Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the...

Barcelona Superblocks: The Radical Battle for Quiet, Green Cities

Inside Barcelona's radical push to reclaim streets from cars. How the superblock grid battles noise, heat, and tourism to recover Cerdà's vision.

The Great Entanglement: Navigating Humanity’s Polycrisis at the Dawn of the AI Age

The Age of Overwhelm The feeling is now familiar, a low-grade hum of anxiety that accompanies the morning scroll. A headline announces another record-shattering heatwave, the image of a cracked riverbed searing itself onto the mind. A swipe reveals a new regional conflict flaring, its geopolitical tremors felt thousands of miles away. Another swipe: a breathtaking breakthrough in artificial intelligence that promises to remake society, followed immediately by a stark report on rising global inequality. The screen glows with a...

The Atomic Bodhisattva: The Life, Work, and Legacy of Joanna Macy

“Active Hope is waking up to the beauty of life on whose behalf we...

The Tragedy of Avian Flu: Charting the Panzootic That is Redrawing the World’s Flyways

News Update As of late October 2025, the H5N1 avian flu crisis has entered a...

The Large Language Model Landscape of February 2026

The Permian competition tightens: pruning, agentic browsers, and the energy bill becomes law. February 2026 doesn’t feel like...

One Minute Zen Meditation Technique: Unlocking Calm by Counting to Five

In our fast-paced, demanding world, the idea that a profound sense of peace can be found by simply sitting and breathing can seem almost...

The Unfolding Lotus: A Scholarly Inquiry into the Classical and Extended Chakra Systems

Introduction: Mapping the Subtle Body Within the vast landscape of Eastern philosophies, few concepts have captured the modern imagination as profoundly as the chakra system....

Blessings to All Beings: A Loving Kindness Meditation Practice

1. Preparation: Find a quiet space where you won't be disturbed. Sit comfortably on a cushion, chair, or floor with your spine straight. Close your eyes gently...

Forest Bathing: The Ancient Japanese Practice of Shinrin-yoku

I have studied Shinrin-yoku and picked-up a Diploma in the practice along the way, so a modality close to my heart. Being in nature...

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The Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

The Living Marsh Feature · The Living World The world’s remaining wetlands, the work they do for the planet, and the intelligence of water At first light,...

Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the world to operate a fully electric public bus fleet. In...

World Environment Day 2026: Climate Action – Why It’s Still So Hard — and What Works

Clean energy is booming, yet emissions keep breaking records. A clear-eyed 2026 look at climate action—what's working, what's failing, and what it will take.

Barcelona Superblocks: The Radical Battle for Quiet, Green Cities

Inside Barcelona's radical push to reclaim streets from cars. How the superblock grid battles noise, heat, and tourism to recover Cerdà's vision.

The Large Language Model Landscape of May 2026: The Architecture of Alignment and Narrative Ethics

May 2026 LLM Landscape: AI becomes vital infrastructure, forcing a pivot to narrative ethics as global challengers disrupt Big Tech's oligopoly

Bogotá, Colombia: Mobility as Democratic Space

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 8 Every Sunday, Bogotá returns the streets to its people. That act — repeated for fifty years, in a city...

The Great Unraveling: A Requiem for the Democracy?

Global democracy is in a high-velocity retreat. Explore the 2026 V-Dem data on systemic autocratisation and blueprints for democratic resilience.

Seoul, and the Return of Water

GREEN CITY SERIES| ARTICLE 11 How river daylighting changed the argument in South Korea’s capital — and why the harder work of a green city...

Curitiba, Brazil: The Classic Model Revisited

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 9 For fifty years, urban planners have travelled to Curitiba to study what happened when a young architect-mayor decided that...

Gaia’s Great Turning: A 50-Year Climate Reversal Blueprint (2025–2075. Updated)

This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last year. Regrettably, all is not well in the golden valley...

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Barcelona Superblocks: The Radical Battle for Quiet, Green Cities

Inside Barcelona's radical push to reclaim streets from cars. How the superblock grid battles noise, heat, and tourism to recover Cerdà's vision.

Greening Oslo: Discipline of the Possible

How Norway’s capital turned climate policy into budgets, procurement, and quieter...

The Sapphire Empire: A Chronicle of Britain’s Blue Belt and the Resurrection of the Wild

Introduction: The Map and the Territory The ocean is a memory. It remembers the iron taste of the harpoon and the heavy drag of the...

Western European Wilderness Lost: Rewilding the Tamed Lands

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent The aurochs' last bellow echoed through Poland's Jaktorów Forest in 1627, marking Europe's first recorded megafaunal extinction.¹ This wild...

Marine Wilderness: The Blue Heart of Earth

Marine wilderness is vanishing fast—climate, overfishing, pollution, and mining threaten ocean life. Indigenous wisdom and bold protection offer hope.

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Modern Slavery in the Twenty-First Century

Is modern slavery surging, or just better counted? Inside the contested 49.6 million figure, forced-labour supply chains and the new trade crackdown.

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Let there be peace in the world

I have been a peace activist since my early teens, over 50 years now, probably haven't tried hard enough it seems! I am publishing...

The Divergent Paths of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung

Listen to our Deep Dive to get some insights into the articles content I. Introduction Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung stand as monumental figures in the...

John Muir: The Making of an American Conservation Prophet

John Muir (1838-1914) stands as a monumental figure in the American consciousness, a presence as towering and enduring as the granite cliffs of Yosemite...

The State of Global Fish Populations: Crisis and Conservation in the World’s Waters

The Ocean's Vanishing Wealth The world's fish populations stand at a critical juncture, caught between ecological collapse and conservation hope. With 37.7% of assessed marine...

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The Ubiquitous Empire: An Exploration of the World of Ants

The World of Ants: a ubiquitous empire of 20 quadrillion individuals. Explore their evolution, superorganism colonies, specialized societies, and ecological impact as global engineers.

Transcending Humanity: An Exploration of Transhumanism’s Core Concepts and Implications

On a quiet morning in the not-so-distant future, a human being wakes to the soft hum of a neural implant seamlessly delivering the day’s information directly to her brain....

The New Architecture of Trust: Blockchain’s Journey from Financial Rebellion to Civilizational Infrastructure

On January 3, 2009, an anonymous programmer mined Bitcoin's Genesis Block, embedding within it a newspaper headline: "The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks." This...