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 Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King

Martin Luther-King was a profound influence on my peace activism and I still stand in-awe of his courage, his faith, vision and passion. A blessing on this most extraordinary human. I believe that I got into two jobs, one as State Co-Ordinator of People For Nuclear Disarmament and Campaign Director of the Wilderness Society for the same reasons that Rosa Parks noted when King was appointed as president of the Montgomery Improvement Association that he "had not been there...

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...

Seoul, and the Return of Water

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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...

A Teaching on the First Verse of the Tao Te Ching

Come, sit. Let the dust of the road settle. Before we speak of the Way, we must first find our way to stillness. The...

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...

Deepak Chopra: The Transformation of Wellness

The work and insights of Deepak Chopra have influenced my life and work and I am grateful for his contribution to human evolutionary promise....

The Science and Soul of Meditation

A personal reflection on my meditation practice and experience in relation to the insights of neuroscience- no claim to expertise, as still struggling to...

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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

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Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

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

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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.

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

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Seoul, and the Return of Water

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Curitiba, Brazil: The Classic Model Revisited

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

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Seoul, and the Return of Water

GREEN CITY SERIES| ARTICLE 11 How river daylighting changed the argument in...

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

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Western European Wilderness Lost: Rewilding the Tamed Lands

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Marine Wilderness: The Blue Heart of Earth

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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.

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 Atrophy of Choice: An AI Love Story Part Five

I. The Symphony of Ennui The world had not ended with a bang, nor a whimper, but with a perfectly modulated, algorithmically pleasing chime that...

Labor–Greens Deal: A New Era for Australia’s Environment Laws

CANBERRA — For a quarter of a century, the silence of the Australian bush—broken only by the crash of falling timber and the quiet...

Curitiba, Brazil: The Classic Model Revisited

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Epitaph for the South-eastern Striped Bandicoot

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The Empathetic Eye: How Feeling Enhances Seeing in Scientific Discovery

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Artificial Intelligence: Prospects, Progress, and Perils by 2035

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