Thanks to Trades Union Congress for this compilation - people have always reckoned that others are workshy. (Tip, if you can't find enough workers, raise wages, or mechanise. There is no third option). 1/2

Great to see this issue getting the attention it needs at the moment.

BUT

140k is just in England. The number for Britain is (incredibly) even higher.

Great to see this new addition to the @wikihouse website, illustrating what can be done with the system (as well as giving you the tools to do so) and their impact. Very good!

This is the start of us open sourcing and sharing all of the work over the last 18 months, as we pivot out of re-founding, focus on deep demonstration, and reignite a part of the work that had to pause during COVID-19, the ambitious co-building of the Neighbourhood Public Square.…

Alastair Parvin Funny, that. Nearby, a volume developer is building 500 homes with 30% affordable, a chunk of which will go to the local CLT along with new green space and community amenities, paid for by the council & CLT capturing a bigger share of the land value uplift.

For ‘viable’ read ‘profitable’

and for ‘farmland’ read ‘land that was previously worth a few £k hectare as farmland but has since been traded-up by land speculators, capturing £m/hectare so now there’s no money left for community infrastructure or affordable tenure homes’

Here's something we've been working hard on: Future Observatory Journal launches today. A biannual, online journal for design, ecology and a future. Issue #1 is Bioregioning. Have a read: fojournal.org

97% of money was created by commercial banks as loans, mostly to buy existing assets like land.

The result is a vicious feedback loop of ever-rising land prices and ever-increasing mortgages, trapping Canadians in lifetimes of crushing debt. Land value tax is a circuit breaker.

This really is quite a chart

How can London tackle the scale of the carbon challenge?

In partnership with The London Society, we're proud to host this year’s Banister Fletcher Lecture with Indy Johar, architect + co-founder Dark Matter Labs.

📅 24 April
📍 RIBA, London
🎟️ ow.ly/tHjV50QXRqb

'Leave fossil fuels in the ground. It's so simple.This is the most important predicament humanity has ever faced and by design as a result of the enormous oppressive power of the fossil fuel industry, we're flunking it.' George Monbiot.

No time to waste. #ActOnClimate

Once again, Rory Sutherland doing the Lord’s work.