Awakening to a new economics
There are about 25,000 people, including 8,000 children, on Birmingham’s social housing waiting list, living in temporary accommodation or on the streets. Of the many estates built post-war to house … Continue reading The right to housing. What can we learn from the building of social housing in the 1960s?
The last book I read by Tim Jackson, Post Growth, saw him stepping back from what you might expect from an economist and taking a more narrative driven, philosophical approach. … Continue reading Book review: The Care Economy, by Tim Jackson
Retrofit Balsall Heath (RBH) is a bold, resident-led movement reshaping our neighbourhood in Birmingham from the ground up. Born from grassroots determination and built on the combined deep local knowledge … Continue reading Retrofit Balsall Heath – Passionate Community powered retrofit!
Here is part 4 of a serialised article recollecting the Camino To COP I was part of in the run up to COP26 in 2021, to inspire us in our … Continue reading A Tale of Two COPs
A post script to my blog, Total Disbelief, one year on. To our joy, and without needing a petition, after all, Parish Buying, the churches’ bulk-buying scheme has nowterminated its dealings with Total Energies and adopted … Continue reading Total Joy
As COP 30 approaches, here is part 3 of a serialised article recollecting the Camino To COP I was part of in the run up to COP26 in 2021, to … Continue reading A Tale Of Two COPs
The vast majority of us now accept that single use plastics are a bad thing. Most people will take a reusable cup for their morning takeaway coffee. So how long will it take for national and local government to realise that, if … Continue reading Retrofit First – an argument in favour of retaining the building that has been built
The Hell Bus in Glasgow during COP26 Between the Pope auctioning off his autographed Lamborghini for charity, Lockheed Martin bidding to run NHS GP surgeries, and the FBI’s social media … Continue reading Overtaken by Reality: Satire Inside a Dystopia
Joy in Enough 