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The Global Citizens’ Assembly Deep Dives on Food and Climate
What do people around the world want from the future of food? Explore what emerged when citizen deliberation, lived experience and wider participatory practice were brought into conversation with one another.
Our public services are in crisis. Rochdale’s Good Help Movement holds the key to solving it
While public services struggle nationwide, Rochdale has quietly built a different model — one rooted in trust, prevention and community that is improving lives while costing remarkably little.
Global Citizens’ Assembly to tackle the future of Food and Climate
People from more than 60 countries with a wide range of incomes, ages and backgrounds are gathering for the first Global Citizens Assembly on the future of food systems – with their findings due to inform the next annual climate talks taking place in Turkey.
Not all democracy is good - it’s time to hone our senses
To meet today's complex challenges, we need to see democracy as a system impacting many aspects of our lives, and be able to distinguish the good from the bad.
How Could We? Build democratic systems that address the polycrisis?
To meet today's complex challenges, we need to see democracy as a system impacting many aspects of our lives, and be able to distinguish the good from the bad.
Make it make sense: the challenge of data analysis in global deliberation
To meet today's complex challenges, we need to see democracy as a system impacting many aspects of our lives, and be able to distinguish the good from the bad.
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