Putting people at the centre of all clean energy transitions not only improves people’s lives but is also key to successfully implementing energy and climate policies. Local energy communities, or community-based energy projects, are showing clear benefits across the globe in deploying renewable technologies, improving efficiency, supporting reliable power supply, reducing bills, and generating localContinue reading “International Energy Association on Community Energy”
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We Need a Revolution in Universities to Help Humanity Solve Global Problems
Guest Blog by Dr Nicholas Maxwell, Science and Technology Studies, UCL The world is in a state of crisis. Global problems that threaten our future include: the climate crisis; the destruction of natural habitats, catastrophic loss of wildlife, and mass extinction of species; lethal modern war; the spread of modern armaments; the menace of nuclearContinue reading “We Need a Revolution in Universities to Help Humanity Solve Global Problems”
PROJECT BASED LEARNING
A recent book from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) highlights how universities are not providing the majority of their students with the critical thinking skills required by employers. In their study analysing data from the US, UK, Italy, Mexico, Finland and China, 45 per cent of students were found to be proficient in criticalContinue reading “PROJECT BASED LEARNING”
Celebrating the Community Energy Pioneers in Derbyshire
There is a growing appetite for the development of community energy programmes across the UK. Currently over 400 proactive programmes exist in the UK according to Community Energy England’s State of the Sector report, which have generated over £3 million of community benefits. In Derbyshire there are currently five second stage 1 Rural Community Energy FundedContinue reading “Celebrating the Community Energy Pioneers in Derbyshire”
Transformation Moment
Transformation Moment – can Britain make it to the Age of Clean? Preface This pamphlet is a ‘Call to Arms’. It comes at a time of confused and divisive global politics, accelerating climate damage and a dangerous retreat into tribal answers to international problems. The UK’s contribution has been to add to the confusion. Britain’s BrexitContinue reading “Transformation Moment”
Some Further thoughts on Green Washing
Greenwashing is a form of climate action delay so deepening our understanding may be the first step to preventing it. Or at least being able to call it out. And that is exactly what financial think thank Planet Tracker has done. Its new report deciphers six types of greenwashing: Greencrowding: hiding in a crowd ofContinue reading “Some Further thoughts on Green Washing”
SAFE AND JUST EARTH SYSTEMS
Humanity is well into the Anthropocene , the proposed new geological epoch where human pressures have put the Earth system on a trajectory moving rapidly away from the stable Holocene state of the past 12,000 years, which is the only state of the Earth system we have evidence of being able to support the world asContinue reading “SAFE AND JUST EARTH SYSTEMS”
New Ways of Seeing the World: Big History and Great Transition
Opening essay for a GTI Forum David Christian May 2023 As the first astronauts peered down on Earth from space, they saw the planet anew. They all had the same epiphany, as the sight of one small, fragile world, embedded in a huge universe briefly replaced the multiple, ever-changing impressions of everyday life. To buildContinue reading “New Ways of Seeing the World: Big History and Great Transition”
EMOTIONS AS A BASIS FOR ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE
The question is urgent: emotions about climate change do not directly lead to behavioral change, what is needed? Yesterday de Volkskrant published an interview with Martha Nussbaum, following her latest book ‘Justice for animals: our collective responsibility.’ I really want to share the last paragraph of the interview with you:“Making people feel guilty is not theContinue reading “EMOTIONS AS A BASIS FOR ECOLOGICAL BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE”
REGENERATIVE CULTURES:LEARNING AND UNLEARNING
In an earlier blog I suggested that we are beginning to see evidence of avoiding using the word “sustainability.” “Sustainability is steadily falling into disrepute, mainly because of its reformist piecemeal applications, which exclude wholesale systems change.” In its place terms such as “regenerative paradigms” have come into play. In its broadest sense this encompassesContinue reading “REGENERATIVE CULTURES:LEARNING AND UNLEARNING”
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