The college, the workshop, the lending circle, the artists' guild... from Rome to Siberia and beyond, a short history of cooperation and mutuality
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 “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
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
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
To avoid the “wellness-industrial complex”, we must value our soul as a pathway to purpose and service, writes Mark Vernon
Apples, pears, cherries, plums and apricots are all flowering earlier: how climate breakdown affects your fruit bowl
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, YES WE CAN, REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PRACTICE, SPRINGpat kanenature, fruit, agriculture, permaculture, food politics, food
Digitally divided in society, echo-located in a neighbourhood, sanctified on a mountain... Documentaries that make a world
Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work
“Less mechanisation in life! Resist the machine apocalypse!” We’re pretty techno-optimist here, but these are powerful voices against
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
What is the transformational work, personal and cultural, that's needed to create durable systems change? Not scaling "up", or "out", but scaling DEEP
UN president António Guterres describes an "unhinged" world that cannot "come together to respond". So how do we learn to disagree well?
What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine
Philanthropy that doesn’t ask to you report, or comply, and “gifts” you way more than you asked for... Studying Mackenzie Scott’s YieldGiving
REGEN ECONOMIES, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, INDIVIDUAL, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, YES WE CANpat kanephilanthropy, Mackenzie scott, Jeff bezos, amazon, GIFT ECONOMY
Vive is a new social platform for communities signing up to a "transition" worldview and practice
How Ireland’s Nollaig na mBan evolved from a day off housework to a celebration of women’s achievements
FEMININE, YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, INDIVIDUAL, LOCALISMpat kaneireland, christmas, celebration, women, fe ], feminism
Are life coaches and fitness classes, aiming to get those on long-term sick leave back to work, coercive or liberating?
Thinking like Gaia is more than the sum of the cards, says planetary coach Tom Mansfield
PRACTICE, PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, LEARNING, INGENUITY, FUTURES, ARTISTSpat kanegames, cards, gaia, play
Attending COP this fortnight, Vanessa Nakate says young people fighting for a habitable planet need to be properly resourced