Considering the Fens of Cambridgeshire, their eventual reflooding, and what resistance that could provoke, from Greg Frey
Transition Tooting is going to make their locality into a "Town Anywhere" - capable of imagining, and realising, positive futures
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Matthew Green wants a new media system - a journalism that can heal our collective trauma (and not make it worse)
"If you want Gen Z [or ReGen A] to stop being such 'doomers', start offering them solutions", suggests Alice Garnett
“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
Alternative Editorial 319: Why The Alternative Is Not Simply Better
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With the latest and coming wave of neurotech devices, the truth is that your brain may need a lawyer
Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Be Patient
Alternative Editorial: A Socio-Politics For Our Times
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Consciously replace your deep metaphors - for example, “argument is a war” with “argument is a dance” - and the reality before you changes
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Alternative Editorial: The Real Front Line
Defying norms of beauty or flourishing, body appreciation is a powerful route to sustained wellbeing
After half-a-century, Cindy Sherman is still photographing herself, showing how media (and now AI) splinters our identity
What would Carl Jung tell you to do with your spreadsheet of life goals? Throw it away and embrace the feminine
Don’t just talk about “climate”—zoom into “issues” and “places”, if you want such conversations to be effective. And other wise tips from A Larger Us
Alternative Editorial: We Simply Can't Imagine
How do you embrace uncertainty? Be your own defence lawyer, devise alternatives, have a “can-do” attitude
Could a chatbot be your therapist? At Character.ai, millions of young people are turning to the "Psychologist" for help
"Privacy first! Then - everything else!" Cory Doctorow's suggestion for curing so many of the current internet's ills
Alternative Editorial: Understanding Our Choices
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