A Coming Cultural Suffolk High Tide
Our Heritage 2040 Article Ten: Culture provides one route for revitalisation and levelling-up.
How can cities govern and benefit from digital technologies in the global urban age?
This publication, a result of a collaboration between Demos Helsinki and the four biggest cities of Finland: Espoo, Helsinki, Tampere, and Vantaa, proposes a new way to manage cities based on the principle of 'active citizenship and ecosystem leadership'.
Seven lessons from seven cities
Sizewell Community Working Group member, Derek Wyatt was an interviewee for The Future of Scotland series. These 'Seven lessons from seven cities' are a great read and suggest how communities, policymakers and business can make the most of the century's biggest trends and navigate the uncharted territory on which we find ourselves.
"I love renewables but I’m also pro-arithmetic"
This TEDx talk from physicist David Mackay is also well worth a watch. How do we wean Britain off its (current) 90% dependency on fossil fuels if we are serious about the shift to a Net Zero future? Many of the options, as Mackay argues, come with a lot of baggage. The answer lies with addressing both supply - and demand-side issues – changing our consumption habits; being more thoughtful about our energy usage; and finding friendly states with whom we can collaborate.
Time for Change?
How realistic is the ambition of delivering a Net Zero carbon economy by 2050, 2040 or 2035? How reliable are the experts – and the data on which they rely? Is the government’s ambition meaningful – or simply part of a long-standing political narrative, which says all the right things but does not lead to effective, sustainable change. This article in The Guardian is well worth a read.
The Future is Slow
Our Heritage 2040 Article Nine: Slow food, tourism, agriculture, fishing. But maybe faster buses and the odd train.
East Anglia and the hydrogen vanguard
Our Heritage 2040 Article Eight: Long the poor relation when it comes to energy alternatives, Hydrogen’s case is gaining momentum.
East Anglia - leading the way for Clean Growth
Our Heritage 2040 Article Seven: What we can expect to have happened to power generation in UK by 2040. What it will take to accelerate towards a Net Zero Carbon future.
"We're not in a clean energy revolution; we're in a clean energy crisis"
Michael Shellenberger explains why it's time to overcome longstanding fears of the technology, and why he and other environmentalists believe it's past time to embrace nuclear as a viable and desirable source of clean power.
The Imaginative State
Back in early April, we could not have predicted the appetite, enthusiasm or thirst for change - to build back better…
The Interim report, explores the key challenges in the evolving relationship between business and democracy. Download a copy of the report here.