There is a pluriverse of alternatives, movements of radical transformation, across the planet. What if they “outscaled” together?
This Global Tapestry Of Alternatives is building across all continents, a step-by-step “network of networks”
Stanford has conducted the world's first "global deliberative poll"--on how to regulate bullying and harassment in VR and the metaverse
COMMUNITY, SOCIO-POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, POLITICAL CULTURE, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, GLOBALISTS, PLANETARIAN, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONpat kanemetaverse, virtual reality, virtuality, social contract
You don’t want a “deadlihood” - you want an “alivelihood”. In Gandhi’s spirit of swaraj, here’s a new approach to education and work from India
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
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
ACTION, WAR/PEACE, SOCIO-POLITICS, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, FEMININE, GLOBALISTS, PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, MASCULINEpat kaneauthoritarian, sexism, regime
New and improved constitutions can be top-down affairs. But in Latin America, the process is often crowdsourced. What can we learn?
To think at the level of a planet, and our responsibility to it, we may need some “Big History” to guide us
With the vast majority of their profits coming from oil & gas, these aren’t “energy companies”. They’re still *fossil fuel* companies
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
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
We know about the "planetary boundaries" we must live within. But here's a new "health barometer" for the earth: "safe" and "just" limits
"Solastalgia" describes the loss that land-dependent communities feel when their place is violated. They command the Wellcome Collection in June
Women's unpaid global labour - household, shopping, forms of care - comes to £8.8 TRILLION
The British Chinese takeaway needs defending - a product of the movements of people, foodstuffs and ideas across borders
Is AI squeezing the life out of data-capturing human workers in the south? Or is it a new, evolved form of life itself? Noema debates itself
At this year's Venice Bienalle, one of Europe's great art events, decolonisation of the mind is the main theme
The Climate Majority Project, says Rupert Read, will build citizens' confidence to act for the planet, where they are
Jumping through hoops, dwelling on free will, free women in Iran: some audio-visual to cleanse your lens
None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use