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...
Peace & Nuclear Issues

The Silent General: The Algorithm of War and the Need for Boundaries

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AI warfare: autonomous weapons, cyber attacks, and algorithmic targeting transform modern conflict. What moral boundaries must we establish before war becomes fully automated?
Green Cities

Greening Oslo: Discipline of the Possible

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How Norway’s capital turned climate policy into budgets, procurement, and quieter streets — and...
Climate Change & Solutions

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

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This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last...

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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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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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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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...
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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...
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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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Singapore: Engineered Nature in a Tropical City-State

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 4 Singapore has spent sixty years turning...
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Green Cities

Seoul, and the Return of Water

GREEN CITY SERIES| ARTICLE 11 How river daylighting changed the argument in...
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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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The Transformative Power of Prayer

Introduction: Prayer as a Universal Spiritual Language Prayer is one of humanity's most enduring and universal spiritual practices. Across religious traditions and cultures, it functions...
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Epitaph for the South-eastern Striped Bandicoot

Earth Voices - News in brief — 10 October 2025 IUCN has officially listed the South-eastern striped (southern barred) bandicoot (Perameles notina) as Extinct (EX)...
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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...
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Transformative Effects of Sound on the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Sound healing, sometimes also referred to as vibrational medicine, is a practice that uses the power of sound and its vibrations to restore one's...
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Biodiversity & Conservation

The Living Marsh: The World’s Remaining Wetlands and the Intelligence of Water

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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,...

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Sustainable Living

Responsible Digital Parenting: Navigating the Challenges and Embracing the Opportunities

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Mindful digital parenting balances risks and opportunities, fostering healthy habits, empathy, and resilience in children.
AI & Machine Consciousness

AI Existential Risk: Why Tech Leaders Can’t Agree on Artificial Intelligence Safety

AI’s future splits: some predict utopia, others extinction. Tech leaders clash over safety, ethics, and control as harms already emerge.
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AI & Machine Consciousness

Justice and Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Listen to our short podcast overview of this article's content if you are short of time The intuitive appeal of utilitarianism as an ethical framework for artificial intelligence (AI) is...
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Consciousness & Spirit

Introduction to World Religions: A Journey Through Spiritual Traditions

This essay introduces a comprehensive series exploring four of the world's major religious traditions and their enduring impact on human spirituality. The human quest for meaning transcends cultural boundaries, historical...
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