Why go to Glastonbury, or any major summer festival? The latest research suggests it could change your life
“If depression is grinding to an exhausted standstill, anxiety is the terror of ever getting started”. William Davies on the anxious generation
The science of beauty: how aesthetics can boost your mood and cognition—and save you from a crash landing
Sound thinking: how the resonances of music and sound go deeply into the places that need to heal, with Alexandre Tannous
Youth activists are now real agents of change at global climate summits - and winning through "lawfare"
How artistic organisations can express their role in helping the survival of biodiverse and human life on this troubled planet
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
How do we make the shift to planet-friendly food systems attractive, even cool? Cooking Sections, using art and design, shows us how
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, ARTISTS, INGENUITY, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCESpat kanefood, food politics, locavore
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
Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach
The college, the workshop, the lending circle, the artists' guild... from Rome to Siberia and beyond, a short history of cooperation and mutuality
It's a beautiful game. But even more beautiful when it provides a path towards self-mastery for homeless people, as a new movie shows
The “Earthrise” picture from the Apollo missions, and the Church Forests of Ethiopia, both “extend the circle of ourselves to nature”
YES WE CAN, SPRING, PRACTICE, PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, COMMUNITYpat kaneethiopia, church, eden, space flight, earth
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
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
To avoid the “wellness-industrial complex”, we must value our soul as a pathway to purpose and service, writes Mark Vernon
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
Digitally divided in society, echo-located in a neighbourhood, sanctified on a mountain... Documentaries that make a world
Digitally mapping fertile spaces, teaching deep permaculture, all becoming co-stewards: Plymouth’s special social power at work
“Less mechanisation in life! Resist the machine apocalypse!” We’re pretty techno-optimist here, but these are powerful voices against