Posts in DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION
The "Lebensmittepunkte" - or Berlin's Food Hubs - are a perfect and sustainable fit for the idea of the fifteen-minute city
Alternative Editorial: Resist The Devil We Know
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, NEW ECONOMICS, PARTY POLITICS, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanesocio-politics, new paradigm, new politics, cosmolocal, social capital, the craic, personal political
The public needs input, and consensus, on how they should shape AI in their lives. Belgium’s Citizen Panel on AI promises much
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
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
FUTURES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, LOCALISM, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, COMMUNITY, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOURpat kanetransition towns, transition network, transition tooting, tooting
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
From Here To Ecocivilisation: a Connectathon conversation with Violeta Bulc, Uffe Elbæk, Indra Adnan & Pat Kane, and Jeremy Lent
Alternative Editorial: Springing Into Action
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BIG PICTURE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PLANET A, SOCIO-POLITICS, WE CANpat kaneSpring, CAN, new political system, emotions, natality
Another Q for Spring: how can we get beyond "talking shops", and head for deliberative democracy?
Another Spring theme - how strong, cosmolocal communities can build a parallel polis - echoed by Adam Greenfield's concept of "lifehouses"
Alternative Editorial: launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, A/UK PODCAST, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, ARTISTS, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PLANET A, POLITICAL CULTURE, REGEN ECONOMIES, SOCIO-POLITICS, SPRINGpat kanenew political system, parallel pois, partner state, praxis, agency, new economy, 4th sector, new media, parallel polis
What's an "interspecies council"? A way of bringing more-than-human voices into a deliberation over the environment. And UKGov hosted it
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
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
“We need a life-affirming, up-to-date version of the Mont Pelerin Society: an Ecological Civilization Coalition”, says Jeremy Lent
Alternative Editorial: People Power Is Not About Numbers
"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