Gene Sharp is one of the world's greatest thinkers on non-violent revolution. A new award-winning documentary about his life and work, How To Start A Revolution, is now being shown around the world.
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Children have reacted with incredulity after learning the Government has been doling out free money to their parents from the moment their offspring were born.
Will the world end in 2012? What does the Mayan prophecy actually mean? Or is it just the end of an era, of a certain way of life . . . and the beginning of another?
Paddy Ashdown, senior UK Parliamentarian and former High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina, claims that we are living in a moment in history where power is changing in ways it never has before. In a spellbinding talk he outlines the three major global shifts he sees coming...
The clinic was full of gargantuan single men on their own, writes Julia Stephenson. If they hadn’t been so huge it would have been a single girl's paradise. But sleeping with one of them would have been like a heavy door falling on you with the key still in the lock. It's a good job I didn't come here looking for love.
An ingenious scheme in Kenya is using carbon offsetting to fund the provision of clean water to rural communities.
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Creating a new kind of economy is crucial if we want to tackle climate change and avoid the growing social problems associated with the rise of economic inequality. Could 'The Great Transition' point the way forward?