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The gas price crisis – in a hole, stop digging, here’s how to climb out…

The gas price crisis – in a hole, stop digging, here’s how to climb out… Does it seem odd that in a gas price crisis, there are people arguing we should dig ourselves deeper into the grip of that particular fuel? We’ve been here before – and it never ends well. A poorly regulated banking […]

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The jump to pumps: how Finland found an answer to heating homes

The jump to pumps: how Finland found an answer to heating homes How to heat homes and workplaces without relying on fossil fuels is one of the more difficult challenges for moving rapidly to zero carbon economies. Within the European Union (EU), the heating sector is the most energy and carbon-intensive, accounting for nearly 50% […]

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Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis

Unnecessary travel? The return of breathable air and rethinking transport in a crisis Bowing, perhaps to inevitability, the group of scientists responsible for assessing ways to cut the pollution that causes global heating, working group three of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, announced in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, that for the first […]

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Zero carbon Britain: Rising to the climate emergency

Zero carbon Britain: Rising to the climate emergency  A new report out today from Rapid Transition Alliance founding member the Centre for Alternative technology (CAT) looks at how the UK can cut energy demand by 60% and reach net zero greenhouse gas emissions using current technologies, without relying on unproven carbon capture. By modelling the changes needed […]

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

How learning to share again cuts waste, and makes more resilient communities   See lessons 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. But from the moment we become adults the focus quickly shifts in modern economies […]

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New money meets the cost of change: how local currencies save economies and communities, and help them flourish

New money meets the cost of change: how local currencies save economies and communities, and help them flourish  In times of crisis and other upheavals, local communities have discovered that one answer to being failed by the mainstream economy is to print your own currency. Responses also range from age-old barter systems to time-banking and […]

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