• Sections

  • 1. Foreword
  • 2. Roger Levett
    • 2.1 Mary and Julia: morning
    • 2.2 Mary and Julia: afternoon
    • 2.3 Mary and Julia: evening
    • 2.4 A different way of life?
    • 2.5 Where's the catch?
    • 2.6 A different economy
    • 2.7 A different society
  • 3. Simon Slater
    • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.2 Rule 1
    • 3.3 Rule 2
    • 3.4 Rule 3
    • 3.5 Rule 4
    • 3.6 Rule 5
    • 3.7 Rule 6
    • 3.8 Final words
  • 4. Darren Gardner
    • 4.1 Introduction
    • 4.2 The high carbon economy
    • 4.3 The low carbon economy
    • 4.4 Social enterprise
    • 4.5 The model
    • 4.6 Final thoughts
  • 5. John O'Connor
    • 5.1 Introduction
    • 5.2 Question 1
    • 5.3 Question 2
    • 5.4 Question 3
    • 5.5 Question 4
    • 5.6 Question 5
    • 5.7 Question 6
    • 5.8 Question 7
  • 6. Tony McNally and Krystyna Tarkowski
    • 6.1 The challenge
    • 6.2 The low carbon transition
    • 6.3 Clear opportunities
    • 6.4 Leadership and partnership
    • 6.5 An invitation

What would a successful low carbon economy look like?

How should the West Midlands transform its economy to meet that vision?

Roger Levett

Low carbon living for the West Midlands

Simon Slater

Dreaming of a low carbon West Midlands – or the low carbon revolutionary handbook

Darren Gardner

The low carbon economy: transformation is here and now

John O'Connor

Low carbon vehicles

Tony McNally and Krystyna Tarkowski

Leadership to deliver the West Midlands low carbon future

• About this site

  In 2009, we published West Midlands: Fit for the Future?, a collection of ten articles by ten different authors. The authors gave their vision of how the West Midlands could best position itself for economic recovery.

  This year we're asking ‘what would a successful low carbon economy look like?’ The articles on this site are responses from contributors working in business, local government, education and the voluntary sector.

  Please comment on the articles and debate the ideas.

• What will happen to your comments?

  We welcome all comments. The aim is to feed comments into our State of the West Midlands research. Comments will be read and moderated by the West Midlands Regional Observatory's communications team.

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