by localisewm | Jan 21, 2020 | Environment, Low carbon, News, Reports, Sustainability, Transition
So you’ve declared a Climate Emergency. Now what? Now you need to make a plan, set targets, decide your priorities, work out a budget… you need to make clear what needs to change, by when and who is going to do it. Because words like ‘emergency’ and ‘crisis’ mean we...
by localisewm | Jul 14, 2016 | Economy, Export-led growth, Globalisation, Import substitution, Local economies, Localisation, Reports, Transition
Last year came three reports on the downturn in global trade: From the container industry: Søren Skou, chief executive of the Maersk Line, which carries goods and products between Asia, Europe, the US, Africa and Latin America and is now described as the only...
by localisewm | Feb 27, 2015 | City council, Co-operatives, Economics, Employee ownership, Local economies, Local government, Manufacturing, Mutuals, Outsourcing, Planning, Procurement, Reports, Transition
New Start magazine, which champions urban regeneration that is inclusive, sustainable and socially just, has reported on the work of CLES (Centre for Local Economic Strategies) with Preston City Council. Innovative Quinton councillor John Clancy, who has been to...
by localisewm | Oct 29, 2013 | Democracy, Finance, Government, Legal action, Planning, Politics, Protest, Reports, Social Enterprise
Lord Norton, Professor of Government in the Department of Politics and International Studies, thinks that this bill will not “correct the mischief that has motivated its introduction”. Baroness Ann Mallalieu, a member of the Commission on Civil Society and Democratic...
by localisewm | Jan 21, 2013 | Economy, Employment, Energy, Environment, Finance, Green New Deal, Low carbon, Planning, Politics, Reports
. Compass, an ideas and action based pressure group, is discussing alternatives to the Government’s economic ‘Plan A’, which isn’t working, with over 50,000 members and supporters around the country. Its original Plan B, one page summary here,...
by localisewm | Jun 26, 2012 | Food, Local economies, Localisation, Reports, Transition
From field to fork: The value of England’s local food webs, a report by the Campaign for the Protection of Rural England was released earlier this month. Farming Online reports that it indicts government food policy and the supermarket model, revealing the role both...
