A netwalking discussion for changemakers

How democratic innovation can build trust to unlock and mobilise collective intelligence for meaningful collective action. With Prof Oliver Escobar.

Simple, straightforward tools that you can use right away without training to design and run meetings, workshops etc and get radically better results.

Learn from the experience of an urban farm that helps people and nature to thrive right now, while creating a food system fit for the polycrisis.

I thought I would be disappointed. But I'm now offering to facilitate pro-bono at screenings in Edinburgh.

Exploring the despair and hope in ecological work

Volunteers are monitoring rivers across Scotland. Their data is catalysing action to improve water quality and biodiversity. Hear what works and why.

How to focus on the positive to catalyse social and ecological change, without falling into the hopium trap?

What all changemakers can learn from how Asset Based Community Development helps people turn their lives around

Exploring whether fear for survival motivates action to tackle climate change

Why good work is central to creating a Scotland where people and nature can thrive

Unpacking the concept of 'healing society' amid perceptions of society decline and our role in fostering compassion and cooperation

Questioning sustainability's value amid global crises and re-focusing on nurturing a thriving Scotland

There is so much said in the climate communications sector about the supposed power of stories and storytelling. We are regularly told that we just need to 'sell' a hopeful vision of a 'greener'...

Seeking out positive news stories is often promoted as an antidote to doom scrolling. I’ve tried it, and I continue to do it, but I often find that instead of being inspired, uplifted and given...

I recently read a couple of books about people living in desperate situations. One was an autobiography of growing up in communist Albania, the other the story of a Syrian town under siege by...

In my last post I wrote that our future is so uncertain that we should let go of the mindset of “achieving sustainability” or “saving the world”, with its implication of either success or failure....

> “I’m not sure my work is making a difference” “What can I do that is actually worthwhile?” “I don’t see the point any longer.” “It’s all too little, too late.” I’ve been hearing things like this...