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.
Educating Girls is More Effective in the Climate Emergency than many Green Technologies
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Access to education is a basic human right, yet across the world, girls continue to face multiple barriers based on their gender and its intersections with other factors such as age, ethnicity, poverty and disability. However research shows that for each intake of students, educating girls has multiple benefits that go far beyond the individual and any particular society.
When behaviour changes overnight – from stay-at-home, to smoke free air and switching sides of the road
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
How quickly, in peacetime democracies, are people prepared radically to change their behaviour? The Covid-19 pandemic provides some clues. One of the most common measures introduced to control its spread has been the ‘stay at home’ order. Normally known as ‘lockdown’ ... To an extraordinary degree, people have complied, and this is not the first time populations have accepted and adapted to suddenly introduced behaviour changes.
Unnecessary Travel? The Return of Breathable Air and Rethinking Transport in a Crisis
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
This shock to the transport system has come as a result of a global pandemic, despite consistent and increasingly urgent calls for change in the face of climate change. It took a more immediate public health threat to give governments the power to declare national emergencies and to restrict movement and other individual freedoms.
Converting Industry – How Rapid Transition Happens in Crises and Upheavals
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
It is worth noting that globally, some 11 million people are already employed in the low carbon and renewables sector, but the numbers of people and resources currently focused on fossil fuel industries and their dependent products and services remain vast.
Pandemic Lessons for the Climate Emergency
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Pandemics change business-as-usual overnight. Governments mobilise huge resources to tackle the problem and compensate for its impacts. At the same time, people depend on the civil and public domains for advice, protection, health services and the whole infrastructure of response.
Share The Great Switch – Lessons from when 14 Million Homes and Businesses Changed Fuel in Less than a Decade
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Between 1970 and 2018, the UK population rose from 56m to 66m, but both total energy use and carbon emissions fell in this same period. This was because coal – the most carbon-intensive of the fossil fuels – was nearly eliminated, cleaner natural gas consumption rose slightly and then fell, and oil consumption stayed the same, as the growing area of transport remained oil-dependent.