A Fairer, Greener Scotland
What opportunities, and risks, does government participation offer to the Scottish Green Party? And what will happen next?
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Overcoming Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘three evils of society’
In this spirit, let us set forth with truth, love and justice as our guides, mourning the cost of needless harm while nurturing the promise of radical transformation.
Let us move, in a word, from despair to beloved community.
Challenging the myths of empire: An interview with Priyamvada Gopal
The documents of victimisation and exploitation are also the documents of agency and resistance – even if, of course, so much has been lost to history.
Intercultural Urbanism: City planning from the ancient world to the modern day
What I would like to talk about is what we learn from prehistory about intercultural urbanism, which I essentially define as theory and practice of planning and design that respects differences in ways of living, dwelling, being, belonging and even remembering in the city.
The promise and perils of democracy
Lets go back to basics. Democracy = demos + cracy, rule of (or by) the people. The power to take decisions is inherent to each one of us, it is part of being human.
Malaysia’s fateful choice as land crisis looms
A MAJOR economic and societal catastrophe may soon confront one of Southeast Asia’s most important economies: Malaysia.
Democratizing Access To The Tools For Transformation
In the face of accelerating social and environmental breakdowns, how can we build our collective capacities for transformation to bring about a just, inclusive, and regenerative society for all?
Walkability and the culture wars
Even if you do take this study’s results at face value, it’s a stretch to interpret its major takeaway as, “Most Americans don’t want walkable places.”
Thinking Ecological Democracy with Benoît Lechat
Rather than clinging to the conviction that policies can satisfy everyone, the ecological transition should be institutionalised through a new conception of democracy that widens participation.
7 Aspects of Civilizational Transformation
In her maturity, the true environmentalist visualizes the seriousness of the current situation and assumes the need for a radical and profound change, for a civilizational transformation.
Experiencing the Wrath of Ida and the Bliss of Gaia
I am Gaia. So are you. It’s just a matter of remembering. And strangely enough it felt like remembering was a little easier during the power outage.
Taking (democratic) control of one’s own traffic
The fundamental focus in this book is traffic, meaning the movement of people and goods along streets and roads, which is literally the lifeblood, the circulatory system, of any urbanized space.
