"Refuse to play the perfection game... Make room for fruitful monotony". Some ultimate New Year's resolutions from Adrienne Rich, Rilke, Sontag and LeGuin
Play is a rehearsal for complex living. But for modern humans, it's become superplay - our imaginations (light and dark) speedily made real
BEHAVIOUR, BIG PICTURE, ARTISTS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, INGENUITY, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, YES WE CANpat kaneplay, the play ethic, patkane, pat kane, superplay
If it comes to geoengineering to save the biosphere, then think spherical and Brazil-sized. Regard the Space Bubbles Project from MIT
Collins Dictionary has named "permacrisis" as its Word Of The Year. "Metacrisis" would be our contender...
Effective systems change depends on “everyday patterns”. Here’s some beautiful graphics to convey that
Alternative Editorial: The Whole Problem
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, BIG PICTURE, BUILD THE ECONOMY, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, PLANETARIANpat kanesystem thinking, ecological civilisation, wholeness, climate, individuals, community
Alternative Editorial: Playing the Whole System
We need a "library economy", more "third places", and a lot of Studio Ghibli. September's readings from Uneven Earth
Do you want to be a “planetarian”? Then computation will have to be your friend, more than your enemy. Welcome to the Antikythera project
Just imagine if it all went RIGHT by 2084, asks Michael Rogers - a century on from the famous dystopian date
Matthew Green: What the climate movement can learn from collective trauma healing
"Moins de biens, plus de liens!" ("Fewer things, more relations!") The Japanese best-selling sensation that promotes a degrowth utopia
Alternative Editorial: The Era of Self-Sovereignty
A/UK EDITORIAL, BIG PICTURE, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SHAPE THE SYSTEMpat kaneQueen Elizabeth 11, Royal Family, self-sovereignty, response-ability, the people, King Charles, Social justice, youth, environment
Kate Raworth, Jason Hickel and Samuel Fankhauser debate on "degrowth" versus "green growth"
Alternative Editorial: Don't Follow The Leader
Amy Irvine on The Patrescene: "when men hold all the power, humanity fades"
Alternative Editorial: Karen O'Brien on Politics Through A Quantum Paradigm
We had cities and confederacies, governed by consensus and cooperation, thousands of years ago. With tech, what could we build today?
Alternative Editorial: Small Big Thinking
Radio Evolve highlights Michel Bauwens on The Cosmolocal Revolution - and Indra Adnan on the Politics of Waking Up