"Spending a day in a room getting food cooked for you": Extinction Rebellion's way of looking at reality (and arrest)
New narratives from Africa - shaped by news and investigative reporting, and contemporary art-film
Yuval Noah Harari unearths the stories we live by - but doesn't recognise his own dangerous myths, says Jeremy Lent
Young people are about to utterly transform climate politics, in the UK and US
"Transition is a network of stories": reflections on 15 years of the Transition Towns movement
Collaboration, dialogue, horizontality: what links the "feminisation" & "municipalisation" of politics.
Brexit musings around hope, fear, loss & what we value, in Germany, France, London and Grimsby
Ghent is an "alt-city" - opening its planning and resources to the decision-making of citizens
“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