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How To Manage a Constellation

To solve complex and interconnected human-environment challenges, like the death of the Baltic Sea, we need to build ‘social-ecological coalitions’ or ‘constellations’.

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Old Growth

The tale of a furniture giant and the possible ecological happy ending.

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Top Down Nature

An overview of Bordeaux 55,000: a project to explore ‘how best to transform 55,000 hectares (136,000 acres) into natural areas’.

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What Is, Or Is Not, a ‘Green Job’?

Discordant information amplifies confusion about what is, or is not, a ‘green job’.

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The Other Green Economy

People the world over are divided between radically different conceptions of their future: resource-intensive production on the one side, versus regenerative land-based enterprises, and mosaics of micro-enterprises, on the other.

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Love vs Power In Iceland

The imposition of heavy industry onto a fragile ecological-social situation is an easier sell when the alternatives on offer can be portrayed as feeble.

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The Hidden Costs of Tiger Water

We need new ways of thinking about water.

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Why White Is Wicked

While we associate white clothes with cleanliness, the damage done to the environment by the whitening process is very, very dirty.

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Who Is the Arne Jacobsen of Urban Food?

Urban farming is a cool design topic these days – but if we’re to make a serious impact on the global food system, we need to show meaningful solidarity with its victims in distant places, too.

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Istanbul: City of Seeds

Rather than dream up exotic visions of “what could be”, an xskool looks for social and natural assets that already exist – and grows from there.

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‘Beyond Good Intentions’ – The Movie

A new documentary hopes to answer the question "What happens in a disaster area after the initial wave of support?"

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Oil-Powered Thinking

Why is it that countervailing facts don’t change things in our evidence-based world? And what might we do about it?

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