Voting is just “entry-level democracy”, says Audrey Tang. After that, open data and deliberation
Politics and policies beyond anger and fear: Jamie Bristow's report on mindfulness in the UK Parliament
A/UK speaking on Utopia Dispatch - a podcast to reimagine the future and reshape the world
Alternative Editorial: Don't Look For Hope, Look For Action
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, LOCALISM, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, A/UK EDITORIAL, A BETTER MEDIA, FUTURESpat kanesocial media, action, hope, ReGen A, attention economy, soft power, greta thunberg, human givens
Drummer Queens, voice boxes for the mute, 21stC unions, AI that customises drugs for you: TED's 20 New Fellows
“A system that privileges rationality over emotion is a system that protects the status quo”. How stories can help break through
"B Corps" - for-benefit corporations (rather than only for-profit) - are proving their worth
It seems the idea of a four-day working week is going mainstream. Onwards to 21 hours?
Immersive theatre can put you at the heart of a revolution. But does it make you revolutionary?
Trebek and Williams ask: What if we ran our economies and societies as if we had “arrived” - instead of obsessing about progress?
Imagine you went to a festival, and it restored the land, rather than trashing it? Here's Ecosystem Restoration Camps
Alternative Editorial: Step Up Regeneration A
Here's Participedia. That's right: an encyclopedia of participatory and deliberative practice
The UN agreed a Declaration on the Rights of Peasants/Workers in Rural Areas to have "seed sovereignty"
Citizens Assemblies are the idea of the moment. But will they actually help the current UK political crisis?
"Stop shouting 'future' - start doing it". Anab Jain of Superflux in praise of "alternative trajectories"
How to do commentary as poetry: Brexit - A Cry From The Border, with Stephen Rea and Clare Dwyer Hogg
What is "soft infrastructure"? Maybe it's using the batteries of parked electric cars as stores for renewable energy
Now free to watch: The People's Spring -how civic tech movements affect modern politics
Alternative Editorial: The Revolution Now Possible