Artificial intelligence, fake images and crumbling trust in our narratives
How do we anchor ourselves in a world in which neither the narratives we are told nor the images we are shown can be trusted?
Society
Fearless Cities: Could we Have the New Municipalism in Greater Manchester?
How can representatives at all levels really learn to listen, and (to use a current buzz word) to co-produce solutions with their constituents – not just members of their own party, but with the full diversity of voices, including those whose starting positions might be difficult to understand or accept?
The Enemy Between Us: How Inequality Erodes our Mental Health
We’ve known for a long time that inequality causes a wide range of health and social problems, including everything from reduced life expectancy and higher infant mortality to poor educational attainment, lower social mobility and increased levels of violence.
Defending Degrowth at Ecomodernism’s Home
In this context, degrowth is the proposal to intentionally shrink the physical size of wealthy economies, whereas decoupling is the hope that growing economies will at last break free from growing resource use and environmental damage.
Community Development and the Commons
What if community development was actually shaped by all members of the community, not just the most privileged and most likely to profit?
Climate Change: Democrats in the Age of Trump
With the odds favoring a Blue Wave in November, it would seem a reasonable time for Democratic candidates and sitting Senators not up for reelection to follow in the footsteps of a political upstart who was courageous enough to take on a powerful incumbent with a message that included climate change and the need to act.
The Social Ideology of the Motorcar
The worst thing about cars is that they are like castles or villas by the sea: luxury goods invented for the exclusive pleasure of a very rich minority, and which in conception and nature were never intended for the people.
Climate, politics and the narrow vision of futurists
“The Future” is a sales pitch designed to keep us locked into existing institutions and power relationships. It has nothing to do with solving our real problems or liberating us from the increasing power of corporations and the governments they have captured. It is, in fact, an elitist vision of a future entirely run by wealthy technologists who find politics and environmental disruption inconvenient.
10 Stories of Transition in the US: Transition Milwaukee and the Victory Garden Initiative
To return this sense of empowerment, food sovereignty, and resilience to the people, Transition Milwaukee helped to launch and incubate the Victory Garden Initiative, which recently celebrated installing its 4,000th garden.
Japan in Transition – Fujino
With Yorozu network as a base, this community has lots of events and chances to see each other, and more and more projects are starting. Feeling the bond with others, people feel like talking to others instead of keeping everything to themselves.
Imagining a World with No Bullsh*t Jobs
Bullshit jobs are ones where the person doing them secretly believes that if the job (or even sometimes the entire industry) were to disappear, it would make no difference — or perhaps, as in the case of say telemarketers, lobbyists, or many corporate law firms, the world would be a better place.
Neoliberalism Drives Climate Breakdown, not Human Nature
The reshaping of the US economy took place during the period covered by ‘Losing Earth’. It was during the decade – 1979 to 1989 – that neoliberalism truly entered the political mainstream. We did not lose the earth in the 1980s. Rather, the tools governments needed to act had be taken from them.
