There are four powers you need to shift a system, say Leadbeater and Whinall. And all of them have shaped the rise and rise of veganism
Netflix for the Planet? Dive into Waterbear - a new streaming platform for earth and climate crisis documentaries
Abandoning the political slot machine: Hanno Burmester was at the very heart of "Berlin Politics" - and now proposes a new game entirely
🎶I never Meta world like you before…🎶 But Zuckerberg’s parallel digital universe is something we’ve been anticipating at A/UK
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"Dune" is about more than spacecraft, gifted boys and marching armies. It's a prophetic tale of eco-destruction wrought by colonisation
Superflux and Tim Maughan's new short futures film, The Intersection, shows collective hope after system collapse
Visualisations of climate crisis: put Buck House (and Celtic Park) underwater, see how much plastic you eat a week, and attend to the jellyfish
If we send love letters to a liveable future, will that motivate us better than scary facts, asks Becky Burchell
We’re on the train, we occupied it unequally, now it’s stopped, and we find it was headed for the precipice… Covid stories that stimulate the moral imagination
Hawaiian tales of a healing "third sex", a new treasure trove of "motionpoems", & engineers riff on climate. Some animated delights for you
A/UK at Demos Helsinki’s “Untitled” event. Engaging both imagination and experimentation makes for real change
Between India and Dundee, experiments in how to "decentralise digital". Meaning putting powerful tech in communities' hands
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9/11 changed our movies - bringing us unsullied bravery, different definitions of terrorists, and more critique from your superheroes
AlJazeera's "The Stream" covers the current Impossible Rebellion from XR with fairness - watch again
“With land we can” - a story that can break our passive, resigned relationship to land, from Future Narratives Lab and Shared Assets
We need to electrify 1 billion small machines, and 1 million big machines, if we want to make a serious dent in energy usage
We’re caught between “hope & despair, credulity & incredulity, progress & peril, agency & apathy.” Jonathan Rowson on how metamodernism can help
Alternative Editorial: The Ongoing Reveal
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Yearn for the vast and endless sea (if you really want the boat built). More In Common suggest new post-Covid stories to inspire and unite us
Alternative Editorial: That's Football