Alternative Editorial: Shift Your Gaze
The anarchism of the Bookchins says politics should be a moral calling: rational, communal, creative & free
Free beer (and ice cream) for cycling in Bologna, local retail services for volunteering in Newcastle-Under-Lyme. Communities can incentivise themselves
Do you know your "commons-based peer production" from your "cosmo-localism"? A jargon test on our discourse here
Alternative Editorial: Can We Change Channel Please?
The Local Trust supports bottom-up civil society... starting from a glass-strewn waste-ground
Bristol to Brooklyn, Paris to Pittsburgh: restless cities act themselves on climate crisis
Mammamiaaa meals encourage participation across Europe... and Sheffield Food Works transforms food waste
Civil Society Futures' final report: people's desire for power and control must be answered
What Italian cities can teach us about how to establish urban commons - and their value
Encountering "social innovation" in Seville - and pondering what it could really become
Lesley Riddoch on the "power of local" - communities taking control in their own way
From Scotland, a proposal for a new level of self-defining community power: Development Councils
"Transition is a network of stories": reflections on 15 years of the Transition Towns movement
One way to challenge the preeminence of big banks is to build a small one. The story of Avon Mutual
Alternative Editorial: Moving Past Frustration
A/UK EDITORIAL, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, LOCALISM, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kanecollaborating, connecting, mozfest, perspectiva, ctrlshift, technology, collaboratories
Collaboration, dialogue, horizontality: what links the "feminisation" & "municipalisation" of politics.
Are you/we on this map? Here's an attempt to picture what civil society in the UK looks like
Create Streets say: We don't want NIMBYs, but YIMBYs and BIMBYs (Y for "Yes", B for "Beautiful")
When you ban cars from your city centre, you can hear birds sing, coffee spoons tinkle, see children wander...