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- This DeepMind AI helps polarized groups of people find common ground. It’s being nicknamed the Habermas Machine, Daily Alternative (Oct 17, 2024)
- From Asphalt to Inspiration: The Student-Led Transformation of America’s Schoolyards, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 04, 2024)
- Improvising The Future, Alternative Editorial (Sep 01, 2024) — What is this moment in time?
- Why Diversity Is Not Enough, Alternative Editorial (Jul 21, 2024)
- The Plurality Is Here, Alternative Editorial (Jul 14, 2024)
- How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves, dialogue.earth (Jul 11, 2024)
- "Nepal convenes the world system. There is no omniscient narrator, no possible third person." A report on the latest World Social Forum, Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2024)
- Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
- Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
- What might a parallel polis feel like? David Bollier’s idea of a “commonsverse” - a world in which commons are viable & valued - could tell us, Daily Alternative (May 24, 2024)
- Resist The Devil We Know, Alternative Editorial (Apr 14, 2024)
- Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)
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- Bletchley declaration: international agreement on AI safety is a good start, but ordinary people need a say – not just elites, theconversation.com (Nov 07, 2023)
- We Have To Build The Alternative To War, Alternative Editorial (Nov 05, 2023)
- This Northern Manhattan Wetland Has Faced Climate-Change-Induced Erosion and Sea Level Rise. A Living Shoreline Has Reimagined the Space, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 03, 2023) — In the process to create a climate-resilient city, the shoreline restoration of one of the largest remaining wetlands in Manhattan has succeeded due to community engagement and consistent stewardship. By Juanita Gordon
- Here Comes Everyone: XR's strategy for 2023-24 aims sees strengthening communities as the path to effective climate protest, The Daily Alternative (Jun 04, 2023)
- How to host: Stress-free communal eating, Wicked Leeks (May 15, 2023)
- How Gdańsk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront, The Conversation (May 11, 2023)
- Proportional representation is the most popular form of democracy for countries in the world today., electoral-reform.org.uk (Mar 20, 2023) — There are over 100 countries which use either a Proportional Representation or a mixed system across the world. Less than 50 use the First Past The Post system.
- We like the sound of a "values-based urban living laboratory". It's flourishing in Romania, and is called "OurCluj", The Daily Alternative (Feb 18, 2023)
2022[edit | edit source]
- Facing the dual threat of climate change and human disturbance, Mumbai – and the world – should listen to its fishing communities, The Conversation (Oct 19, 2022)
- ‘It’s a beautiful thing’: how one Paris district rediscovered conviviality, The Guardian (Jul 14, 2022) — It started with an organised ‘bonjour’. Now the ‘republic of good neighbours’ say they want to reclaim the streets
- The Grassroots to Global Reckoning – Part 2, undp.org/acceleratorlabs (Jul 14, 2022)
- Paris's standing Citizens Assembly has real teeth, shaping policy and laws - and is part of a quiet revolution, The Daily Alternative (Jul 04, 2022)
- A New Media Sensibility, Alternative Editorial (May 29, 2022)
- Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2022)
- Local citizens’ assemblies in the UK: a second report card, constitution-unit.com (Mar 25, 2022)
- Cities must listen to people to find solutions for climate impacts: stories from Cape Town, The Conversation (Feb 14, 2022)