Viking Economics – How the Scandinavians Got it Right and How We Can, Too
The book emphasizes how Nordic welfare systems, pensions and healthcare give people freedom: there are more start up businesses per capita in Norway and Denmark than in the US, for example as people have the freedom to take the risk of setting up their own business.
Evidence for the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry: Heatwaves, adapting to climate change
We need community-level responses to identify vulnerable people, communicate what they can do to stay cool and ensure that people check they are coping with the heat. The dangers of heat waves needs to be communicated
Escaping Growth Dependency
This report from Positive Money is a clear exposition of the factors which drive governments to pursue economic growth despite this being ecologically unsustainable. The focus is on how current system creates high levels of debt, which are only manageable if there is economic growth
Brexit
Andrew Pearmain's gas and Polemic against Brexit, the state of the nation and the biggest challenges we need to address.
Follow up to 'Apocalypses Now?'
A discussion of John Foster's public lecture looking at where we find hope in the face of a bitter climate reality.
Conflicted about emotions: ecological grief, love and truth
Emotions are important in explaining our motivations and behaviour but have been left out of the discourse on climate change. Mental health impacts of climate change need to be acknowledged. We need a collective mourning of what we are losing so we create space for the new, better ways of living
Evidence to the Parliamentary Committee on Political and Constitutional Reform
The Political and Constitutional Reform Committee held an inquiry looking at the future of devolution in the United Kingdom. The Committee will be considering how devolution should be taken forward in Scotland, and whether England, Wales and Northern Ireland should be offered further devolution
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too
John Blewitt's response to the international initiative of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate
The potential impact of Brexit on the prospects for a Green transition in Europe
This paper outlines the results of the transnational project “The potential impact of Brexit on the prospects for a green transition in Europe” implemented in 2017 by the green European Foundation
Brexit and the green transition in the UK and Europe
The Green European Foundation, with the support of Green House, held a conference in Europe House in London on ‘Brexit and the green transition in the UK and Europe’.
Dealing with Extreme Weather
An international conference linked to our 'Facing up to Climate Reality' project, on how to deal with the kind of extreme weather events that climate change is bringing.
