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Has the climate debate stalled? Does extreme weather in the UK mean we’re talking about it more or less? When’s a good time to try to make the connections between climate change and floods? And is there anything Inner Transition has to offer to the questions about how

COIN, the Climate Outreach and Information Network, recently published a great report called After the floods: communicating climate change around extreme weather, which set out to explore our “complex attitudes to climate change and extreme weather events”.  Why do extreme weather events not necessarily mean that people “get” climate change?

Stand by your newsstands!  May 1st sees the relaunch of Transition Free Press following its successful pilot which produced four very popular and high quality papers.  The relaunch also represents  a shift in emphasis for the paper.  I spoke to Alexis Rowell, TFP’s Managing Editor, who told me that

Those of us living and transitioning in the Upper Midwest of the United States have experienced climate change as “global weirding.”  In Minnesota, summers have gotten hotter and  more humid while formerly predictable summer rains have become nearly non-existent. When a single rain barrel once would suffice to water