If water is scarce where you are, then long-term thinking is preferred. New research on the link between ecology and culture
Why a planetary commons is better than a global commons, how cities and businesses can respect earth-system boundaries, and more
“We need a life-affirming, up-to-date version of the Mont Pelerin Society: an Ecological Civilization Coalition”, says Jeremy Lent
"Just Transformations" shows grassroots movements for alternative futures arising across the planet
Alternative Editorial: Be Careful What You Wish For
4TH SECTOR, A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BIG PICTURE, COMMUNITY, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTUREpat kanescotland, fractal, ecocivilisation, democracy, deliberation, cosmolocalism
At COP28's end, there are five energy and pollution solutions that will give you a measure of climate optimism
“How do you help the people you love create a future you're proud to leave behind?” Manda Scott’s forthcoming eco-political epic Any Human Power has the answers
Every nuance of AI, awe and charisma anatomised, clean aircraft and hydrogen cells. Noema’s top ten 2023 stories are a ride
“Talk like a human about climate change.” Good advice. But can humans be curious and vision-seeking, as well as loss-averse and fearful?
Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt ‘different’ in the world – and changed the way we think
Could we put boddhisatva values into an artificial general intelligence? And other pertinent Q's put to Sam Altman (and his ChatGPT)
In Sesotho, "fito" means “joining diverse pieces to make one powerful effort”. Fito Networks in South Africa aims at exactly that
Futuristic landfill vs spiritual beings, the mid-level knowledge worker, and abstract-expressionist ants. A/V for an expanded me
Jeremy Rifkin creates the biggest picture: an Age of Progress superseded by an Age of Resilience
We need a “sensuous knowledge”, in Minna Salami’s words, to save the planet. And there are many seeking to characterise it
Alternative Editorial: From Activism To Activation
Alternative Editorial: Deep In Transition
There is a pluriverse of alternatives, movements of radical transformation, across the planet. What if they “outscaled” together?
Alternative Editorial: Incubating Ecocivilisation
4TH SECTOR, A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BIG PICTURE, PLANET A, SOCIO-POLITICS, WE CANpat kaneincubators, ecocivlisation, ecological civilisation, CAN of CANS, jeremy lent, violeta bulc, technology, new media, future being, integration
“You may be able to fool the voters, but not the atmosphere.” The pioneering systems thinker Donella Meadows, profiled by Kate Raworth