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  • News This DeepMind AI helps polarized groups of people find common ground. It’s being nicknamed the Habermas Machine, Daily Alternative (Oct 17, 2024)
  • News From Asphalt to Inspiration: The Student-Led Transformation of America’s Schoolyards, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 04, 2024)
  • News Why Diversity Is Not Enough, Alternative Editorial (Jul 21, 2024)
  • News The Plurality Is Here, Alternative Editorial (Jul 14, 2024)
  • News How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves, dialogue.earth (Jul 11, 2024)
  • News "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)
  • News Senegal’s remote Bassari people talk about climate change, and how their local knowledge is key to coping strategies, theconversation.com (Jun 11, 2024)
  • News Right to manage a Brazilian state park celebrated by fishing community, news.mongabay.com (May 28, 2024)
  • News 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)
  • News Launch of a new political project from the Alternative Global— SPRING, Alternative Editorial (Mar 01, 2024)

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  • News 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)
  • News We Have To Build The Alternative To War, Alternative Editorial (Nov 05, 2023)
  • News 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
  • News 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)
  • News How to host: Stress-free communal eating, Wicked Leeks (May 15, 2023)
  • News How Gdańsk is reclaiming its industrial waterfront, The Conversation (May 11, 2023)
  • News 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.
  • News 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]

  • News 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)
  • News ‘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
  • News The Grassroots to Global Reckoning – Part 2, undp.org/acceleratorlabs (Jul 14, 2022)
  • News 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)
  • News Cities need to be redesigned for the climate crisis. Can they make us happy, too?, theguardian.com (Mar 28, 2022)
  • News Local citizens’ assemblies in the UK: a second report card, constitution-unit.com (Mar 25, 2022)
  • News Cities must listen to people to find solutions for climate impacts: stories from Cape Town, The Conversation (Feb 14, 2022)
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Created February 10, 2017 by Phil Green
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