“The path to explaining that new energy infrastructure needs to be built is through the experience of energy inflation.” 

Green planning can deliver fairer, more secure decarbonization by overcoming the failures of market coordination. 

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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

“Moving toward decarbonization will be a matter of tremendous economic decision making. New industries, new factories, new infrastructure.”

Governments must look beyond the market to address era-defining crises.

Find out more 👇

www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...

“One of the things most problematic about using the market to coordinate is that oftentimes it's only looking at the immediate period.”

Moments of crisis fail to build lasting capacity when the response is left to the market.

What's the alternative? 🔗👇
www.common-wealth.org/green-planni...

“It is very easy to forget that society has massively changed in the past, and it can massively change again.”

The dual crises of climate breakdown and the growing unaffordability of essentials require a new approach.

We must plan for our future.

This is how.

🚨 Today, Common Wealth launches the Green Planning Commission.

A major new initiative to tackle the twin crises of our era: climate breakdown & the affordability crisis.

To meet these challenges, we need a new era of democratic planning.

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https://www.common-wealth.org/green-planning-commission

Are side hustles bad for you?

Amelia Horgan spoke to BBC Radio 5 on the problem with side hustles and the reasons we need them in the first place.

We used to build things.

Why did we stop?

It might not be for the reason you think.

Do you ever get the feeling that nothing seems to work anymore?

Bills go up. Services get worse. Basics are luxuries. How did we get here?

🧵 Our new project explores the experiment that transformed Britain.

It’s all down to a radical experiment: privatisation.

Our energy sector used to be in public hands.

But now, it’s owned by asset manager giants. Investment firms. Foreign governments.

There are few countries with an energy sector as deeply privatised as the UK.

Today, the energy price cap set by Ofgem goes up yet again.

¼ of your bill was taken as profit by energy companies in 2024 — an average of £416 per household.

Families are squeezed to pad the pockets of shareholders.

🧵 Here’s how the public has been turned into a cash machine.

“There’s no doubt that without decent bus services you get loneliness & social exclusion, so the impact is quite severe.”

We estimate that since the pandemic, buses in Shropshire alone have been cut by 60%.

Findings from our new project — Who Owns Britain? — on BBC Radio 4 🔈👇

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Every time you board a bus, or catch a train, you’re caught in a web of private ownership.

“Public” transport is not public.

Why does transport cost more while our services get worse?

🧵 Let’s look at the facts. (1/11)