If we're to overcome climate paralysis and inactivity, hope will come from the youth and civil society, say Christiana Figueres and Kevin Anderson
BEHAVIOUR, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, PLANETARIAN, PLANET Apat kaneChristiana Figueres, Kevin Anderson, climate crisis, climate emergency, climate breakdown, united nations
Vandana Shiva, Robert Pirsig, Robin Wall Kimmerer, Einstein and others speak on the inner change that system (and climate) change requires
This Global Tapestry Of Alternatives is building across all continents, a step-by-step “network of networks”
Understanding time - how different it is for individuals and cultures - may be the key to the race against climate change
If we want to align “artificial intelligence” to humanity, let us recognise and value our “animate intelligence”, suggests Jeremy Lent
If we only "know" through science and rationality, we deny the "sensuous knowledge" of many other parts of our world (and our bodies), says Minna Salami
To think at the level of a planet, and our responsibility to it, we may need some “Big History” to guide us
Alternative Editorial: From Delos, a politics of the future engages all the senses
A/UK EDITORIAL, PLANETARIAN, BIG PICTURE, LEARNING, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANET A, TECHNOLOGY, REGEN ECONOMIES, GLOBALISTS, FUTURESpat kanedelos, world human forum
We know about the "planetary boundaries" we must live within. But here's a new "health barometer" for the earth: "safe" and "just" limits
Alternative Editorial: Making Peace
A/UK EDITORIAL, BIG PICTURE, ARTISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, ACTION, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, peace studies, eurovision, europe, Ukraine, Russia, conflict transformaton, conflict
The AI summer keeps going... Meredith Whitaker says worry about corporations, not machine consciousness. And David Wood calls for "singularity activism"
In the move from enlightenment to entanglement, Indy Johar sees a new path through a world in flux
Douglas Rushkoff (and hard science) makes it clear how cultivating awe is the best method for engendering generosity. Which saves the world
Why we need new visual frameworks to help us think optimistically about the future
The sheer, inarguable wisdom of Ursula K. LeGuin, charting human ethical progress from heart to stars
The current burst of AI can seem both extremely weird, and smotheringly banal. Erik Davis maps an enlightened way through
We can grow hope from the seed of trauma - by imagining how better it will be 50 years from now, suggests Andrew Simms
FUTURES, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANET A, PLANETARIAN, BIG PICTURE, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, SOCIO-POLITICS, YES WE CANpat kaneforecasting, Andrew simms, 2073, regenerative
“Free time is when we have the possibility to be fully human. That’s what we’re talking about.” What French protests against pension reform really want
Rachel Donald of Planet Critical delivers a stunning, multidisciplinary take on our multiple crises
Al Gore gets furious with his elite peers, on behalf of youth climate activists around the world, at Davos