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HOW WE CAN TURN CLIMATE CHANGE INTO A CHANCE FOR A BETTER LIFE

We tend to see climate change as an overwhelmingly daunting threat requiring impossible sacrifices. But it's time to rethink say a range of notable experts brought together by nef and the Open University - who share a conviction that living well need not cost the earth.

Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth is available from Amazon and all good bookshops

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	2012 Olympics will break 'legacy' promise unless rules are changed quickly 21/04/08 A new nef report, Fool’s Gold, shows that unless cast-iron guarantees are built into plans for the 2012 Olympics, the Games will fail to leave the promised positive local legacy for the poorest residents of East London.


	Green ideas for the Chancellor's red box 11/03/08 As Alistair Darling puts the finishing touches to his Budget statement, writing for the BBC's Green Room, nef policy director, Andrew Simms says that the UK's chancellor should be thinking in terms of an envrionmental war economy.


	nef briefing outlines unintended consequences of efficiency drive Public sector efficiency savings targets set by Sir Peter Gershon in 2004 are set to be not only met, but exceeded next month, but nef analysis shows the unintended consequence of the government's drive is the erosion of local public services

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	27.05.08 nef at the Hay Festival 2008: Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? nef policy director, Andrew Simms, in conversation with Tom Hodgkinson, editor of The Idler, and big issue founder, John Bird, about the art of living lightly.

	31.05.08 nef at the Hay Festival 2008 nef executive director, Stewart Wallis in conversation with Oliver James, author of The Selfish Capitalist

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