Posts in POLITICAL CULTURE
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
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
We know what "corporate veganism" is - greenwash for the same old brutal food giants. But what if they faced a socialist veganism?
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
From Here To Ecocivilisation: a Connectathon conversation with Violeta Bulc, Uffe Elbæk, Indra Adnan & Pat Kane, and Jeremy Lent
The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK
Alternative Editorial: Making The Existing Model Obsolete
A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, CREATE THE FEEL, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANET A, POLITICAL CULTURE, SPRINGpat kanePlanet A, parallel polis, buckminster fuller, incubators, system change
The Climate Majority Project keeps on building - a new book, new mission and vision statements, and help for teachers
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, LEARNING, GLOBALISTS, FUTURES, ACTIONpat kaneclimate crisis, climate emergency, climate breakdown, Rupert read
Another Q for Spring: how can we get beyond "talking shops", and head for deliberative democracy?
More questions for Spring: How would the project work in relation to The Scottish Parliament?
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
How do you make a global citizens movement? Like bees to flowers, connect across profoundly different realities, says Jose Ramos
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
“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
India’s Digital Public Infrastructure effectively implements Universal Basic Income, at a massive scale. But are users’ rights protected enough?
How do you embrace uncertainty? Be your own defence lawyer, devise alternatives, have a “can-do” attitude
Should philanthropy become political? It depends whether the aim is ideological, or a richer, more deliberative form of democracy itself
Federalists, communitarians, mayoralists - three tribes of thinking about where the locus of power should be in the UK