Micro to macro: how the local and global can show a kind of "fractal" growth
Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism is a ground-breaking book - calling for the Net to return to the people
Ministers reject "One Yorkshire" proposal - but it's a harbinger of future devolution in England
Buses full of fresh fruit and veg in Toronto, "community-led homes" across the UK. Your systems in your hands
The "Green New Deal" may have begun in the UK - but it's seizing America, and encouraging new initiatives everywhere
Can UNDP's Accelerator Labs speed up the cosmo-local? Or will they subvert it?
Alternative Editorial: What's Love Got To Do With It?
California passes "the most important climate law in US history" to beat the IPCC target
For the artist George Shaw, one Coventry housing estate contains endless grace and transcendence
Finland's result on its UBI experiment: people don't shirk work. And it increases trust, health & wellbeing
Rushkoff reminds us: we can't blame evolution for our relentlessly competitive society. It does cooperation too.
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
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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?