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Transport

Our transport urgently needs to become carbon-neutral and much more energy efficient

The plan here is to distinguish between the details which only Christians are interested in, and focus mainly on the Christian faith from the perspective of Jesus, using only language which makes sense to people outside the church.

Resources: Westar Institute

Westar Institute is dedicated to fostering and communicating the results of cutting-edge scholarship on the history and evolution of the Christian tradition, thereby raising the level of public discourse about questions that matter in society and cul

Conspiracy Theories

A conspiracy theory is (in principle, at least) an interesting creature: a theory about a specific conspiracy - generally, seeking to explain certain events as being the result of a conspiracy. So when we talk in public about a conspiracy theory, we

Gender Equality

Seeking to break this massive area into manageable chunks.

Sex & Sexuality

Sex & Sexuality is, for many people, a very difficult area to talk about: if we can agree even a framework in which conversations can be held, this could be seen as a considerable achievement.

Water

As climate change melts glaciers and alters rainfall patterns, we are seeing droughts and floods affecting ever more people - which means that even more ecosystems are being disrupted, with consequences we cannot predict.

What Makes the World Worse?

We would like the world to become a better place but, all too often, we find that it has become a worse place instead. The big question is: why?

Social Challenges: Difficult Equality Issues

These are the issues which are not in the official equalities list, some of which arise naturally from the official issues, and some of which occupy similar territory.

Social Challenges: Easy Equality Issues

We are calling these issues 'easy' simply because everybody (more or less) recognizes them and agrees they are issues which need to be tackled if we are to build a more just society.

Resources: politics.co.uk

A website which offers a free-to-access digital magazine for UK politics, with both news and comment. It aims to be politically impartial and with no editorial agenda.

Politics: Some Underlying Issues

I think the underlying reality of our political battles is often much more nuanced than we generally recognise. You can't simply put people on a left-right axis, as if there was only one political choice we make: there are numerous issues we constan

Social Challenges: Politics

Many people seem to look down on politics, but it is the only tool we have for reshaping society.

Plastic

Pieces of plastic - everything from whole plastic objects to microscopic sized fragments - have been found in every place on Earth.

Physical Challenges: The Biosphere

The major challenges within the biosphere include loss of biodiversity, mass extinction, species migration, antibiotic resistance and loss of topsoil.

Nuclear Fission

Fission is a very controversial topic: some people think some use of nuclear fission will be essential to plug the hole left by fossil fuels before we manage to scale up renewable energy; others think the costs and the problem of disposal of nuclear

Batteries

Storing electricity is one of the massive challenges we face. There are many projects working on alternatives to our familiar Lithium Ion batteries.

Energy

This is the fundamental practical challenge facing the human race: our civilization depends upon using vast amounts of energy; the way we use energy is changing the climate and destroying the ecosystem which our survival depends upon; and we would ha

Brain Tricks

I think it would be helpful to collect together the mistakes our brains are prone to make.

For a start, here is an excellent short (8 minutes 25 seconds) video about 'The Illusion of Truth': talking about cognitive ease, why it is useful, and how it

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