Reasons to be Cheerful with Ed Miliband & Geoff Lloyd
News:Politics
Hello! We got out of Geoff's loft and onto Parliament Square to join the many thousands of young people worldwide protesting about climate change and we also talk about what could be a big part of the answer: A Green New Deal (GND). We explain what it is and how it seeks to put economic and social justice at the heart of the fight against climate change with Ann Pettifor, one of the originators of the idea more than ten years ago and Zack Exley, US Co-Founder of Justice Democrats that supported Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who has put the GND on the map in the US,
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Comedian Olga Koch is rebranding cooperation tax, applying the impartiality of football referees to combat fake news and incentivising voting with prizes.
ACT NOW: Recognising British Sign Language in the UK
WARM HOMES FOR ALL: Tackling Britain's fuel poverty crisis
ANXIETY AND AGENCY: How to respond to eco-anxiety in the face of climate change
MAGISTRATES: the volunteers presiding over criminal courts
MAGIC ROUNDABOUT: why we need the circular economy
JON RONSON :The author, journalist and documentary maker talks to Ed and Geoff about his new series ‘Things Fell Apart’
DOT THE “I”S AND CROSS THE NFTs: the Wild West of crypto or an opportunity for change
BACK TO NATURE: tackling the biodiversity and climate crises
JACK FOR GOOD: Rewriting the script on disability with Jack Thorne
THE REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL 2021 TOP TEN
WE WISH YOU A-M-A* XMAS 2021 (*Ask Me Anything with Ed and Geoff)
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Four - The fight for a minimum wage
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Three - The Fight For Race Equality in the UK
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: Part Two - Building Nordic gender equality
FIRST THEY IGNORE YOU: part one—- the creation of the NHS
217. ONE STOP COP (26) SHOP: the verdict
216. YOUR ONE-STOP COP(26): One week in
215. FOLLOW THE (CITY) LEADER: the power of local action on the climate crisis
214. PALACES FOR THE PEOPLE: the future of public libraries
213. WOULDN’T IT BE NICE IF WE WERE OLDER: creating age-friendly communities
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