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The soundscape of Yorkshire, AIs having fun with cucumbers, and a beat combo messing with your mind... Playful A/V for you
Despite recent research, we shouldn’t imagine we can speak with whales—just so humanity can soothe its feelings of “cosmic loneliness”
Touching bags as a form of love, a history of men shouting, and stagecraft under lockdown. Some stellar film-essays
"Humans are imaginative activists - all of them, and they have been so for millennia. But we now need to come into our powers", writes Bridget McKenzie
ARTISTS, ACTION, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, FUTURES, LEARNING, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, INGENUITY, SPRINGpat kaneeco-art, cultural politics, museums
"Everything we need to transform our communities already exists", says new book Beautiful Solutions: A Toolbox For Liberation
The Inner Development Goals - relationship to self, cognitive skills, caring for others and the world, social skills, enabling change - are marching on Stockholm
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How do we make the shift to planet-friendly food systems attractive, even cool? Cooking Sections, using art and design, shows us how
ENVIRONMENTALISTS, ARTISTS, INGENUITY, PLANETARIAN, PRACTICE, COMMUNITY, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCESpat kanefood, food politics, locavore
Write a letter to future generations. Or imagine how your region will be. But doom-&-gloom messaging about climate change just doesn't work
ACTION, BIG PICTURE, CREATIVE INDUSTRIES, INDIVIDUAL, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLITICAL CULTURE, PRACTICE, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, SPRINGpat kanepsychology, political emotions, climate emergency
A new campaign wants to redefine the word ‘nature’ to include humans. Here’s why this linguistic argument matters
Alternative Editorial: Post-Capitalism From Home
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PLANETARIAN, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanepostcapitalism, women, private space, public space, transformation, feminine, family
Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach
The "Potteries Pound" is Mike Riddell's newest attempt to create a currency that "values you and your contributions to community"
Batteries - more efficient, cheaper and powerful - will be the "master key" that unlocks a cleaner energy grid
Joe Pease's videos are ontological shocks - all the hidden processes of modern life brought to the surface
Hard work, happy accidents, the pleasures of ritual: why, in a digitally-saturated age, we still love “analogue” tech
Mirror molecules, the soul of a smartphone, and dismissive rave: more audio-visual to reveal what's beneath the surface
Rekindle, Reclaim, Roots... From her Manchester base, Ruth Ibegbuna aims to bridge class, social and cultural divides in the UK
YES WE CAN, YOUTH, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, NEW ECONOMICS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, MANIFESTOS, LAB FOCUS, INDIVIDUAL, COMMUNITY, BEHAVIOUR, LEARNINGpat kaneschools, supplementary schools, manchester, london, Glasgow
We must see our current wars, and our impending climate meltdown, as inextricably linked. Rachel Donald talks to Olivia Lazard
It's a beautiful game. But even more beautiful when it provides a path towards self-mastery for homeless people, as a new movie shows
“The magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time.” Natality lessons from D.H. Lawrence