New paper on renewable energy
What can be done to increase the share of electricity generated by renewable energy installations? Read this policy briefing from Jonathan Moss: …
Author: Schumacher Institute
Research papers available
Our latest set of papers from our fellow, interns and volunteers are now published here. A good example is an essay on the German energy transition and climate change: ‘Germany – Climate change hero or hypocrite?’ by Jonathan Moss.…
Cafe System Change
Announcing a lighter companion to our System Change journal. Please see the first copy :…
10th Anniversary Impact Appeal
We already provide free, online resources through our Systems Learning website and our open access journal System Change.
To improve our impact please read our – thank you.…
May 24th – Our 10th anniversary conference
From systemic failure to a transition of civilization
Thursday, May 24th, 2018, 10.00 – 16.30, Watershed 3, Bristol
“Come and celebrate our 10th anniversary with a day of thinking about a positive future”
Dr Nafeez Ahmed will give a keynote…
Potential use of planetary boundary thinking in the UK
The planetary boundary (PB) concept is based on a set of nine boundaries for critical processes that regulate the functioning of the earth’s ecosystems at a global level. The concept posits that crossing these boundaries takes us into ‘zones of…
Accelerating Transition to a Zero Carbon Future
Fred Barker, one of our Senior Research Fellows, is publishing this discussion paper on the necessary transition to a Zero Carbon world and how Zero West may accelerate those trends. “One of the purposes of Zero West could be to…