Publications

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.

• The Birmingham 2050 Scenarios Reports
  The readiness is all_What it takes to feed the city
  Action is eloquence_How will Birmingham be powered in 2050? (the potential for distributed waste to energy systems)
  

• The latest update about the Forum (earlier updates below):
  TNOForumSummary_March_2013

• 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_January_2013
  TNOForumSummary_November2012
  TNOForumSummary_Sept2012
  TNOForumSummary_July2012
  TNOForumSummary_June2012
  TNOForumSummary_April2012 

• Forum newsletters
  NewOptimistsForum-April2012
  NewOptimistsForum-February2012

note: More e-titles by New Optimist scientists will follow in the coming months, including one on our genome in action. We will shortly be commissioning an iBook, and an iPad app — more about them in due course.