If you really want a climate-friendly garden, then lower your shovel, and become a eco-slacker
Whether it's large cash payments to the homeless, or a 4-day week, we're turning upside down our traditional attitudes to work
For those who are overly tough on themselves.. try 40 “strengths-based questions”, to uncover assets and powers (instead of cracks and flaws)
"It is only in leisure that we are free enough to decide what it is we stand for". An argument against productivity, all the time, digitally or not
There are new train experiences like European Sleeper opening up all over the continent, in the post airline-era
A BETTER MEDIA, ACTION, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, PLANETARIAN, TECHNOLOGYpat kaneEurope, transport, public transport, trains, leisure
Apolitical's 100 Climate Breakthroughs of 2023 show that the planetary solutions are here - we just have to organise better to implement them
"The next big thing in climate action will be many smaller things". The Climate Majority Project brings Lords and Swampies together
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Alter Natives: We're looking for expressions of hope in these demanding times. Might hitchhiking in South-East Asia be one of them?
From 'The Girl In The Blue Bra' to 'My Stealthy Freedom', women are using symbols on social media to defy the sexism of authoritarian regimes
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The delicate skill of Noh maskmakers, irregular baby heartbeats as modular beats, and GrimesAI scattering her voice to the world. All cultural craft is here
Kinshasa's Fulu Act turn the rubbish from their streets into wild costumes, challenging citizens and authorities to do better
Here Comes Everyone: XR's strategy for 2023-24 aims sees strengthening communities as the path to effective climate protest
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In Sierra Leone, post-civil war, you might live next to your amputator. Family talk (fambul tok) was a community resource for peace. It’s a lesson to our polarised societies
One-to-one conversations are the most effective converters to a cause, says research. To get to Net Zero, we need them urgently
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Mothers’ Rebellion takes the spirit of XR and puts it in the hands of mums, placing the fate of children front and centre
"Climate quitters" are leaving their jobs because employers are worsening the planet. But where do they go next?
Alternative Editorial: Making Peace
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The Climate Majority Project, says Rupert Read, will build citizens' confidence to act for the planet, where they are
"We are a group of people composed of who we are". A rich history of collective work - artistic, cultural, social - in Hackney
Online war games aren't yet banned in Russia. Finland's Helsingen Sanomat uses Counter-Strike to get counter-facts into the country