An "ABC of The New Economy" - self-determination in food, energy, housing, social care and more - is definitely worth crowdfunding
The more powerful a community, the more wellbeing it feels. But this should precede “interventions” from outside, which often cause resentment and tension
Alternative Editorial: A Social Contract For the Digital Age?
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, BUILD THE ECONOMY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISM, PLANET A, SHAPE THE SYSTEM, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanesocial contract, digital age, media system, media culture, political culture
A CAN at work... Look at the convening of energy and initiative going on in the Plymouth Octopus Newsletter
Hemp and algae are super-organic substances that can make ecological localism real and practical
YES WE CAN, TECHNOLOGY, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LOCALISM, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, COMMUNITY, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kanehemp, algae, rare flowers, film essay
Your housing costs are 3.5% of your income - and your residence is beautiful and cross-class. Welcome to the renters’ paradise of Vienna
The Climate Majority Project, says Rupert Read, will build citizens' confidence to act for the planet, where they are
Alternative Editorial: Slow Motion Implosion
A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISM, PARTY POLITICS, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanecoronation, King Charles, local elections, proportional representation, progressive alliance, collapse, reimaging
“When we design, we really have to be feeling the Earth in some way, we cannot continue to inflict damage on it.” RIBA Royal Gold Medal winner, Yasmeen Lari
Food Futures in North Lancashire, and Paris’ first zero-carbon neighbourhood - networking and building up regeneration
The short films of Drawdown’s Neighbourhoods see carbon being reduced project by project, locality by locality
So what do we do with underused, empty churches? Turn them into “Lifehouses”, suggests Adam Greenfield, and make communities resilient
A "Miyawaki forest" takes two decades to mature at the heart of a city. In Lisbon, it's burgeoning in two years
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LOCALISMpat kaneurban studies, urban development, trees, forests, reforesting, lisbon, Portugal, eco cities, ecocities
If we want to bend tech towards people and planet, the study of soil can be our teacher, writes Greg Frey
Edinburgh is a hotbed of community self-empowerment - with the Edinburgh Tool Library showing the way
Alternative Editorial: Who Speaks For The People?
A/UK EDITORIAL, A BETTER MEDIA, ANTI-RACISM, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, LOCALISM, PARTY POLITICS, TELL THE STORYpat kanesoft power, football, immigration, politics, language, power of the arts, media, propaganda
Welcome to the Agrihood! Detroit's urban gardens are becoming a whole system of housing, employment and good health
Rob Hopkins’ top Transition slogans, and his imaginative “time-travel” journey to 2030 - where beavers command the landscape
15-minute cities: how to separate the reality from the conspiracy theory
What do we think of when we think of luxury? A Walthamstow cafe that does magic with salvaged surplus food profoundly answers the question