Heat networks judicial review challenge

Heat networks should reduce costs and climate impacts. But private interests and lack of regulation has resulted in exorbitant bills and poor service. In the Ecologist

Megacities make progress on free public transport schemes

In Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam and Tehran, Iran – which both have around 10 million people, more than London – people are shifting, in numbers, from private vehicles to buses and the metro, thanks to universal zero-fares buses. Partial schemes in Jakarta, Indonesia, and in Australia and India, are also bringing results. On Labour Hub

Marxism, Russian imperialism and social forces

 A response to Alex Callinicos, on the Links web site. I question an approach to the war in Ukraine that dissolves the particular into the general, and fails to deal with the social dynamics, in either Russia or Ukraine, in the period under discussion.

The local power plan risks blocking community energy potential

 The Plan will fail to boost community renewable energy projects, if regulatory and market obstructions are not swept away, campaigners say. An obsessively centralised system of regulation, and the energy corporations’ power, are blocking change. Even modest proposals to support community energy projects with a long-term, fixed price for their electricity fall on deaf ears.