Laurie

Quote: Call for living walls to be installed in polluted schools

I spoke with Sky News about action to reduce air pollution and improve health around schools: https://news.sky.com/story/call-for-living-walls-to-be-installed-in-polluted-schools-11551086

One Earth, the impacts of climate change

Headlines like “We have only twelve years to save the world” appeared across the globe in early October, in the wake of a new report from the United Nations underlining the scale of the challenge posed by climate change. This wasn’t fake news. The world has already warmed by around 1°C since large-scale industrialisation began,Continue reading “One Earth, the impacts of climate change”

Quote: Healthcare bodies demand fresh Clean Air legislation

I spoke with Air Quality News about the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change’s demands for action on air pollution: https://airqualitynews.com/2018/10/29/healthcare-bodies-demand-fresh-clean-air-legislation/

Quote: Top UK health bodies demand new clean air act

I spoke with the Guardian about the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change’s demands for action on air pollution in the UK: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/oct/28/top-uk-health-bodies-demand-new-clean-air-act

Greener hospitals, healthier communities (UK Health Alliance on Climate Change)

15th October 2018 The NHS can drive positive economic, social and environmental outcomes through changing how it employs, procures, and uses land and other assets, as well as how it travels and burns carbon. This potential is particularly high at a local level where hospitals and other healthcare sites act as ‘anchor institutions’ – byContinue reading “Greener hospitals, healthier communities (UK Health Alliance on Climate Change)”

Moving Beyond the Air Quality Crisis (UK Health Alliance on Climate Change)

5th October 2018 This report from the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change explored the causes of the air quality health problem in the UK and provided a comprehensive strategy for overcoming it.

Video: How Do We Democratise Data?

Mathew Lawrence and I talk about our new IPPR report: The Digital Commonwealth: From private enclosure to collective benefit.

Interview: ‘Drive to combat fake news could give tech firms more muscle’

I was interviewed by Sky News about the power of the big digital platforms and what to do about it: https://news.sky.com/story/drive-to-combat-fake-news-could-give-tech-firms-more-muscle-11511880

Quote: Is the future of the economy a doughnut?

I spoke with Ozy about Kate Raworth’s doughnut model: https://www.ozy.com/the-new-and-the-next/is-the-future-of-the-economy-a-doughnut/88546/

Presentation: Paradigms Shifts and Major Economic Institutions

Along with Michael Jacobs and Laurie Macfarlane, I gave a presentation at the OECD on how economic ideas and policies have changed and are changing in major institutions: http://www.oecd.org/naec/10-years-after-the-crisis/M_Jacobs_NAEC_13-Sept_2018.pdf