Write a letter to future generations. Or imagine how your region will be. But doom-&-gloom messaging about climate change just doesn't work
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Rekindle, Reclaim, Roots... From her Manchester base, Ruth Ibegbuna aims to bridge class, social and cultural divides in the UK
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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
An “integral journalism” would expose people to more complex information, healthier discourse, and inspiration for transformation
Generation Z is veering away from alcohol and drunkenness. Cost, precarity and an acute sense of the demands of the future seem key
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To avoid the “wellness-industrial complex”, we must value our soul as a pathway to purpose and service, writes Mark Vernon
Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
“We are a family of cells making sense of laughter, a watery collection of tireless vitality.” Learn about “queer ecology”, in a new Advaya course
With K-Pop giants SEVENTEEN headlining Glastonbury, South Korea’s long-term soft power strategy is truly paying off
With the latest and coming wave of neurotech devices, the truth is that your brain may need a lawyer
To respond properly to climate crisis, says Steffi Bednarek, you have to wrangle your “internal family” - the manager, the exile, the firefighter
“Less mechanisation in life! Resist the machine apocalypse!” We’re pretty techno-optimist here, but these are powerful voices against
Alternative Editorial: A Socio-Politics For Our Times
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Consciously replace your deep metaphors - for example, “argument is a war” with “argument is a dance” - and the reality before you changes
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"Trans people literally built the internet, as queer and trans people have been ardent technologists since the beginning"
Defying norms of beauty or flourishing, body appreciation is a powerful route to sustained wellbeing
After half-a-century, Cindy Sherman is still photographing herself, showing how media (and now AI) splinters our identity
What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine