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The latest from the nef triple crunch blog

We have 96 months to stop dangerous runaway climate change, so why is the Government urging us to go on a consumer binge? nef policy Director, Andrew Simms, argues that the current extraordinary period is the best, possibly last and only chance to chance our economy and our lifestyles. It is time to get off the consumer tradmill and onto a path that will not take us over the climate cliff. And, as Sam Thompson points out, neither is our debt-fuelled over-consumption the way to real well-being.

Meanwhile, support for A Green New Deal grows.
A Green New Deal was published by nef on behalf of the Green New Deal Group. It is a response to the credit crunch and wider energy, climate and food crises, and to the lack of comprehensive, joined-up action from politicians.

 

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nef news

More things prone to surprise collapse warns nef 26/11/08
Finance isn’t the only system that can crash. Food, energy and climate support-systems are more vulnerable and more prone to sudden collapse than previously thought warns nef (the new economics foundation) in a pamphlet released today.
Government must invest in new wealth of time as recession begins to bite, says nef 12/11/08
With the impact of the financial crisis yet to play out in full, government should invest now in timebanking to enable us to exchange the skills, knowledge and resources that we all have, says nef.
20 first steps to rise from ashes of crash: nef responds to Brown’s call for new ideas 05/11/08
In the midst of the financial crisis, nef responds to Gordon Brown’s call for “fresh and innovative intervention that gets to the heart of the problem” by publishing a set of 20 proposals which would breathe life into a phoenix-like new economy.
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Publications
From the ashes of the crash: 20 first steps from new economics to rebuild a better economy
Triple Crunch: Joined-up solutions to financial chaos, oil decline and climate change to transform the economy
Paradigm reclaimed
A Green New Deal: Joined-up policies to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices
Co-production: A manifesto for growing the core economy
Hooked on oil: breaking the habit with a windfall tax
Fool's Gold: How the 2012 Olympics is selling East London short, and a 10 point plan for a positive local legacy
Chinadependence
The Happy Planet Index
Growth isn’t working

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www.onehundredmonths.org
www.greennewdealgroup.org
www.climatespace.org

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