Don’t avoid conflict - be creative with it, multiply the options. How many ways can two children deal with one orange?
PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, LEARNING, INDIVIDUAL, GLOBALISTS, ACTION, BEHAVIOURpat kaneJohan Galtung, peace studies, conflict, conflict transformation
"Do you want to start a mediocre social enterprise? Or a movement?" Zahra Davidson thinks Huddlecraft could be the "surge" behind the latter
It’s said that individual behaviour change won’t really address the climate crisis. Not true, and not effective
Alternative Editorial: Small Big Thinking
“Fixers” know and see different things than “designers” or “users”. Shannon Mattern on the growing centrality of maintenance
ACTION, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, LEARNING, INGENUITY, ARTISTSpat kanearchitecture, design, care, maintenance, repair
An online school for social justice - with video courses that teach you how to persist, insist and resist
How children are helping to make their families more eco-friendly – some new research
In Manchester's Moss Side, a visionary community leader and 17-25 year olds create "the school you'd wish you'd gone to"
Six misunderstood concepts about diversity in the workplace and elsewhere. And why they matter
An English teacher asks his class of kids: What's the opposite of a gun? The many answers may help you
ARTISTS, VIDEO/FILM, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, COMMUNITY, LEARNINGpat kanepoetry, violence, non-violence, peace, armaments
The "regenerative" mindset is arising, but deserves educational support. This new “massive open online course” (MOOC) provides that
Zahra Davidson from Enrol Yourself looks to nature for lessons in cooperation. (Includes slime moulds, sea anemones and meerkats)
What do we *really* need to be educated in, to handle the next few wild decades? David Wood and his “Vital Syllabus” lays it out
“Alternative futures are being created around the world—but not, for the most part, in plain sight.” Bollier and Thackara in conversation
PLANETARIAN, COMMUNITY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, SOCIO-POLITICS, YES WE CAN, LEARNING, FUTURES, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, 4TH SECTORpat kanedavid bollier, John thackara, commoning, commons
"The planet is a political orphan": Dipesh Chakrabarty says to keep Earth habitable, we must reimagine a politics beyond the nation-state
We're advancing towards a 4-day week - from above (government prototypes) and below (individuals and companies)
Ninety nine percent of life is microbial - and thus invisible. So, asks Suzanne Ishaq and John Thackara, how do we design for that?
If we want a cosmolocal revolution, writes Benjamin Still, we must learn from how soil binds the world together
Over 200 organisations (including us!) seeking to “expand consciousness and effect systemic change” are gathered in the Murmuration Project
BIG PICTURE, FUTURES, INDIVIDUAL, LEARNING, 4TH SECTOR, INGENUITY, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, PRACTICEpat kaneconsciousness, mindfulness, spirituality
Our teachers are burnt-out and stressed-out. Giving them - and their pupils - a four day week will lift everyone's boats