Posts in POLITICAL CULTURE
Replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens? A good idea (and debated in Scotland since 2017)
"The next big thing in climate action will be many smaller things". The Climate Majority Project brings Lords and Swampies together
COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LEARNING, FUTURES, ACTIONpat kaneclimate crisis, activism, creative activism, Extinction Rebellion, Rupert read
After the shenanigans of the recent UK honours, what would a pro-planet awards system look like?
Interviewed by Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart on Doughnut Economics, Kate Raworth runs rings round them…
New and improved constitutions can be top-down affairs. But in Latin America, the process is often crowdsourced. What can we learn?
Alternative Editorial: Shift In The Culture Wars
The Climate Majority Project, says Rupert Read, will build citizens' confidence to act for the planet, where they are
Alternative takes on the Coronation of King Charles: a different Oath, the power of ritual, and why we should celebrate Chuck the Weird
Enjoy the Coronation Holiday Monday - it goes with the trend for "three day weekends", improving wellbeing and economy
Alternative Editorial: Love Needs Architecture
A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, PLANET A, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneearth day, Planet A, planetarians, Extinction Rebellion, architecture, language, new politics, infrastructure
“Free time is when we have the possibility to be fully human. That’s what we’re talking about.” What French protests against pension reform really want
What makes a serious climate strategy almost impossible in the UK? Our current political system
The People’s Plan For Nature has finally landed - seeking a “Union” of forces, to ensure nature is at the heart of all policy
Before our current concern with the "wellbeing economy” there was the "libido economy” in the 1970s. What did Argentinian polymath Carlos Mallmann mean by it?
Alternative Editorial: Everything All At Once
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, FEMININE, PARTY POLITICS, PLANET A, PRACTICE, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneparty politics, POC, division, social imaginary, incubators, integral, integration
Planet A is ALIVE! A New Political System
Alternative Editorial: Is Politics More Broken Than Ever?
From Global Voices, a personal excavation of the "silent" Arab generation, in Amal Ghandour's This Arab Life
Alternative Editorial: What Are We Afraid Of?
There is "a long-running, disruptive, psychedelic tradition in modern Northern English culture". Will it help The North rise?