Share Catch Chile’s waste reduction bus – how behaviour change, new infrastructure and different business models are cutting waste
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
This is the story of the potential for a rapid transformation of the waste crisis illustrated by one social enterprise in Chile, and its work to encourage people in communities and in industry to produce less waste and to recycle more.
The Sunrise Movement: how a US grassroots youth movement helped set the national climate agenda for rapid change
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The new popularity of the term Green New Deal can be credited to this group of young climate activists known as the Sunrise Movement.
Reclaiming power
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The rapid rise of community renewable energy and why the added benefits of local, clean power can help accelerate transition
A fast plant for rapid shifts in construction – how the ancient supercrop Hemp can help build low carbon homes
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There is now a huge opportunity to scale up this kind of building, while also bringing a decent living to farmers from a crop that is environmentally sustainable to grow.
Badvertising – is changing the advertising industry the next step in speeding transition?
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
There are new calls to apply the lessons learned from the successful campaign to end tobacco advertising to ‘high carbon’ products and lifestyles, and to ‘stop adverts fuelling the climate emergency‘.
The Big Rebuild: One-Week Zero-Carbon Home Makeovers and Setting New Comfort Levels
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The incorporation of Fanger’s equations into building codes to create a set-point for comfort not only locks in assumptions that only apply to a male, suited minority, but also a level of energy use and hence carbon emissions which, in aggregate, contribute to the climate emergency.
The Great Staycation – How the Coronavirus Pandemic Could Push a Rapid Transition to Creative Domestic Holidays
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The reduction in travel during the pandemic and people’s willingness to find simple pleasures closer to home bode well for the ‘staycation’ – holidaying at home or in the home country – and for reducing carbon emissions.
How Does your City Grow? Lockdown Illuminates Urban Farming and Gardening’s Potential
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
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 gardeners and would-be farmers overnight.