“I don't know any other way to pull myself together”. A photographer commits to show everyday Moscow, under propaganda
“People used to be born into communities, then found their individuality. Today people are born individuals, then find their communities.” Here comes the Post-Individual
The "Lebensmittepunkte" - or Berlin's Food Hubs - are a perfect and sustainable fit for the idea of the fifteen-minute city
The “Earthrise” picture from the Apollo missions, and the Church Forests of Ethiopia, both “extend the circle of ourselves to nature”
YES WE CAN, SPRING, PRACTICE, PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, COMMUNITYpat kaneethiopia, church, eden, space flight, earth
Alternative Editorial: A Month In The Life of Edinburgh
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, PLANET Apat kaneNew politics, Bayo Akomolafe, Integral, transformation, comolocalism
The "15 minute city" is toxic here - but in 50 other cities, they're removing "masculine desires" from urban planning
Transition Tooting is going to make their locality into a "Town Anywhere" - capable of imagining, and realising, positive futures
FUTURES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, LOCALISM, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, COMMUNITY, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOURpat kanetransition towns, transition network, transition tooting, tooting
The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK
“Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big
Another Spring theme - how strong, cosmolocal communities can build a parallel polis - echoed by Adam Greenfield's concept of "lifehouses"
The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform
The modern commune brings together childcare and eldercare, women from 58 to 94, business and pleasure
A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie
WeRobotics and Flying Labs want to put African communities in charge of drones and the data they produce
Alternative Editorial: A Socio-Politics For Our Times
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIO-POLITICS, YES WE CANpat kaneI-WE-WORLD, socio-politics, individuals, community action network, narrative, hope
If water is scarce where you are, then long-term thinking is preferred. New research on the link between ecology and culture
“I am a window of opportunity”: Plymouth’s innovative social enterprise sector comes up with Vacancy Atlas, redefining the high street
"Tech for Today - and for Tomorrow" makes a resounding case that community tech can drive change in Britain
“San Francisco was the left edge of America, a refuge from its conformities, a sanctuary for misfits, a lab for new ideas”. And now, says Rebecca Solnit…
"Don't Fight", "Don't Win", "Don't Surrender". The mottos of the independent Republic of Užupis, made by artists in Lithuania's capital Vilnius