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Story of change

Solving the tree planting puzzle: natural forest regeneration for rapid transition and community empowerment

When it emerged that a miscalculation by the oil company Shell meant that its new scenario for meeting the 1.5C climate target would need a new forest about...

Posted on 18 February 2021
Natural advantage

Story of change

Heating households not the planet: from China to Denmark rapid transition in heating brings warmer homes with less climate cost

Winter is coming in the northern hemisphere and keeping homes warm is on everyone’s minds. Much housing stock is old, inefficient and leaks heat, and the...

Posted on 10 December 2020
Clean energy, Better homes

Story of change

How does your city grow? Lockdown illuminates urban farming and gardening’s potential

The lockdown and threat of a global pandemic has turned a lot of people who previously may have depended solely on supermarkets for their food into...

Posted on 14 May 2020
Good food, Natural advantage, Liveable cities

Story of change

S**t matters – how the Covid-19 crisis reveals both progress and the challenge of universal sanitation

Never has a resource crisis been brought so swiftly to the attention of the global North than when toilet paper was suddenly in short supply and even...

Posted on 5 May 2020
Safe water, Secure rights, Liveable cities, Better homes

Story of change

Converting industry – how rapid transition happens in crises and upheavals

A brewer of ‘craft’ beer starts making sanitising hand gel and a car manufacturer converts one of its factories so it can make medical face masks. Just...

Posted on 3 April 2020
Decent work, Clean energy, Digital progress, Enough money

Story of change

Dethroning king coal – how a once dominant fuel source is falling rapidly from favour

Electricity fuelled by coal is experiencing a record decline. 2019 is expected to show the biggest fall yet, after decades of increases. An accelerated move...

Posted on 22 January 2020
Clean energy, Enough money

Story of change

Banking for good: trust, transition and the return of public banks

Ecological and economic crises are calling private banks into question, and proving a catalyst to a new wave of public banks. Plans to make rapid transition...

Posted on 11 December 2019
Enough money

Story of change

Back from the brink: how the world rapidly sealed a deal to save the ozone layer

As a chorus of questions rises about whether the world can act quickly enough to prevent climate breakdown, one lesson from recent history suggests rapid...

Posted on 11 June 2019
Clean energy

Story of change

The rise of the rights of nature

A global movement to give nature rights is growing in the face of a mass extinction event driven by climate change and human over-use of the natural...

Posted on 11 March 2019
Clean energy, Secure rights, Safe water
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