Posts in DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION
The Humanity Project has 70+ popular assemblies set up in the UK—communities acting in the face of our climate extremes
Alternative Editorial: We Simply Can't Imagine
Vive is a new social platform for communities signing up to a "transition" worldview and practice
Alternative Editorial: Be Careful What You Wish For
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTUREpat kanescotland, fractal, ecocivilisation, democracy, deliberation, cosmolocalism
Alternative Editorial: The Whole Territory
Should philanthropy become political? It depends whether the aim is ideological, or a richer, more deliberative form of democracy itself
"Privacy first! Then - everything else!" Cory Doctorow's suggestion for curing so many of the current internet's ills
Federalists, communitarians, mayoralists - three tribes of thinking about where the locus of power should be in the UK
If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work
Every nuance of AI, awe and charisma anatomised, clean aircraft and hydrogen cells. Noema’s top ten 2023 stories are a ride
Alternative Editorial: Understanding Our Choices
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kanechoice, conflict, binary, psychology, human givens, war, peace
As the “HSBC 9” eco-protesters are acquitted of criminality, an eloquent open letter explains their actions
ACTION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneExtinction Rebellion, activism, climate activism, green protest, protest
Alternative Editorial: Busy Being Born
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, MASCULINE, POLITICAL CULTURE, YES WE CANpat kanenatality, innovation, political culture, new politics, hannah arendt
Cosmolocalism imagined in graphics, and as a route to putting "nature rights" at the heart of the Irish constitution
Scottish land policy gets the Dark Matter Labs treatment: Crofting 2.0, Layered Commoning and the Land Relationships Register
The UK's score on reported "democratic wellbeing" is extremely low, says Carnegie Trust. We have answers for that...
Alternative Editorial: We Have To Build The Alternative To War
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, violence, architecture, citizens assembly, democracy, peace, agency, participation
Barking and Dagenham Giving are putting the decisions for social enterprise investment into the hands of residents
In Sesotho, "fito" means “joining diverse pieces to make one powerful effort”. Fito Networks in South Africa aims at exactly that
Alternative Editorial: Shifting Power
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, FEMININE, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, Israel, Gaza, middle east, conflict transformation, feminine, femmeq, power