“You drown not by falling into a river but by staying submerged in it.” We need to start paying attention to systemic trauma--the pain in our organisations
Novelist Elif Shafak highlights Virginia Woolf’s 1929 call to peace as deeply relevant to women today, in our own age of wars
In 2024, do most men still lead lives of quiet desperation? A new documentary, Silent Men, seeks some answers among the taciturn
How artistic organisations can express their role in helping the survival of biodiverse and human life on this troubled planet
From a 1978 Japanese tv interview, Patti Smith comes with a perennial message: “*This* is your Golden Age…the time to flower is now”
It’s not vehemence towards a system, but a sense that a better system is possible, that makes it shift (says Charlie Leadbeater)
Alternative Editorial: Is Winning For Losers?
"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
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
ACTION, BIG PICTURE, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, SPRINGpat kanepsychology, political emotions, climate emergency
A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans. Here’s why this linguistic argument matters
Polls and trends are showing that Generation Z may be ready to give up on endless economic growth
Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Keep Our Politics Private
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PARTY POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, SPRING, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanepublic, private, personal political, party politics, political culture
“Tired of the hustle… wanna hear the leaves rustle”. And other advertising strategies for the ultimate client, devised by The Agency for Nature
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
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
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
“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