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Kevin Parker

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

Europe’s Second Genesis: The Audacious Plans for Rewilding a Continent

The air in Portugal’s Greater Côa Valley, thick with the scent of rockrose and wild lavender, held a charge of anticipation. In 2024, a...

Maeve Goddess of Sovereignty and Feminine Power in Irish Mythology

In the lush, verdant landscapes of Ireland, a profound legacy resonates through the ages, embodied in the figure of Maeve, or Medb, an ancient...

Alan Watts: Man Suffers Only Because He Takes Seriously What the Gods Made for Fun

The quote "Man Suffers Only Because He Takes Seriously What the Gods Made for Fun" is attributed to Alan Watts, a British philosopher known...

Sacred Geometry: Unlocking the Secrets of the Universe

Sacred geometry involves the study of geometric shapes and patterns found throughout the natural world and in various spiritual and religious artworks and structures....

Blueprints of the Cosmos: Engineering the Supercollider of the Future

In humanity’s ongoing quest to unravel the deepest mysteries of the universe, particle physics stands at the threshold of a transformative era. The proposed...

The Mysterious World Hum: Investigating Causes, Theories, and Coping Strategies

The phenomenon known colloquially as the "World Hum" constitutes an intriguing yet perplexing auditory experience characterized by a persistent, low-frequency humming sound, typically perceived...

Blessings to All Beings: A Loving Kindness Meditation Practice

1. Preparation: Find a quiet space where you won't be disturbed. Sit comfortably on a cushion, chair, or floor with your spine straight. Close your eyes gently...

Metta in Bloom: Loving-Kindness and Its Healing Touch

Image by John Hain via Pixabay In the stillness of meditation, a simple wish arises: May you be happy. May you be safe. May you...

The Quantum Heart: How Energy, Emotion, and Intention Shape Our Destiny

The intricate dance of energies that pervades the cosmos has fascinated humanity for millennia, drawing interest from poets, philosophers, scientists, and spiritual leaders alike....

The Healing Power of Laughter: Why It’s More Than Just a Smile

Laughter is a universal human experience, transcending cultures, ages, and languages. While often regarded as a simple expression of amusement or joy, contemporary research...

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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...