Story of change
Reducing roads can cause traffic to ‘Evaporate’In April 2019 a heavily-used bridge across the River Thames in London was closed indefinitely due to structural problems. Local media were full of alarm,...
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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...
Past Event
REPORT LAUNCH – Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing Fashion for a Fair Consumption Space24 November 2022 at 10:00AM - 24 November 2022 at 11:30AM
Join authors Hot or Cool Institute and an exciting lineup of expert speakers for the online launch of the report – Unfit, Unfair, Unfashionable: Resizing...
Past Event
Rethinking economics from Manchester International Festival with Andrew Simms5 July 2023 at 6:00PM - 5 July 2023 at 7:00PM
Story of change
Rethinking work – the sudden end of the regular 9-to-5 working day?For millions of people around the world working lives have been suddenly turned upside down. As offices, shops and other workplaces close in the face of a...
Story of change
Rojava in Syria – growing local democracy and defending ecology in the midst of conflictIn 2012 in Rojava, Northern Syria, a group of Kurds set up a secular, ethnically inclusive and bottom-up democratic system, in which all ethnic and...
Story of change
S**t matters – how the Covid-19 crisis reveals both progress and the challenge of universal sanitationNever has a resource crisis been brought so swiftly to the attention of the global North than when toilet paper was suddenly in short supply and even...
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Scaling behaviour change for a 1.5-degree world: challenges and opportunitiesBy Peter Newell, Michelle Twena and Freddie Daley Sustainable behaviour change has been rising up the climate policy agenda as it becomes increasingly clear...
Story of change
Shine On: Solar power is eclipsing coal, oil, gas and nuclear energy with rapid growth and cost reductionsA heatwave across Europe was a reminder of the dangers of climate breakdown, but also of the enormous opportunities for tapping into the clean renewable...