Large protest more effective, non-violent ones more potent, unified goals win more support. And police oppression tends to help… The science of protest
“Games providing the impression or actuality of more autonomy are growing in popularity”, says prog games-maker Keir Milburn
ACTION, A BETTER MEDIA, ARTISTS, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INGENUITY, LEARNING, TECHNOLOGY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONpat kanecomputer games, video games, social games
Oil companies haven't been compelled to assess the full climate impact of their drilling—until now. A Weald local wins at the Supreme Court
Youth activists are now real agents of change at global climate summits - and winning through "lawfare"
"Humans are imaginative activists - all of them, and they have been so for millennia. But we now need to come into our powers", writes Bridget McKenzie
ARTISTS, ACTION, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, LEARNING, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, SPRINGpat kaneeco-art, cultural politics, museums
"Everything we need to transform our communities already exists", says new book Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox For Liberation
The Inner Development Goals - relationship to self, cognitive skills, caring for others and the world, social skills, enabling change - are marching on Stockholm
ACTION, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PRACTICE, PLANETARIAN, SPRINGpat kaneinner development goals, SDGs, sustainability, development, adult development
Write a letter to future generations. Or imagine how your region will be. But doom-&-gloom messaging about climate change just doesn't work
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Polls and trends are showing that Generation Z may be ready to give up on endless economic growth
Alternative Editorial: Becoming Independent
A/UK EDITORIAL, ACTION, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, OLDER GENS, PLANET A, SHAPE THE SYSTEM, YES WE CANpat kanemetamorphosis, X, GEN X Y Z, RegenA, Democracy
Older women and children celebrate a landmark human-rights ruling on governments’ responsibility for climate worsening
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
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
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
Alternative Editorial 319: Why The Alternative Is Not Simply Better
A/UK EDITORIAL, ACTION, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PARTY POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kaneWestminster, Winter, Spring, new politics, Gaza, middle east, westminster
What's an "interspecies council"? A way of bringing more-than-human voices into a deliberation over the environment. And UKGov hosted it
Consciously replace your deep metaphors - for example, “argument is a war” with “argument is a dance” - and the reality before you changes
NEW ENERGY SOURCES, POLITICAL CULTURE, LEARNING, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, BEHAVIOUR, ACTION, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PRACTICEpat kanemetaphor, George lakoff, language
Defying norms of beauty or flourishing, body appreciation is a powerful route to sustained wellbeing
UN president António Guterres describes an "unhinged" world that cannot "come together to respond". So how do we learn to disagree well?
"Don't Fight", "Don't Win", "Don't Surrender". The mottos of the independent Republic of Užupis, made by artists in Lithuania's capital Vilnius