Shine On: Solar Power is Eclipsing Coal, Oil, Gas and Nuclear Energy with Rapid Growth and Cost Reductions
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Ever since 2013, the installation of new renewable energy capacity has outstripped all other major energy generating sources combined, coal, oil, gas and nuclear. There are impressive figures for all renewables but the growth and fall in costs of solar power has stunned even seasoned industry observers.
Future Homes: The Rapid Rise, Fall, and Return of UK Social Housing
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The pioneering Dutch “Energiesprong” model – Dutch for “energy leap” – involves a major, whole-house retrofit to achieve a near net-zero energy home, typically including the fitting of an external “wall envelope” for insulation, as well as rooftop solar panels.
Pedal Power: The Cycling Revolution Cleaning our Air, Clearing Congestion, Tackling Climate Breakdown and Improving Health
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Car use may have risen enormously in the last 30 years in most countries, but some places have managed to get people out of motorised transport and on their bikes in huge numbers, reducing carbon emissions and increasing health and wellbeing.
Growing our Way out of Crisis: How to Dig for Victory
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
In the UK, the phenomenon of growing vegetables on an allotment – a piece of community land shared between a number of individuals – is part of the national landscape, bringing pleasure and fresh homegrown vegetables to households without large gardens.
All Aboard the Electric Bus – Modern Public Transport Powered by Electricity is Coming Back
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
The rapid uptake of electric buses is occurring in cities around the world, with Bloomberg predicting that by 2030, 84% of global municipal bus sales will be electric.
The Wild Way to Rapid Transition – How Rewilding can Slow Climate Breakdown, Protect from its Worst Effects and Improve Biodiversity
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Rewilding demands a cultural shift and this will be closely related to the shift needed for rapid transition in other areas. Sharing space with messy, complex nature and predators with large teeth is something to which we can and must adapt.
From Oil Crisis to Energy Revolution – How Nations Once Before Planned to Kick the Oil Habit
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
As the world now gets to grips with the realities of making a rapid transition away from fossil fuels in the next decade, is it time to look again at how quickly we moved back in the 1970s, when we had to?
New Money Meets the Cost of Change: How Local Currencies Save Economies and Communities, and Help them Flourish
By Rapid Transition Alliance Staff, Rapid Transition Alliance
Of course the economic crisis was fundamental to the evolution of alternative economics in Greece. Although some thinkers have long advocated other ways of using and running currencies, most barter systems arise in times of upheaval where trust in the banks is eroded or they withdraw liquidity.