Neighbourhood Care: The nursing model where better care costs less - Buurtzorg
Jos de Blok started Buurtzorg in 2006 with one team of nurses and no managers. It now runs around 900. He says doing the right thing costs the system less.
Solutions
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Corporation tax: How you know if a company is good or bad, regardless of its size
The Fair Tax Foundation created the world's first Fair Tax Mark. Paul Monaghan and Jaime Boswell on why celebrating the companies getting tax right may do more than naming the ones that don't.
Written into the constitution: How Italy nurtures and protects its co-ops
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.
Exploring Community Wealth Building with Neil McInroy
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?
Inside Europe's largest equal pay workers' co-operative
This deep dive explores their innovative approach to ownership, pay equity, decision-making, and resilience in a capitalist world.
Another way is possible: Businesses and economies can serve people, rather than the other way round
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.
Maren Krings - photojournalist and climate impact storyteller
Maren Krings is a German freelance photojournalist and climate impact storyteller whose work seeks solutions to socio-ecological impacts to help mitigate the current climate crisis.
Michael Snyder - Documentary photographer and filmmaker
This week I’m speaking with Mike Snyder – a documentary photographer and filmmaker based in Charlottesville in the US. In his work, Mike explores the dynamic relationship between environmental and cultural change.
On the horizon
The climate crisis is propelling us into uncharted territory, and our relationship with technology and nature will dictate how we navigate our way through.
Damon Gameau - Documentary Film-maker
Damon Gameau – award-winning documentary film-maker, and the person behind a recently released feature-length documentary on climate change called 2040.
Lo-TEK
Designer and author Julia Watson describes the things she saw during a recent trip to Beira, Mozambique, as “the future of climate change”.
Toby Smith from Climate Visuals
I’m really happy to share with you a conversation I had with Toby Smith – an award-winning environmental photographer, and Programme Lead for Climate Visuals.