Posts in NEW ENERGY SOURCES
Hard work, happy accidents, the pleasures of ritual: why, in a digitally-saturated age, we still love “analogue” tech
We must see our current wars, and our impending climate meltdown, as inextricably linked. Rachel Donald talks to Olivia Lazard
It's a beautiful game. But even more beautiful when it provides a path towards self-mastery for homeless people, as a new movie shows
“The magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.” Natality lessons from D.H. Lawrence
“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
“Tired of the hustle… wanna hear the leaves rustle”. And other advertising strategies for the ultimate client, devised by The Agency for Nature
From a designer’s perspective, AI is like the new version of plastic - distorting everything, at great ecological cost
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
Considering the Fens of Cambridgeshire, their eventual reflooding, and what resistance that could provoke, from Greg Frey
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
To avoid the “wellness-industrial complex”, we must value our soul as a pathway to purpose and service, writes Mark Vernon
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
