Hard work, happy accidents, the pleasures of ritual: why, in a digitally-saturated age, we still love “analogue” tech
The college, the workshop, the lending circle, the artists' guild... from Rome to Siberia and beyond, a short history of cooperation and mutuality
We must see our current wars, and our impending climate meltdown, as inextricably linked. Rachel Donald talks to Olivia Lazard
“I don't know any other way to pull myself together”. A photographer commits to show everyday Moscow, under propaganda
Alternative Editorial: Becoming Independent
A/UK EDITORIAL, ACTION, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, OLDER GENS, PLANET A, SHAPE THE SYSTEM, YES WE CANpat kanemetamorphosis, X, GEN X Y Z, RegenA, Democracy
It's a beautiful game. But even more beautiful when it provides a path towards self-mastery for homeless people, as a new movie shows
“The magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.” Natality lessons from D.H. Lawrence
“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
“Tired of the hustle… wanna hear the leaves rustle”. And other advertising strategies for the ultimate client, devised by The Agency for Nature
From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
There is a growing “University of Movements”—where what is learned comes from activism and the construction of alternatives
The "Lebensmittepunkte" - or Berlin's Food Hubs - are a perfect and sustainable fit for the idea of the fifteen-minute city
Alternative Editorial: Resist The Devil We Know
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, NEW ECONOMICS, PARTY POLITICS, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanesocio-politics, new paradigm, new politics, cosmolocal, social capital, the craic, personal political
Older women and children celebrate a landmark human-rights ruling on governments’ responsibility for climate worsening
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
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
An “integral journalism” would expose people to more complex information, healthier discourse, and inspiration for transformation
Rob Hopkins’ Ministry of Imagination has produced a manifesto of what-if policies - from the most starry-eyed to the costed and practical
BIG PICTURE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, INGENUITY, MANIFESTOS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGY, YES WE CANpat kaneimagination, rob hopkins, transition network
The public needs input, and consensus, on how they should shape AI in their lives. Belgium’s Citizen Panel on AI promises much
Considering the Fens of Cambridgeshire, their eventual reflooding, and what resistance that could provoke, from Greg Frey