"Privacy first! Then - everything else!" Cory Doctorow's suggestion for curing so many of the current internet's ills
Alternative Editorial: Understanding Our Choices
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kanechoice, conflict, binary, psychology, human givens, war, peace
Alternative Editorial: Busy Being Born
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, MASCULINE, POLITICAL CULTURE, YES WE CANpat kanenatality, innovation, political culture, new politics, hannah arendt
The UN and the WHO begin a three-year global campaign to stress the power of connection - and the health costs of loneliness
YES WE CAN, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, PLANETARIANpat kaneunited nations, WHO, loneliness, isolation, social capital, atomisation, health
Teachers see eco-emergency, AI/tech, and polarisation as their kids’ future. 85% are not confident education is preparing them for it
Alternative Editorial: We Have To Build The Alternative To War
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, violence, architecture, citizens assembly, democracy, peace, agency, participation
What is to be done with cavernous ex-retail spaces, in a post-consumerist era? Make them cathedrals of dance music, says Drumsheds
ACTION, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, INGENUITY, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, YOUTH, NEW ENERGY SOURCESpat kanedance culture, retail, postconsumerism
Alternative Editorial: Feminine Intelligence Can Transform Reality
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, FEMININE, PLANET A, SHAPE THE SYSTEMpat kanefeminine, masculine, FemmeQ, soft power, warw, violence, system change
Alternative Editorial: Shifting Power
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, FEMININE, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, Israel, Gaza, middle east, conflict transformation, feminine, femmeq, power
Pop music has always thrummed to the topic of working lives. Now the delivery (or "gig") economy is inspiring new viral hits
ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, PRACTICE, TECHNOLOGY, YOUTH, A BETTER MEDIA, VIDEO/FILMpat kanegig economy, delivery economy, brazil, venezuela
Alternative Editorial: The Alternative To War Is Not Peace
A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, FEMININE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, peace, middle east, binary, socio-politics, peace journalism, conflict transformaton
Prominent Iranian women’s rights advocate Narges Mohammadi has won the 2023 Nobel peace prize
“In any given situation, how might you increase the amount of freedom that’s available to you?” Sophie Scott-Brown’s version of anarchism
Alternative Editorial: Changing Our Minds
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, CREATE THE FEEL, FEMININE, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kaneecological civilisation, feminine, psychedelics, neuroscience, Power of the Arts, greece, future being, Jeremy Lent
We need a “People’s Pub Partnership”—new cooperative business models for pubs, so they can serve community and planet
“You are stuck in a daydream…the machine was not made for you”. A starkly beautiful journey, by means of dance and film, through our illusions about reality
Whether it's large cash payments to the homeless, or a 4-day week, we're turning upside down our traditional attitudes to work
For those who are overly tough on themselves.. try 40 “strengths-based questions”, to uncover assets and powers (instead of cracks and flaws)
Sinead O'Connor was once seen as a sacrilegious rebel, but her music and life were deeply infused with spiritual seeking
"If an AI simulates a popstar and starts gigging...has she passed the Touring Test?" There’s more techno-gags like that at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe
A BETTER MEDIA, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOUR, TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, YOUTHpat kanecomedy, artificial intelligence, Edinburgh, Edinburgh festival fringe