This is a great piece by Dan Hill that looks for traces of Kohei Saito's degrowth manifesto in a series of community initiatives in Japan's Kagoshima prefecture fojournal.org/article/readin…

Again, we need to be imagining low-energy futures, not just energy-guzzling ones

* Donella Meadows plea for 'bioregional learning centers', UPDATED fojournal.org/essay/donella-… "In this previously unpublished text, the renowned systems thinker sets out a vision for bioregional learning centres. Four decades on, we provide a critical annotation from today’s

Joe Biden could stop the genocidal war in Gaza with a single phone call, just like Reagan stopped Israel’s invasion of Lebanon. That’s because Israel is fully dependent on US funding and US weapons for everything it’s doing. #Debate2024

My last blog post for UKRI was on ‘the museum as catalyst’. This one is on the different levels of design impact, from symptoms to systems and stories

Netanyahu has no business in Congress. He belongs in the Hague. We need to arrest that bastard.

13 years ago almost to the day, Justin McGuirk dedicated his landmark The Guardian column to the great Kenneth Grange (1929-2024) Subtitle: A very British modernist theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

Brazilian rancher ordered to pay $50m for damage to Amazon theguardian.com/world/article/…

En mis 4 décadas de cubrir elecciones latinoamericanas, he visto muchas elecciones amañadas. Pero lo que ocurrió el 28 de julio en #Venezuela tiene toda la pinta de ser la madre de todos los fraudes electorales: bit.ly/3SwMDsd @ELNUEVOHERALD María Corina Machado Tuto Quiroga

The silencing of pro-Palestinian or anti-genocide voices is the reason why this genocide is still going on after 10 months. theguardian.com/education/arti…

Brilliant to see this. Arts and Humanities Research Council support for the museum and heritage sector includes: PhDs and postdoctoral fellows Equipment and infrastructure Exhibition support Digitisation research and the largest single public investment in conservation and heritage science

This is UN satellite data. As many Israeli soldiers and political leaders have openly said, the goal is to make sure people in Gaza have nothing left to return to. This is not a war "against Hamas."

‘The demolitions are equal to death’: the Palestinian families whose West Bank homes have been bulldozed. The Nawajas saved for 15 years to build their house. Now it is razed, along with over 2,000 more since 7 October, under a huge expansion of illegal Israeli settlements

My essay this morning in The Guardian's fabulous "long read" on impressions from a recent visit to Israel theguardian.com/world/article/…

It is beyond belief that the government has still not ended arms sales to Israel. What on earth are they waiting for? This shameful cowardice must be called out for what it is: complicity in genocide.

Return of the grand narrative? In this blogpost I make the case that design can do more than merely slow down the production of carbon/plastic/waste, and build alternative narratives with a more-than-human worldview futureobservatory.org/news/justin-mc…

"Bioregions are the natural geography of sustainability”. I learned that from Robert L Thayer 21 years ago in this book - which is still in print. abebooks.fr/9780520236288/…