Activism
Year: 2025
FTS PUBLIC AND PLANETARY HEALTH
Permaculture Design Solutions
The art and science of Permaculture provides knowledge, experience, and proven models from working in the most challenging environments across the globe. By Alan Enzo, Permaculture Education The recent and ongoing uptick in the occurrence of natural disasters, wildfires, mudslides, desertification, […]
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Reinventing Production
Transforming from Extraction and Exploitation to Collaboration and Co-Creation “We are witnessing the emergence of a suite of new technologies that have the potential to revolutionize our production system. This new system, enabled by these technologies, is fundamentally different from […]
Humanity Rises
Howard Bloom to Inspire and Empower the Next Generation of Scientific Thinkers
Scientific thinker and author, Howard Bloom to reveal how a new and scientifically more-accurate perception of life and nature can bring us towards a more empowered, healthier and prosperous coexistence Bloom to deliver closing addresses at “Transformed: How to create […]
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How and WHY systems thinking will restore health, prosperity and abundance
We’ve been taught the world is a set of separate problems, not a system of interdependencies. But narratives can be rewritten. And systems can follow. In the last decade, a quiet revolution has begun. It’s happening on farms, in […]
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From mass consumerism to active citizenry
We’re Told We’re Consumers. But We’re Actually Citizens. Why it matters: For decades, governments, corporations, and even media have framed humanity as consumers — passive recipients whose primary role is to buy, click, scroll, and spend. But that frame […]
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Why is Warners/Discovery for Sale?
It’s true that lots of coverage of Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) lately focuses on the bidding war — Netflix, Paramount Skydance (and even Comcast) jockeying to acquire it — but there’s a deeper story: why WBD has gotten to the […]
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The Great Reinvention: What you can do where you are NOW.
Dear World, As the corporate, Industrial-Aged world tries to maintain their stranglehold on public services, an entirely new world is being born. This might very well be the greatest time for reinvention that humanity has ever had. And why is […]
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How to create the future when the world is upside down?
Mobilized Solutions Wire: See the world as it is — and what it can become Big picture: The world isn’t short on solutions — it’s short on access to them. The Mobilized Solutions Wire connects people to what works so communities can replicate […]
Investor Relations
The British IR Society Best Practice Awards 2025 Ceremony
The prestigious annual ceremony celebrated the achievements of companies that demonstrate their commitment to ensuring the best possible relationship with investors. The final list of winners is announced here: IR_Society_Winners_2025 Self-entries awards: Best Communication of Sustainability Best Innovation in IR Best Corporate […]
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Restorative Justice Councils: Healing Democracy at the Community Level
Local restorative practices are replacing punitive models with dialogue, accountability, and community-centered conflict resolution. Why it matters Punitive systems fracture communities, deepen inequality, and fail to address the root causes of harm. Restorative Justice Councils flip the script: instead of […]
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Cooperative Economics as Democratic Practice
Worker co-ops, credit unions, and mutual aid networks are embedding democratic decision-making directly into the economic system. Why it matters Democracy often stops at the workplace door. Most people spend the majority of their waking hours under economic structures where […]
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Rights of Nature & Ecological Democracy
Communities are granting legal rights to rivers, forests, and ecosystems—reshaping governance around interdependence, protection, and shared stewardship. Why it matters Modern governance treats nature as property—something to extract, own, or manage. But ecosystems don’t operate that way. They are living […]
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Transparency by Design: Opening the Black Box of Power
Cities are adopting open budgets, open contracting, real-time dashboards, and public algorithm audits to rebuild trust through visibility. Why it matters People don’t distrust government because they know too much — they distrust it because they can’t see what’s going […]
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Data Dignity & Community Tech Stewardship
Communities are reclaiming agency over their data, digital identities, and infrastructure through local clouds, mesh networks, and data trusts. Why it matters Big Tech built an internet that extracts more than it empowers. Your clicks, identity, location, and relationships are […]
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Youth-Led Civic Innovation Labs: Democracy for the Next Generation
Teens and young adults are co-creating civic apps, climate councils, and storytelling collectives that modernize how democracy works. Why it matters For decades, young people were treated as “future leaders.” But the crises they face — climate, inequality, digital harms […]
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Indigenous Governance Models: Leading With Reciprocity
Indigenous nations are demonstrating consensus-based governance, guardianship councils, and sovereign decision-making rooted in relational ethics. Why it matters At a time when political systems are polarized and trust is collapsing, Indigenous governance models offer something rare: decision-making grounded in […]
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Community-Owned Media: Information as a Commons
Local media co-ops, youth creators, and fact-checking networks are rebuilding trust through community-powered, context-rich reporting. Why it matters Corporate media consolidation, clickbait economics, and algorithmic polarization have hollowed out local journalism and eroded trust. Community-owned media flips the script: […]
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Neighborhood Democracy Hubs: Democracy as a Public Service
Libraries, community centers, and maker spaces are becoming civic labs for debate, voting access, and community problem-solving. Why it matters Democracy works best when it’s close to home. But for millions, civic participation still feels distant, complicated, or intimidating. Neighborhood […]
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Citizens’ Assemblies: Everyday People, Extraordinary Governance
Randomly selected residents are helping cities make fairer, wiser decisions on climate, housing, justice, and the future of democracy. Why it matters Most people feel excluded from political decision-making — and for good reason. Elections alone can’t solve complex, long-term […]
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Participatory Budgeting: Communities Take the Wheel
Residents are directing public spending and reshaping local priorities with transparency, trust, and shared decision-making. Why it matters Democracy isn’t just about elections — it’s about who decides what gets built, funded, or ignored. Participatory budgeting (PB) flips the […]
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Restoring Democracy From the Ground Up
Design for Life: How Communities Are Rebuilding Democracy From the Ground Up The big picture: Democracy isn’t collapsing everywhere. In many places, it’s being redesigned—locally, collaboratively, and in plain sight. Across cities, towns, and Indigenous territories worldwide, communities are […]
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The Systems Lens: Materials, Energy, Food & Health
What if the reason our solutions feel disconnected… is because our problems are connected? What if climate change, polluted water, unhealthy food, economic stress, chronic disease, and broken infrastructure aren’t separate crises — but symptoms of the same underlying system? […]
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Circular Justice: Black & Brown Communities Leading the Regenerative Future
What if circularity wasn’t just about recycling… but about justice? What if eliminating waste also eliminated toxic burdens, environmental racism, and the economic violence that has been dumped on Black, Brown, and frontline communities for generations? What if circular systems […]