“Don’t scale UP, scale OUT". Municipalism isn't just about a smaller version of the old state - but a new kind of politics
The Good Country is an entirely new global/virtual nation, aiming "to make the world work better"
Alternative Editorial: Making Art, Making Politics
A new pro-democracy movement is brain-storming in Poland, led by gay mayor Robert Biedron
When music itself becomes a kind of politics - more from Georgia, Ireland & Germany
"New Italians" make brilliant pop music to combat reaction and prejudice in contemporary Italy
Alternative Editorial: Who and What Are We?
BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, GLOBALISTS, LOCALISM, NEW ECONOMICS, A/UK EDITORIALpat kanesolidarity, ancient wisdom, back to nature, festivals, individualism, collective
Festival Culture: Escaping, Engaging, Transforming The World?
The Atlantic Project: Plymouth's 400th anniversary of the Mayflower triggers big thinking and global art
How do you build a new society, from local places, in the shadow of the old? Symbiosis Collective shows one way
Alternative Editorial: Three Game Changers
A/UK EDITORIAL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, GLOBALISTS, LOCALISM, PRACTICEpat kanesimon anholt, good country, innovation, relational welfare, social care, youth, employment, relationship, nations, platform cooperativism, collaboration, technology, global citizens, citizenship, radicalism, families
Beauty won't be stopped - in a Sheffield garage or a Mumbai slum, via a bamboo bike or a vineyard in a London Tube
The Rules' new video/meme #GrowthOrLife is beautiful and challenging
"Dream big – just don’t dream only about material things". Iceland's ex-Pirate Birgitta Jonsdottir reflects on politics
"There is, in fact, no 'other side'. The border taught me this." Kapka Kassabova on the future of Europe
Senegal's Journal Rappé: where French hip-hop gives you news you can use
Alternative Editorial: Are Global Eyes Wide Open?
Refugee Week is 20 years old - & more vibrant than ever. How will you celebrate it this weekend?
Plan B is taking the UK govt to court, for missing its climate change targets. And they're putting the law in people's hands
The YouTubers spreading peace between North/South Korea, and across the Middle East