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The Medellin miracleIn the early 1990s Medellín, the second largest city in Colombia, was the most violent city in the world. The homicide rate reached an unprecedented and...
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The most efficient way to decarbonise may not be what many thinkThe most outstanding successes of decarbonisation policy in China, India, Brazil and Europe have come from targeted investment policies, including...
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The need and opportunity for green recovery & why we need ecological interest ratesIf the Chancellor can get his carbon sums right, he can help save the economy and the climate together – the CEE Bill and an ecological interest rate...
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The New Deal and a Green New Deal – turning economic and environmental disasters into an opportunity for national, public renewalA proposal for a Green New Deal from the dynamic new Democratic representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has become a rallying point for progressive politics...
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The new, old way forwardThe village emergency committee sounds like a possible subject for J. K. Rowling’s next novel of English rural life and is easy to mock. I felt my eyes...
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The polluter elite and the challenge of rapid transitionThe window of opportunity to prevent irreversible climate breakdown and mass species extinction is closing. Accelerating the transition requires directly...
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The post-Cold War Cuban food experimentWith the rising awareness of the speed and scale of action needed to prevent climate breakdown, is a nervousness about our ability to meet the challenge....
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The power of storytelling in building a better futureIn July 2021, Extinction Rebellion’s first global short story competition for all ages was launched. The Solarpunk Storytelling Showcase called on people...
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The rapid revival of Rwanda’s thousand hills: how people and policy brought nature backRwanda is known as the land of a thousand hills. But its once plush, green, and rolling landscape has suffered at the hands of urbanisation, pressure from...