Sophie Unwin argues that the most effective way of combating climate change may be to recognise how the issue intersects with human rights, and build a remade economy which addresses both
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This week Johnathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell continue their discussion about the Common Home Plan - Common Weal's blueprint for a Green New Deal for Scotland.
We went to speak to the Cumbernauld Tool Library about their efforts to address increasing consumerism and landfill issues.
TOOL libraries function on a membership basis, but allow access to a range of tools (and sports equipment, games, and craft equipment) to be borrowed and shared.
But how much is Scotland investing in these circular economy initiatives, and should they be investing more?
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This week Jonathon Shafi and Craig Dalzell are joined by special guest Jenny Floki who came along to the launch party for Common Weal's new project Our Common Home - A Green New Deal for Scotland.
Common Weal has launched a fully costed Green New Deal for Scotland - which they are calling 'The Common Home Plan' - which addresses not only climate change but a number of other environmental crises, as well as addressing social inequality.
THE PLAN has been broken down into all areas that need to be changed in order to become carbon neutral, and it lay out what will be involved in terms of cost and manpower.
Ahead of the launch of Common Weal’s Green New Deal report this weekend, Robin McAlpine argues that pursuing utopian ideals is more necessary than ever
ONE of my final dissertations at university was on utopia. I read more than a dozen historical utopias from Thomas More's 500-year-old original up until about the 1960s after which they peter out – my conclusion being we didn't have a utopia for our generation.