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How can private finance be a lever for green housing and energy in Belfast?

Report

14 Sep 2021

Riley Thorold Josie Warden

This paper outlines the distinctive local challenges and opportunities for green housing and energy and specifies priority next steps for pursuing this agenda in Belfast.

A stitch in time: realising the value of futures and foresight

Report

23 Oct 2020

Our guide to thinking about the future differently.

Scotland Field Guide for the Future

Report

23 Oct 2019

Stories from people and organisations making real changes on the ground across Scotland and how they're working together to help improve the environment and the public’s health and wellbeing.

A whole school approach to mental health

Report

07 Oct 2018

This research found that providing mental health awareness training for school staff had significant positive effects.

Easier said than done - why we struggle with healthy behaviours and what to do about it

Report

22 Dec 2015

Many of us know what we should be doing to live healthily, yet many of us struggle to actually actively manage our health. This report asks why and what we can do about it.

Report: Money Talks - Divest Invest and the battle for climate realism

Report

03 Dec 2015

Our new climate change report examines the claim that if we want to limit planetary warming to levels deemed acceptable, the beginning of the end of the fossil fuel industry has to be accelerated.

Wired for imprudence

Report

28 May 2015

Natural human characteristics can make it hard to manage our money well. This report identifies six of these behavioural hurdles to financial capability, and explores what this means for financial education.

The Seven Dimensions of Climate Change: Introducing a new way to think, talk, and act

Report

20 Jan 2015

Our report suggests that climate change is not about 'the environment', it's a problem with seven main dimensions: Science, Behaviour, Technology, Culture, Law, Economy and Democracy.

Spiritualise: revitalising spirituality to address 21st century challenges

Report

27 Dec 2014

Whilst spiritual identification is an important part of life for millions of people, it currently lacks credibility in the public domain. This report examines why we need spirituality to meet the challenges of the 21st century.