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Hope from the Seed of TraumaThe pandemic years were the pivot for a rapid shift bringing a better new world into being. Andrew Simms travels through time in a special feature for New...
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Abolishing an ancient institution: the fight against slaveryIt is complicated and challenging for a society to undergo radical transition. There are many vested economic interests that can experience losses from such...
Reset series
Loving making clothes lastIn the cracks of shopping habits broken by the pandemic, a new group of initiatives blossomed. Attitudes shifted towards clothing, fashion and shopping in...
Reset series
Pandemic epiphaniesEat, sleep, work, shop. Sometimes in consumer societies it seems there’s not much more to life. In pre-pandemic days, the old economic system wanted...
Reset series
Slowing down fast fashionDuring the pandemic, so many people had extra time because they stopped commuting to work or attending social functions that it caused a huge shift in...
Reset series
Repair and maintenance – how we learned to use our hands againThe human urge to mend, repair and improve is nothing new – it has just been forgotten and gone untrained, buried under an avalanche of mass produced...
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A one-stop shop for greener homesIt is about time the UK government got to grips with retrofitting existing housing to scale up home energy efficiency across the country. One way to do this...
Story of change
Work less, recover better? How a shorter working week answers many post-pandemic problemsThe four-day week is gaining interest and new supporters as an effective response to economic and employment problems caused by Covid-19. Working less to...
Story of change
Building back better: South Korea shows the challenge and opportunity of green stimulus spending for Covid recoveryIs the world poised to learn from the missed chance of 2008 and take the opportunity of rebuilding after a huge economic shock to make a rapid, low carbon...