaring urgency and equity in the just transition debateIs it possible to accelerate transitions in inclusive ways? Can rapidity be squared with attending to questions of equity and social justice? The question...
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Smog Day fell as pollution rose & one of Europe’s worst air quality countries holds climate talksThe possibility of rapid transition comes from accepting how much we are a part of nature and its cycles argue Nick Robins and Andrew Simms, and marking...
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New economic stories are needed to unblock the political embrace of rapid transitionThe breakdown of the climate will only be averted by rapid and radical action, but political courage and imagination are blunted blocked by narrow...
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‘We march now so we won’t have to swim later’Many have wondered when the scale of public protest will match the scale of the climate crisis. That question increasingly is being answered by the sudden...
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A civic plan for a climate emergency; building the 1.5 degree, socially-just cityLeeds City Council became the latest local government body to pass a resolution declaring a climate emergency on Wednesday, 27th March. It becomes part of a...
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Can design catalyse transition? Thinkers and practitioners from a range of disciplines explore possibilities of rapid transitionIn the first of an occasional series on what members of the Alliance are doing in the field of rapid transition, we hear from Ruth Potts of Schumacher...
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Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the WorldEnvironmentalist Edward Davey’s new book, Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the World shows how little it would take to set a rapid transition in...
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How Ireland’s Citizens’ Assembly helped climate actionHolding a Citizens’ Assembly on climate action is one of just three demands by the headline-grabbing activists of Extinction Rebellion, whose...
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Museum of Rapid Transition: museums in a world facing existential crisisHistory teaches us nothing,’ wrote the Russian medievalist Vasily Klyuchesvsky, ‘but only punishes [us] for not learning its lessons’. Somewhere in...