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Kevin Parker

Kevin Parker is a long-term activist working on behalf of Gaia, peace and justice

The Large Language Model Landscape in December 2025

How 2025 ends with an open-source surge, sovereign models, and a hard look at AI’s physical footprint. In the first days of December 2025, the...

The Algorithm Will See You Now: Your Doctor’s AI Assistant Can’t Read Handwriting But Might Save Your Life

The first drug ever discovered entirely by artificial intelligence is working its way through human trials as I write this (November, 2025), a molecule...

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...

Labor–Greens Deal: A New Era for Australia’s Environment Laws

CANBERRA — For a quarter of a century, the silence of the Australian bush—broken only by the crash of falling timber and the quiet...

Nature Positive November 2025: Inside Australia’s Historic Environmental Law Overhaul

Executive Summary In November 2025, the Australian Parliament enacted a transformative suite of environmental legislation, fundamentally reshaping the Commonwealth’s approach to biodiversity conservation, project assessment,...

Artificial Intelligence: Prospects, Progress, and Perils by 2035

Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) stands at a pivotal juncture, poised for a decade of unprecedented evolution. This report reflects on AI's projected trajectory by 2035,...

Slow Living: Temporal Resistance in an Accelerated Age

Slow living resists speed-driven society, blending sustainability, urban design, and mindfulness to reclaim time, balance, and ecological harmony.

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

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

Amazonia and South American Wilderness

1. Historical Baseline Pre-1750 Wilderness Extent South America contained 1.7 billion acres of wilderness in 1500—95% of the continent's land area.¹ The Amazon basin alone...

Montessori Education: History, Philosophy, and Current Status

When Revolutionary Observation Transforms Pedagogy In January 1907, something extraordinary unfolded in Rome's impoverished San Lorenzo district—a physician's experimental classroom for sixty slum children would...

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The Law of Laws: Theosophy and the Backbone of Kindness

"Is kindness merely a feeling, or is it a load-bearing structure for society? Kevin J Parker, author of 'The Backbone of Kindness: Restoring Our Oldest Virtue', explores the profound intersection of Theosophy and modern ethics, examining how compassion functions as the 'Law of laws' and the essential backbone of human arrangements."

The Reality of Global Warming

Explore the empirical reality of global warming right now. Uncover accelerating ocean heat, temperature overshoot pathways, and critical planetary tipping points.

Stonehenge: The Machine, the Landscape and the Making of a World

Hawkins's computer was too literal. But his instinct — that Stonehenge handled information — survives every test the sixty years since have thrown at it. An investigation through stone provenance, isotopes, ancient DNA and landscape archaeology, ending with a named, testable hypothesis: the Gathering Engine.

Smart City: The Word Finds an Owner

Cities ran sewers and traffic computers long before anyone sold them the word. Around 2008 “smart” acquired an owner. Four product cities show what it cost.

El Niño Explained: 2026 Impact & the Future Prognosis

Ocean temperatures hit a record 21.1°C in August, out of season. El Niño, climate change and what the hottest sea ever measured means for 2027

The Divine Within: Why I Keep Circling the Idea That the Sacred Is an Inside Job

The divine within: a personal reflection on Jung, mysticism, meditation and prayer, and why I still cannot decide whether the sacred is an inside job.

Commissioning Curiousity: Retraining the Our Social Media Echo Chamber to Serve Up Variety

Retraining Spotify revealed how AI recommendation algorithms narrow us — and why commissioning curiosity, not searching, is the literacy of the age.

The Compass and the Cosmos: Sacred Geometry

Sacred geometry, examined: the real history behind the ten forms, what nature actually does, and what physics has found in the shape of the universe.

The Greening of Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Riyadh is planting 7.5m trees and running a new metro against an Expo 2030 deadline. A look at the water, heat and money behind the desert city's greening

Ocean Plastic Pollution: Is the Tide Finally Turning?

Ocean plastic pollution is falling: 39% less on Australian coasts. The data, the clean-up technology and the policies proving change is possible

The Backbone of Kindness: Rekindling Our Oldest Virtue in Troubled Times

Kindness is not niceness. Kevin J. Parker argues it is civilisation's load-bearing structure—the backbone on which coexistence depends