This event was part of the “Cities for Change” summit, a 2-month online program showcasing world-changing ideas in digital and interactive events for “building a just, sustainable and equal society from the ground up”. The “Transition Talks” section happened from May 24th until May 28th. This was the 4th “Transition…

Welcome and thanks. Good morning, everybody. Let me start by offering a warm welcome and thank you to all those that are here today at ECOLISE’S 8th official General Assembly, our 2022 GA. I’d like to offer a special welcome to those for whom this is their first GA. Normally…

Irish & Portuguese developing a conversation together. Lovely to see stronger links forming between Portugal and Ireland this week. As part of the #patricksday goings on, Irish ministers go to various countries of the world to meet and greet. But thanks to a series of factors, our #GAA club was…

On 23 April, I was invited to speak at the “Social Solidarity Economy & the Commons” (SSEC) event; “The Future of Urban Commons” with Jay Tompt from Totnes REconomy practitioners & Jonathan Dawson, head of #RegenerativeEconomics at Schumacher College (which was set up by a true hero of the planet Satish Kumar) and former President of Global Ecovillage Network (GEN), whose vision I am hoping to build upon for the PhD; how to build on the ecovillage methodology to transform our big, messy, contemporary cities. I’m delighted to be invited to contribute with such dreamers & do’ers.

We urgently require Transformational Politics in response to where humanity finds itself today; Climate and Biodiversity Emergency (IPCC, 2018) that could possibly lead to societal collapse (WATTS, 2019). This chapter identifies New Networks of Governance as the base of a growing Transformational Politics, based around increased levels of citizen participation…

Duncan Crowley delivered the following presentation at the SCORAI (Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative) Webinar Series 2020–2021. The presentation lasted 30 minutes, followed by a Q+A session for 30 minutes. The main presentation was divided into 2 sections. Video of the presentation is found here. The 1st PDF is…

The Portuguese Network for Doughnut Economics had its Kick off meeting with loads of energy on March 23rd 2021. After posting on the DEAL website and sharing on social media, 150 people registered and just short of 70 people participated in a 1,5 hour public event to explore potential for Portuguese citizen-led groups to transform their territories from the bottom up. A month previously (February 26th) Kate Raworth was…

(Walking toward life, with joy / work in progress…) A guiding question asked within the Regenesis dialogues was “What does it mean to be indigenous again today?”. Far from giving answers, this question opens up a very wide and deep dialogue about what is, what was and what could yet…

UrbanA, ECOLISE and Communities for Future joined forces to lead an experimental seed session on the first day of the amazing The Nature of Cities Festival (with online discussions on the #TNOCFestival hashtag). About 25 people turned up from different corners of the planet, on Monday 22nd of February 2021…