Posts tagged cosmolocalism
“Turn your street into a hub powered by renewable energy and fuelled by poetic imagination”. Who wouldn’t want to be a Power Station?
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
Local news “drives democratic engagement, mitigates disinformation & protects environmental standards.” UK philanthropy needs to step up to help it
How to write a 20-point Magna Carta for democratic cities—starting in a Rome hotel room
What are “the neighbourhood fundamentals” that can help us adapt to a 3-degrees climate warming? Best to be prepared…
Considering the Fens of Cambridgeshire, their eventual reflooding, and what resistance that could provoke, from Greg Frey
The powerful municipalism operating in Naples and Barcelona has concrete lessons for community power in the UK
"Just Transformations" shows grassroots movements for alternative futures arising across the planet
Alternative Editorial: Be Careful What You Wish For
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTUREpat kanescotland, fractal, ecocivilisation, democracy, deliberation, cosmolocalism
“Village Hosts” are collaboration experts who co-create new projects in rural areas - mixing creativity and local knowledge
"Is that a doughnut or a meringue?" No, you were right the first time... Doughnut Economics makes its arrival in Glasgow
Cosmolocalism imagined in graphics, and as a route to putting "nature rights" at the heart of the Irish constitution
In 2017, some women declared "Lass War" against a sexist "Northern Powerhouse". In 2023, the People's Powerhouse charts a diverse path for the North
We know that cosmolocalism is a way of empowering communities. But it's also the seeds of a new (and needed) economic system
So what do we do with underused, empty churches? Turn them into “Lifehouses”, suggests Adam Greenfield, and make communities resilient
Alternative Editorial: Breaking Free
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, BUILD THE ECONOMY, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, INDIVIDUAL, PLANET Apat kanePlanet A, social imaginary, tribes, usual suspect, community, cosmolocalism
The Mondragon model of living and producing together is inspirational - even as far away as the state of Utah
"A floating, multifunctional space for a community": Ecuador's Santay Observatory tests out residence on water
When Edinburgh's Canongate community resisted a crass urban development, they deployed a "working-class cosmopolitanism"
Jules Evans on “the apostles of exit-ocracy…great at smashing things up, less good at building something that lasts”