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Gleaning: fighting food waste and food inequality

Food waste is a huge global problem and tackling it in a variety of ways at all levels will be essential for a rapid transition towards a sustainable food...

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An outlook of prosumer agency in Africa

Historically, consumption in Africa has been overlooked. African societies are seen as providers of globally circulated primary raw materials, but often the...

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Norway and the climate debate in the election

Could a country that has built its whole identity and welfare on oil, start winding up its searching and drilling for oil? The answer might be bubbling in...

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What cycling and struggles for indigenous cultural revival in Colombia can teach about transition

Rapid Transition Alliance contributor Matt Rendell’s new book, Colombia Es Pasión, was awarded ‘Cycling Book of the Year’ 2021, and it is about much...

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World Car Free Day

Today is World Car Free Day – a day where people all around the world get to experience the wonder, joy and freedom that comes with removing cars from our...

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BP ‘dropped’ as C4 paralympics sponsor

Oil company BP disappears from Channel 4 coverage despite being originally announced as Paralympic Games sponsor. The oil giant BP is no longer a...

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Rapid transition is possible, if we put local authorities at the heart of our net zero strategy

The IPCC report published on 9 August made for gloomy reading on the true scale of the climate crisis now facing humanity. But the report made clear that...

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Climate Justice must be central to an inclusive and effective COP26 agenda

A summer of record-breaking heatwaves, floods and fires have seen calls for the world leaders meeting at COP26 to take urgent action, realistically bold...

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Averting the insect apocalypse

There is no doubt that insects are in decline: every year there are slightly fewer butterflies, fewer bumblebees – fewer of almost all the myriad little...