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Story of change

Converting industry – how rapid transition happens in crises and upheavals

A 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...

Posted on 3 April 2020
Decent work, Clean energy, Digital progress, Enough money

Briefing

Crisis conversations – Reset #4: time, work and sharing economic benefits

A decade of economic hardship seemed to have transformed for increasingly urban workforces the promise of shorter working weeks and better work – life...

By Andrew Simms on 4 June 2020
Decent work, Enough money, Secure rights, Liveable cities

Story of change

Educating girls is more effective in the climate emergency than many green technologies

Hydrogen powered superyachts and donations from billionaires often grab headlines in the fight against climate change. Whilst more simple and potentially...

Posted on 21 February 2020
Secure rights, Enough money, Decent work

Commentary

Energy transition in an oil city: is a just transition possible? Part 2

This is the second of two blogs looking at the specific challenges of moving away from fossil fuels in cities that have been historically dependent on...

By Dr Daria Shapovalova on 8 August 2023
Decent work, Clean energy, Liveable cities

Commentary

Hope from the Seed of Trauma

The 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...

By Andrew Simms on 4 April 2023
Decent work, Enough money, Liveable cities, Good food, Efficient travel

Book

Hope Tales II: Land

We are pleased to annouce the launch of our second “chapbook” – a small but beautiful publication made for sharing, dipping into, perhaps reading...

Posted on 13 July 2023
Good food, Natural advantage, Decent work

Book

Hope Tales V: Love

We have finally arrived at the fifth chapbook in our series of Hope Tales on the grandest theme of all – that of Love. We brought together a group of...

Posted on 11 September 2025
Decent work, Digital progress

Report

How did we do that? The possibility of rapid transition

A booklet which collects stories of rapid transitions to show what we can learn from history and the present day about how people adapt to rapid change.

By Andrew Simms and Peter Newell on 24 April 2017
Clean energy, Better homes, Decent work, Digital progress, Efficient travel, Enough money, Good food, Liveable cities, Secure rights

Story of change

How learning to share again cuts waste, and makes more resilient communities

Sharing is one of the very first things we are taught to do as children, it’s almost the defining difference between being ‘good’ or seen as selfish....

Posted on 30 October 2019
Decent work, Clean energy, Better homes, Enough money
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