Commentary
Life, but not as we know itAmid the fear, uncertainty and personal loss that surround the current Covid-19 pandemic, people are starting to think about what form a ‘just recovery’...
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Converting industry – how rapid transition happens in crises and upheavalsA brewer of ‘craft’ beer starts making sanitising hand gel and a car manufacturer converts one of its factories so it can make medical face masks. Just...
Commentary
Covid-19 and the entelechy of rapid transitionLast year governments around the world declared a ‘climate emergency’ and then did pretty much nothing to act as if it is one. Now here’s Covid-19,...
Briefing
Crisis conversations – Reset #1: learning as we go for long term transitionHow quickly the brain adapts to the new normal – Emily Maitlis, BBC Newsnight, 25/03/2020 In late 2018 the Rapid Transition Alliance launched with the...
Story of change
From passive consumers to active producers – how crisis restrictions open opportunities for creative culture shiftsAs the global pandemic continues to reshape whole economies and the lives of populations, normal consumer behaviour has been suddenly altered. The focus has...
Story of change
Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisisBowing, perhaps to inevitability, the group of scientists responsible for assessing ways to cut the pollution that causes global heating, working group...
Briefing
Crisis conversations – Reset #2: learning as we go for long term transitionIn the debate over the global response to Covid19 a battle of hashtags has broken out between those urging a quick return to ‘normal’, and those saying...
Story of change
The great nature rebound – how nature steps up when people step back and both benefitAs humanity has retreated where possible behind closed doors to wait out the ravages of COVID-19, the rest of the natural world has emerged from the...
Commentary
Coronavirus: we’re in a real-time laboratory of a more sustainable urban futureA pause has been forced on urban life. Quiet roads, empty skies, deserted high streets and parks, closed cinemas, cafés and museums – a break in the...