The UK is moving beyond putting a high value on working - millennials and Gen Z acutely so
Norway's Minus makes "carbon-negative" chairs that you "subscribe" to - ensuring they end up as bio-char
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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
Offline and online, coming out of Berlin, maybe a "School of Machines, Making and Make-Believe" is exactly what you need
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Do we produce enough to live dignified, meaningful and creative lives? Yes. And “public-commons partnerships” can get us there, says Abundance
Alternative Editorial: Incubating Ecocivilisation
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Cities that use tech to measure their performance, but make that data serve an "emergent civic economy", from Dark Matter Labs
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Sheffield’s Opus Network is the very ideal of a CAN - making media, doing business and connecting to a planet of ideas
"Community provides a sandbox for playing with identity. Members can find spaces to feel even more themselves"
Apolitical's 100 Climate Breakthroughs of 2023 show that the planetary solutions are here - we just have to organise better to implement them
A CAN at work... Look at the convening of energy and initiative going on in the Plymouth Octopus Newsletter
With the vast majority of their profits coming from oil & gas, these aren’t “energy companies”. They’re still *fossil fuel* companies
Stories and initiatives from the Stir To Action's Playground for a New Economy event. Vigour from the ground-up
If you wanted to develop an alternative economic model, what are the basic categories you would use?
If you want lessons on building the future in the present, this volume of reports on Cooperation Jackson will provide
“To reinvent the world, the journey begins on the block where you live”. California embraces the Cool Block Project
Innocent build an all-electric drinks factory called The Blender. It smells of strawberries (but still makes millions of plastic bottles)
54% of young people can’t name a cooperative. But 66% want companies to act ethically with workers and consumers. Can these poll numbers come together?
Edinburgh is a hotbed of community self-empowerment - with the Edinburgh Tool Library showing the way
Two takes on growth. Could we not grow "more", but consume "better"? Or is perpetual growth just going to trigger climate meltdown?