Green Cities

Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

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GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more...
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Shenzhen, China: Electrifying the Megacity

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GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 10 In 2017, Shenzhen became the first city in the...
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Singapore: Engineered Nature in a Tropical City-State

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GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 4 Singapore has spent sixty years turning a cleared island into a green city, and the results are, in many respects, extraordinary. But the question the city-state now faces is different from the ones it has already answered: how do you make a highly managed, deeply unequal ecological showpiece into a city that is genuinely resilient — for everyone who lives in it? The otters arrived without permission. In a city where almost nothing happens without...
Biodiversity & Conservation

Epitaph for the Butterfly Bandicoot: Nullarbor Barred Bandicoot

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Earth Voices News in brief —October 2025 IUCN has listed the Nullarbor barred bandicoot (Perameles...
Deep Ecology & Environmental Philosophy

The Testament of the Oak

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Part I: The Long Inhale of Being The Dream within the Seed Before the first root,...

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...
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The Architecture of Inner Peace: Building a Sustainable Meditation Practice

Introduction: The Radical Act of Stillness In an age defined by perpetual connectivity and information overload, the search for silence has become a radical act....
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The Tender Gravity of Kindness: An Ancient Virtue and Its Modern Science

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, the poet Naomi Shihab Nye writes, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing....
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The Gentle Monk Who Taught the World to Breathe: The Enduring Legacy of Thich Nhat Hanh

The highly respected Thich Nhat Hanh, a Vietnamese Zen master, teacher, and peace activist who passed away in January 2022 at the age of...
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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....
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Shanghai, China: Sponge City on the Delta

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 12 Shanghai is sinking. The city centre has subsided more than three metres since the late nineteenth century, while the...

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...

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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.
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Bogotá, Colombia: Mobility as Democratic Space

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 8 Every Sunday, Bogotá returns the streets...
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The Sapphire Empire: A Chronicle of Britain’s Blue Belt and the Resurrection of the Wild

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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...
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Western European Wilderness Lost: Rewilding the Tamed Lands

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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...
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Marine Wilderness: The Blue Heart of Earth

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Marine wilderness is vanishing fast—climate, overfishing, pollution, and mining threaten ocean life. Indigenous wisdom and bold protection offer hope.
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Vandana Shiva’s Challenge to the Monoculture of the Mind

Introduction: The "Gandhi of Grain" in a Contested Field Listen to a summation of this article with our Deep Dive crew. "Vandana Shiva: Deconstructing the...
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The Global South and the Fight Against “Extractive” AI

As we step into 2026, the global landscape of artificial intelligence (AI) is marked by a growing resistance in the Global South against the...
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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...
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The Global Transition to Renewable Energy: Navigating the Decisive Decade

Executive Summary The global energy system is in the midst of its most significant transformation since the dawn of the industrial age. A powerful, technology-driven...
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Biodiversity & Conservation

Poaching of African rhinos down but other threats drive lose

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Press Release Gland, Switzerland, 7 August 2025 (IUCN) – Poaching of African rhinos has decreased since 2021, but the gains have been offset by other...

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The Prismatic Covenant: The Enduring Symbolism of the Rainbow

Part I: The Phenomenon and the Mythic Imagination An Arch of Light and Wonder Few natural phenomena have so universally captivated the human imagination as the rainbow. It is an event...
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A Green and Pleasant Land? Charting the Past, Present, and Future of Great Britain’s Environment

Introduction The identity of Great Britain is inextricably linked with its landscape. The phrase "green and pleasant land," borrowed from William Blake's evocative poem, conjures images of rolling hills, ancient...
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Cultural Evolution & Values

The Architecture of Joy: A Scientific and Soulful Guide to a More Joyful Life

Listen to our Six-Minute Deep Dive to get the core of this long, but very useful, article! Beyond Happiness Building Your Architecture of Joy and Resilience In our contemporary world, we...
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