Alternative Editorial: Springing Into Action
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Jonathan Rowson on the "dissonance" we feel in the midst of our wars and crises - when bombs and aid fall from the same skies
Women favour climate actions that benefit future generations - like bearing current costs of mitigation - more than men
The original sustainable architect, an evocation of time and tide, one year in a flower-farmer's life: A/V for Spring
Another Q for Spring: how can we get beyond "talking shops", and head for deliberative democracy?
More questions for Spring: How would the project work in relation to The Scottish Parliament?
Another Spring theme - how strong, cosmolocal communities can build a parallel polis - echoed by Adam Greenfield's concept of "lifehouses"
“From a Value-Added Economy to a Value-Restorative Society”—and other ways Spring relates to capitalism
Alternative Editorial: launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING
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Alternative Editorial 319: Why The Alternative Is Not Simply Better
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The Scottish Gaelic concept of Dúthchas urges that people and nature are deeply entangled. Let it guide the path to land reform
The Body Shop would seem to be over. But aren’t Gen Z perfectly placed to revive the brand - given its green ethics (and its 90s chic)?
Can stone return as a viable and sustainable material for buildings and constructions?
The modern commune brings together childcare and eldercare, women from 58 to 94, business and pleasure
A laughter cafe, a healing cafe, a soup cafe, a mending cafe... Anything but yet another coffee cafe, pleads Bridget McKenzie
With the latest and coming wave of neurotech devices, the truth is that your brain may need a lawyer
“We need a conception of the human-made world that acknowledges its continuities with this planet’s other systems”, says Tom Chatfield
Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Be Patient
Cliodynamics studies crises - even polycrises - of the past. It shows how we can break out of present and future destructive patterns
To respond properly to climate crisis, says Steffi Bednarek, you have to wrangle your “internal family” - the manager, the exile, the firefighter