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
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
"Evil Does Not Exist" is a powerful Japanese eco-drama about one community’s fight against intrusive land development
We know what "corporate veganism" is - greenwash for the same old brutal food giants. But what if they faced a socialist veganism?
The "15 minute city" is toxic here - but in 50 other cities, they're removing "masculine desires" from urban planning
Generation Z is veering away from alcohol and drunkenness. Cost, precarity and an acute sense of the demands of the future seem key
ACTION, YOUTH, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INDIVIDUAL, FUTURES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kanealcohol, alcoholism, drinking, food, gen z
We need to think of "technics", rather than technology, said Bernard Stiegler - showing how they harm or heal us as humans
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
From "cowboy" economy to "spaceman" economy, and nine other essential papers that founded ecological economics
Alternative Editorial: The Dream Of Ecocivilisation
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PLANET A, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kaneecocivilisation, regeneration, RegenA, Planet A, china, ecological civilisation, social imaginary
To avoid the “wellness-industrial complex”, we must value our soul as a pathway to purpose and service, writes Mark Vernon
From Here To Ecocivilisation: a Connectathon conversation with Violeta Bulc, Uffe Elbæk, Indra Adnan & Pat Kane, and Jeremy Lent
Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
In Scotland, the circular economy is more than an occasion for eco-virtue. It’s ingenious and fun too
REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LOCALISM, 4TH SECTOR, YES WE CANpat kanecircular economy, green economics, recycling, upcycling, Edinburgh, Glasgow