Publications
The latest update about the New Optimists and the New Optimists Forum:
- TNO_November_2013 (scroll down for earlier ones)
The Birmingham 2050 Scenarios Report, published in June 2013, is here.
It has four parts, each of which was published separately from March through June 2013:
- What’s past is prologue_Birmingham 2050
- One touch of nature_The value of urban agriculture
- The readiness is all_What it takes to feed the city
- Action is eloquence_How will Birmingham be powered in 2050?
Our books for sale on Amazon are:
- Kindle book: The New Optimists: Challenging Cancer. You can read more about it here.
- The hardcopy book The New Optimists: Scientists View Tomorrow’s World & What It Means To Us was published in 2010. You can read a glowing review in The House, Parliament’s weekly, here.
Also:
- NewOptimists_Response_Plan 2031-BirminghamDevelopmentPlan (Our response to the draft Birmingham Plan 2031, submitted on 13 January 2013.)
- TNO_Response2GivingHopeChangingLives. (A response by Kate Cooper to the Birmingham Social Inclusion Process Green Paper, November 2012.)
- NewOptimists_Response_Places4TheFuture_SPDDoc by Kate Cooper and Matthew Green, March 2012. (This is a response to Birmingham City Council’s draft Supplementary Planning Document.)
- They Moved Like Fish-Response by KateCooper (My response to Peter Latchford’s draft report on the riots in Birmingham in the summer 2011)
- Small worlds & the strength of weak ties
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- Neat images and diagrams we publish from time to time:
An amended Heinz baked bean tin label to illustrate the sheer volume of food it takes to feed a city
A_FoodFuture4Birmingham2050; external factors that will impact Birmingham
- Ellie Richards’ Analyses
Pathways to Feast and Pathways to Famine (February 2012 New Optimists Forum on food poverty/food deserts)
Analysis_Forum2ndNov2011_EllieRichards (November 2011 New Optimists Forum)
- Nicci MacLeod’s linguistic analyses
NicciMacLeod_Report_May2012
- Other analyses
Summary-FactorAnalysis_23rdMay2012
Factor_Analysis-May2012
- Compilations of blogposts on specific topics
Draft_Agroecology & urban farming (to March 2012)
- Earlier updates about the Forum
- TNOForumSummary_July_2013
- TNOForumSummary_March_2013
- TNOForumSummary_January_2013
- TNOForumSummary_November2012
TNOForumSummary_Sept2012
TNOForumSummary_July2012
TNOForumSummary_June2012
TNOForumSummary_April2012
- Forum newsletters
NewOptimistsForum-April2012
NewOptimistsForum-February2012