Earth as choked by carbon emissions from the Global North - or pulsing with new potential, as Planet A? Both images are useful
From a 1978 Japanese tv interview, Patti Smith comes with a perennial message: “*This* is your Golden Age…the time to flower is now”
What might a parallel polis feel like? David Bollier’s idea of a “commonsverse” - a world in which commons are viable & valued - could tell us
BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, YES WE CAN, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, 4TH SECTORpat kanecommoning, commons, david bollier, silke Helfrich, ontoshift
It’s not vehemence towards a system, but a sense that a better system is possible, that makes it shift (says Charlie Leadbeater)
Write a letter to future generations. Or imagine how your region will be. But doom-&-gloom messaging about climate change just doesn't work
ACTION, BIG PICTURE, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, SPRINGpat kanepsychology, political emotions, climate emergency
The college, the workshop, the lending circle, the artists' guild... from Rome to Siberia and beyond, a short history of cooperation and mutuality
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
There is a growing “University of Movements”—where what is learned comes from activism and the construction of alternatives
Hard Art says: “Everything today is about story, about attention, about making people feel something fully enough to do something about it"
An “integral journalism” would expose people to more complex information, healthier discourse, and inspiration for transformation
Rob Hopkins’ Ministry of Imagination has produced a manifesto of what-if policies - from the most starry-eyed to the costed and practical
BIG PICTURE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, NEW ECONOMICS, INGENUITY, MANIFESTOS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGY, YES WE CANpat kaneimagination, rob hopkins, transition network
Considering the Fens of Cambridgeshire, their eventual reflooding, and what resistance that could provoke, from Greg Frey
Alternative Editorial: A Month In The Life of Edinburgh
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, PLANET Apat kaneNew politics, Bayo Akomolafe, Integral, transformation, comolocalism
From Here To Ecocivilisation: a Connectathon conversation with Violeta Bulc, Uffe Elbæk, Indra Adnan & Pat Kane, and Jeremy Lent
"If you want Gen Z [or ReGen A] to stop being such 'doomers', start offering them solutions", suggests Alice Garnett
Alternative Editorial: Springing Into Action
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BIG PICTURE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PLANET A, SOCIO-POLITICS, WE CANpat kaneSpring, CAN, new political system, emotions, natality
Jonathan Rowson on the "dissonance" we feel in the midst of our wars and crises - when bombs and aid fall from the same skies
Alternative Editorial: launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, A/UK PODCAST, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, ARTISTS, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PLANET A, POLITICAL CULTURE, REGEN ECONOMIES, SOCIO-POLITICS, SPRINGpat kanenew political system, parallel pois, partner state, praxis, agency, new economy, 4th sector, new media, parallel polis
“We need a conception of the human-made world that acknowledges its continuities with this planet’s other systems”, says Tom Chatfield
Cliodynamics studies crises - even polycrises - of the past. It shows how we can break out of present and future destructive patterns