If you want to transform a situation, note how ideas are diffused, how you overcome resistance and how networks work
On a conference visit to Shanghai, John Thackara brings back a rich harvest of eco-civilisational practice
As the “HSBC 9” eco-protesters are acquitted of criminality, an eloquent open letter explains their actions
ACTION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTUREpat kaneExtinction Rebellion, activism, climate activism, green protest, protest
The UN and the WHO begin a three-year global campaign to stress the power of connection - and the health costs of loneliness
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Want to be a “paradigm-shifting cultural explorer, peacekeeper, and mental health champion”? Then try some “listening as rebellion”
“Abolishing the rational, embracing the strange can create portals to other worlds”. Future Natures wants your vision of a weird nature
“The Mother’s Call” from Jewish and Palestinian activists introduces a feminist, peace-oriented take on the current conflict
YouthXYouth’s Ila Malhotra Gregory on the need for a global (r)evolution, led by youth, for education
“We're living through a global 'blandemic' in building design - an age of boring”, says Thomas Heatherwick, who wants emotion to return to architecture
Pop music has always thrummed to the topic of working lives. Now the delivery (or "gig") economy is inspiring new viral hits
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Citizens' Assemblies should lean towards becoming a parallel polis - and much less a democratic figleaf for establishments
Thermal imagining technology is at the heart of warfare. Here, it's a medium for filming glorious, sensuous dance
Political and social movements can school business practice. But can you separate movements' methods from their moral claims?
The crown is your staff, the trunk is your structure, the roots are your culture, & the soil is your community. A “nature-connected organisation” is a grand tree
Be open to surprise, make space for difference, do self-care: 3 things to make you and your community project thrive
We need a “People’s Pub Partnership”—new cooperative business models for pubs, so they can serve community and planet
“Uncertainty can be scary, but can it also be a source of hope or opportunity?” The pastoralists of the world may have much to teach us
So much being "made in Plymouth"... Even their vending machines contain art, poetry, plays and pin badges
Do you want the time (and space) to really imagine your possibilities, in life, activism, business? Then think ten years ahead
We know that cosmolocalism is a way of empowering communities. But it's also the seeds of a new (and needed) economic system