The new First Minster in Scotland faces a crossroads on “green vs. growth” economics. But what’s happening at street-level could be an education
What are “the neighbourhood fundamentals” that can help us adapt to a 3-degrees climate warming? Best to be prepared…
Rekindle, Reclaim, Roots... From her Manchester base, Ruth Ibegbuna aims to bridge class, social and cultural divides in the UK
YES WE CAN, YOUTH, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, MANIFESTOS, LAB FOCUS, INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, LEARNINGpat kaneschools, supplementary schools, manchester, london, Glasgow
The college, the workshop, the lending circle, the artists' guild... from Rome to Siberia and beyond, a short history of cooperation and mutuality
“I don't know any other way to pull myself together”. A photographer commits to show everyday Moscow, under propaganda
“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
The "Lebensmittepunkte" - or Berlin's Food Hubs - are a perfect and sustainable fit for the idea of the fifteen-minute city
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
Alternative Editorial: A Month In The Life of Edinburgh
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The "15 minute city" is toxic here - but in 50 other cities, they're removing "masculine desires" from urban planning
Transition Tooting is going to make their locality into a "Town Anywhere" - capable of imagining, and realising, positive futures
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The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK
“Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big
Another Spring theme - how strong, cosmolocal communities can build a parallel polis - echoed by Adam Greenfield's concept of "lifehouses"
The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform
The modern commune brings together childcare and eldercare, women from 58 to 94, business and pleasure
A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie
WeRobotics and Flying Labs want to put African communities in charge of drones and the data they produce
Alternative Editorial: A Socio-Politics For Our Times
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, SOCIO-POLITICS, YES WE CANpat kaneI-WE-WORLD, socio-politics, individuals, community action network, narrative, hope
If water is scarce where you are, then long-term thinking is preferred. New research on the link between ecology and culture