Generation Z is veering away from alcohol and drunkenness. Cost, precarity and an acute sense of the demands of the future seem key
ACTION, YOUTH, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INDIVIDUAL, FUTURES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENTpat kanealcohol, alcoholism, drinking, food, gen z
We need to think of "technics", rather than technology, said Bernard Stiegler - showing how they harm or heal us as humans
Transition Tooting is going to make their locality into a "Town Anywhere" - capable of imagining, and realising, positive futures
FUTURES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, POLITICAL CULTURE, LOCALISM, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, COMMUNITY, ARTISTS, BEHAVIOURpat kanetransition towns, transition network, transition tooting, tooting
From "cowboy" economy to "spaceman" economy, and nine other essential papers that founded ecological economics
Alternative Editorial: The Dream Of Ecocivilisation
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PLANET A, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIESpat kaneecocivilisation, regeneration, RegenA, Planet A, china, ecological civilisation, social imaginary
To avoid the “wellness-industrial complex”, we must value our soul as a pathway to purpose and service, writes Mark Vernon
From Here To Ecocivilisation: a Connectathon conversation with Violeta Bulc, Uffe Elbæk, Indra Adnan & Pat Kane, and Jeremy Lent
Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
In Scotland, the circular economy is more than an occasion for eco-virtue. It’s ingenious and fun too
REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, LOCALISM, 4TH SECTOR, YES WE CANpat kanecircular economy, green economics, recycling, upcycling, Edinburgh, Glasgow
"If you want Gen Z [or ReGen A] to stop being such 'doomers', start offering them solutions", suggests Alice Garnett
The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK
Apples, pears, cherries, plums and apricots are all flowering earlier: how climate breakdown affects your fruit bowl
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, YES WE CAN, REGEN ECONOMIES, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PRACTICE, SPRINGpat kanenature, fruit, agriculture, permaculture, food politics, food
Alternative Editorial: Making The Existing Model Obsolete
A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, CREATE THE FEEL, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANET A, POLITICAL CULTURE, SPRINGpat kanePlanet A, parallel polis, buckminster fuller, incubators, system change
Digitally divided in society, echo-located in a neighbourhood, sanctified on a mountain... Documentaries that make a world
“Housing that is dignified, durable, beautiful and adaptable, and made available for all.” Dan Hill and Mariana Mazzucato dream big
“We are a family of cells making sense of laughter, a watery collection of tireless vitality.” Learn about “queer ecology”, in a new Advaya course
The domestic robot gets closer with Figure 01, powered by Open AI. But does automated servitude degrade our humanity? Or liberate it?
Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work
With K-Pop giants SEVENTEEN headlining Glastonbury, South Korea’s long-term soft power strategy is truly paying off
The Climate Majority Project keeps on building - a new book, new mission and vision statements, and help for teachers
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, LEARNING, GLOBALISTS, FUTURES, ACTIONpat kaneclimate crisis, climate emergency, climate breakdown, Rupert read