A company can go to court. A river can't. Brontie Ansell of Lawyers for Nature is working to change that — giving the natural world a voice in law, in policy, and even inside the company boardroom.
A digital agency in Finsbury Park, London, owned by the people who do the work — where decisions are made by consent, the profits fund a community, and now that "being good" has gone mainstream, standing out is its own kind of problem.
Professor Vera Zamagni on the constitutional article that's shielded Italian cooperatives since 1948, why small firms and cooperatives coexist rather than compete to the death, and why she thinks artificial intelligence — not politics — is now the bigger threat.
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A company can go to court. A river can't. Brontie Ansell of Lawyers for Nature is working to change that — giving the natural world a voice in law, in policy, and even inside the company boardroom.
A digital agency in Finsbury Park, London, owned by the people who do the work — where decisions are made by consent, the profits fund a community, and now that "being good" has gone mainstream, standing out is its own kind of problem.
Professor Vera Zamagni on the constitutional article that's shielded Italian cooperatives since 1948, why small firms and cooperatives coexist rather than compete to the death, and why she thinks artificial intelligence — not politics — is now the bigger threat.
Cherry Haynes and Siôn Whellens of Calverts on hiring sceptics, refusing to compete on price, and why control matters more than ownership.
Scotland has become the first country in the world to write community wealth building into law. But what does that mean for the places where people actually live and work — and can a framework like this hold against the pull of global capital, data centres and footloose investment?
This deep dive explores their innovative approach to ownership, pay equity, decision-making, and resilience in a capitalist world.
I wanted to share some ot the non-fiction and fiction books I've been reading recently, and would recommend to anyone who hasn't yet come across them.
Conventional business practices are choices, and are not the only means by which success and growth can be achieved. The means of production can be owned by the workers instead of the capitalist class. The surplus produced by a company can be shared among the workers who sustain it.
Prevailing narratives, while embraced by many and forces to be reckoned with, are not rigid, static things. They can and do change constantly.
Telling the stories right on our doorstep has the potential to have incredible impact on the critical issues of our time, while also reducing or avoiding the challenges and pitfalls that so often come with exploring stories within communities of which we are not a part.
As documentary storytellers we are uniquely placed to inform and influence through the work we produce. However, our practice should not be limited to simply sharing stories — doing little else but informing others.
Human-centric stories can be incredibly compelling and inspire people to take action, but when exploring them we must ensure we are not inadvertently contributing to the very issues we are documenting and seek to address.
Our urbanised, industrial societies rely on order – or at least the perception of it. They rely on things happening as they are expected to. The further away from an urban centre I travel, the more I witness the fraying of ordered society, as it becomes less and less feasible to maintain.
