For those unfamiliar with the concept of a ‘new deal’, it was a policy put in place by Franklin D. Roosevelt after the last big stock market crash in 1929. It basically involves using public programmes to fuel the resurgence of an economy. We’re now trying to do this at the same time as tackling high energy prices and carbon emissions. Of course, unlike the tragic events that transpired during Roosvelt’s time, we also want to avoid a World War.

The reason this site exists in addition to the Green New Deal report is because the ideas in the Green New Deal are quite specific to the UK. The report doesn’t talk much about how the Internet could help create an international response from global citizens connected over the web.

The site will try and present ideas in an accessible way. The Green New Deal team have done a good job of educating people (including me) to the level necessary to understand the economic policies they suggest, but there are clearly a lot of intelligent people who are still getting up-to-speed. Hopefully this site can help people dip into the issues quickly and run with new ideas in their own unique circumstances (geographic location, profession, political orientation, age-group etc).

Principles driving this site include a potentially naive idealism that we can actually come out of this period of crisis in a much better shape than that in which we are entering it. Everything written here is to have a clear constructive point to it, and although it is important to understand where we are now, simply bitching about problems and blaming people is really not going to help anyone.

The site was started by Jamie Andrews but contributions are welcome from anyone who has ideas. If you want something you’ve written to appear as a post, please get in touch.