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Consumption, not population, is the real ticking bomb
Andy Wimbush is nef‘s Communications Assistant and blogmaster. Who really picks up the bill for climate change? (Hat-tip to Climate Safety) It’s always the poorest who end up paying, even though...
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84 months and counting…
Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. On the eve of the Copenhagen climate summit we seem to be poised between the possibility of new directions for the...
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New economics of Christmas
Aleksi Knuutila is a researcher in the Valuing What Matters programme at nef If you are behind in your Christmas shopping, this is the perfect intellectual excuse for your shortcomings. In his new book...
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83 months and counting…
Andrew Simms is nef‘s Policy Director and head of nef’s Climate Change programme. The mother of all hangovers on 1 January 2010 has nothing to do with alcohol. From London to Washington DC it’s the...
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Big Numbers: Consumption and Population
Rupert Crilly is a researcher in Environmental Economics at nef The West’s most viral idea is that of material utility. Somehow everyday lives have become organised around a belief that happiness is...
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HuffPo on HPI
Juliet Michaelson is a researcher at nef‘s centre for well-being. An interesting piece by Kari Stoever in The Huffington Post, reflecting on the discussion about nef‘s Happy Planet Index that took...
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Worried about climate change and peak oil? The answer’s in a lemon
Dr Victoria Johnson is lead researcher on the climate and energy team at nef. Today, new zero-carbon energy company Lemonadability launches the first electricity tariff, fuelled entirely by lemons. CEO...
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Ration Me Up at the Design Museum, London
Dr Victoria Johnson is lead researcher on climate and energy at nef. Yesterday myself and a few colleagues headed down to the Design Museum, London for the launch of Sustainable Futures – Can Design...
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Conspicuous skies: a lesson from Eyjafjallajoekull
Dr Victoria Johnson is lead researcher on climate and energy at nef. I can’t recall the last time I’ve seen a pure blue sky without the tapestry of contrails that sketch out the invisible highways of...
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Tech-no-fix: why technical fixes won’t mitigate climate change
Are we too optimistic about the promise of a magic bullet to solve climate change? Two mechanical engineers argue we are - and the only way to fix climate change is think about an alternative economic...
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