"Evil Does Not Exist" is a powerful Japanese eco-drama about one community’s fight against intrusive land development
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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In Scotland, the circular economy is more than an occasion for eco-virtue. It’s ingenious and fun too
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The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK
Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work
More questions for Spring: How would the project work in relation to The Scottish Parliament?
The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform
A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie
Degrowth has its defenders, but there's a spiritual "gap" in its theories. Glasgow's Andalus centre hopes to fill it
If water is scarce where you are, then long-term thinking is preferred. New research on the link between ecology and culture
Alternative Editorial: The Real Front Line
"Tech for Today - and for Tomorrow" makes a resounding case that community tech can drive change in Britain
“San Francisco was the left edge of America, a refuge from its conformities, a sanctuary for misfits, a lab for new ideas”. And now, says Rebecca Solnit…
The Humanity Project has 70+ popular assemblies set up in the UK—communities acting in the face of our climate extremes
How Ireland’s Nollaig na mBan evolved from a day off housework to a celebration of women’s achievements
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"We treat land more like a consumer good than a fundamental foundation of existence." Revive and Common Weal on "Our Land"
“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
"Is that a doughnut or a meringue?" No, you were right the first time... Doughnut Economics makes its arrival in Glasgow