What is the transformational work, personal and cultural, that's needed to create durable systems change? Not scaling "up", or "out", but scaling DEEP
UN president António Guterres describes an "unhinged" world that cannot "come together to respond". So how do we learn to disagree well?
"Tech for Today - and for Tomorrow" makes a resounding case that community tech can drive change in Britain
"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
The Humanity Project has 70+ popular assemblies set up in the UK—communities acting in the face of our climate extremes
If the UK matched Europe for the amount of social enterprises in the economy, wages, investment and living standards would be higher
It’s good when communities map their assets. But what if this mapping could mutually strengthen separate networks? The Murmurations Protocol can help
Philanthropy that doesn’t ask to you report, or comply, and “gifts” you way more than you asked for... Studying Mackenzie Scott’s YieldGiving
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What is the Fête of Britain? It's a four-day takeover in Manchester, curated by Brian Eno and Es Devlin's new cultural movement, Hard Art
"Just Transformations" shows grassroots movements for alternative futures arising across the planet
Vive is a new social platform for communities signing up to a "transition" worldview and practice
How Ireland’s Nollaig na mBan evolved from a day off housework to a celebration of women’s achievements
FEMININE, YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, INDIVIDUAL, LOCALISMpat kaneireland, christmas, celebration, women, fe ], feminism
“Village Hosts” are collaboration experts who co-create new projects in rural areas - mixing creativity and local knowledge
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
Alternative Editorial: Busy Being Born
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The UN and the WHO begin a three-year global campaign to stress the power of connection - and the health costs of loneliness
YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, PLANETARIANpat kaneunited nations, WHO, loneliness, isolation, social capital, atomisation, health
Cosmolocalism imagined in graphics, and as a route to putting "nature rights" at the heart of the Irish constitution
Can you see like a superorganism? In polarised, antagonistic times, Richard Bartlett shows us how to perceive our “macro-beings”
Barking and Dagenham Giving are putting the decisions for social enterprise investment into the hands of residents