Posts in PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT
“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
There is a growing “University of Movements”—where what is learned comes from activism and the construction of alternatives
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
Considering the Fens of Cambridgeshire, their eventual reflooding, and what resistance that could provoke, from Greg Frey
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
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
Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
"If you want Gen Z [or ReGen A] to stop being such 'doomers', start offering them solutions", suggests Alice Garnett
Digitally divided in society, echo-located in a neighbourhood, sanctified on a mountain... Documentaries that make a world
Jonathan Rowson on the "dissonance" we feel in the midst of our wars and crises - when bombs and aid fall from the same skies
Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations - like bearing current costs of mitigation - more than men
With the latest and coming wave of neurotech devices, the truth is that your brain may need a lawyer
To respond properly to climate crisis, says Steffi Bednarek, you have to wrangle your “internal family” - the manager, the exile, the firefighter
“Less mechanisation in life! Resist the machine apocalypse!” We’re pretty techno-optimist here, but these are powerful voices against
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
Consciously replace your deep metaphors - for example, “argument is a war” with “argument is a dance” - and the reality before you changes
NEW ENERGY SOURCES, POLITICAL CULTURE, LEARNING, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, BEHAVIOUR, ACTION, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICEpat kanemetaphor, George lakoff, language
"Trans people literally built the internet, as queer and trans people have been ardent technologists since the beginning"
Defying norms of beauty or flourishing, body appreciation is a powerful route to sustained wellbeing