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Kevin Parker

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

Women’s Wisdom on Environmental Philosophy

Women have played pivotal yet often underrecognized roles in shaping environmental philosophy from its inception through contemporary discourse. From Ellen Swallow Richards' pioneering...

Algorithm for Two: An AI Love Story

Part I: The Great Firewall of the Heart Introducing the Titans: Aetherion & NexusCore In the sprawling digital ecosystem of the mid-21st century, two colossal entities...

From Walden to the World: Transcendentalism Lessons for a Planet in Peril

How Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Whitman, and Alcott Illuminate Contemporary Environmental Philosophy Introduction In an era of unprecedented environmental crisis, the philosophical foundations for ecological thinking and...

50% Conservation by 2050: A Survival Pact for BRICS and Australia

Few doubt that as a species we are at a crossroads. We can carry on stumbling along capitalism's blind trajectory as our planet's precious...

The art of creating Japanese zen gardens

Japanese zen gardens represent humanity's most refined attempt to distill nature's essence into contemplative spaces that serve both aesthetic and spiritual purposes. These minimalist...

The Urgent Need for the Rapid Expansion of the Global Marine Parks Network

The ocean faces an existential crisis requiring immediate, large-scale protection through marine parks. With 37.7% of fish stocks overfished, 11-14 million tonnes of plastic...

Greenpeace: Microplastics in Geneva Air

Press Release 11th August, 2025 - Geneva, Switzerland — A new Greenpeace International investigation confirms that airborne microplastics are present in the urban air...

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...

The Ocean Floor Under Siege: An Investigation into the Global Deep Sea Trawling Industry

I recall watching Attenborough's 'The World About Us' series on a black and white TV as a child back in the late 1960's, he...

The Prismatic Covenant: The Enduring Symbolism of the Rainbow

Part I: The Phenomenon and the Mythic Imagination An Arch of Light and Wonder Few natural phenomena have so universally captivated the human imagination as the...

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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 2019, its entire taxi fleet followed. These are not incremental improvements or pilot schemes — they are structural transformations, achieved at a speed...

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 of nine million at 2,600 metres above sea level, in a country still reckoning with decades of violence — is both a practical...

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 lies beyond one celebrated stream Few urban projects have entered the global planning imagination as forcefully as Seoul’s restoration of the Cheonggyecheon. The removal...

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 a city was not, fundamentally, for cars. What they found was real, was replicable, and was also — when examined carefully — more...

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

This is an updated and revised version of a piece that I published last year. Regrettably, all is not well in the golden valley of apricots when it comes to climate change reversal, it just keeps getting hotter and the weather wilder. All is not lost though...

The Friction of Progress: Why the Global Climate Transition is Catching Up to Markets, but Lagging Behind the Earth

In May 2026, the international climate arena presents a striking paradox. It is alive, highly active, and structurally transformed, yet it remains profoundly underpowered relative to the physical systems it seeks to govern. The institutional architecture established by the Paris Agreement has not collapsed; on the contrary,...

London. Clean Air, Congestion, and Retrofit Burdens

GREEN CITIES SERIES  |  ARTICLE 6 London has done something that most cities only talk about: it has used road pricing to change behaviour at scale, and it has used air quality regulation to drive a measurable improvement in the health of nine million people. But the city...

Greening Oslo: Discipline of the Possible

How Norway’s capital turned climate policy into budgets, procurement, and quieter streets — and why even Oslo is not yet a finished green city Standfirst Oslo is often invoked as proof that urban decarbonisation can move from aspiration to administration. The Norwegian capital has electrified large parts of its...