Alternative Editorial: Where Gaza Meets Climate
A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INDIVIDUAL, WAR/PEACE, YOUTHpat kanewar, peace, environment, RegenA, young, gen z, masculinity
Prof. Cornel West engages with Edinburgh - delivering the Gifford Lectures, pitching to be President, standing with peace protestors
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
“A post-capitalist, non-rivalrous future in which commons architectures & civic utilities replace state & corporations.” The ambition of Open Civics
YES WE CAN, TECHNOLOGY, SOCIO-POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, PLANETARIAN, MANIFESTOS, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, COMMUNITYpat kanecivic tech, civil society, open source, open innovation
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
What’s the “New Conservationism”? Partly rural Tory voters, electorally embracing the Greens as the saviours of a depleted nature. But there’s more to it
It's startling to map what kinds of AI Big Tech pursues, for profit. What if public good were prioritised? What would we see then?
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
How to write a 20-point Magna Carta for democratic cities—starting in a Rome hotel room
The new First Minster in Scotland faces a crossroads on “green vs. growth” economics. But what’s happening at street-level could be an education
Radical Optimism is Dua Lipa’s philosophy for dealing with life’s chaos – but radical openness is a better approach
Polls and trends are showing that Generation Z may be ready to give up on endless economic growth
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
Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Keep Our Politics Private
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, PARTY POLITICS, POLITICAL CULTURE, SPRING, SOCIO-POLITICSpat kanepublic, private, personal political, party politics, political culture
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
What are “the neighbourhood fundamentals” that can help us adapt to a 3-degrees climate warming? Best to be prepared…