A wonderful cartoon from First Dog on the Moon in The Guardian yesterday captures the essence of our Risks Beyond Human Eyes project. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Learn more about the project in our webinar: unfoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @beingphilt.bsky.social

Who else thinks communities should shape their own healthcare decisions? New animation shows how citizens' assemblies could improve health & happiness in every neighbourhood. Watch our series on community-powered neighbourhood governance. www.right-here.org/neighbourhoo... @theyoungfdn.bsky.social

Forgive the dry name, but the upcoming ‘neighbourhood governance arrangements’ could be transformational in giving us more power over the decisions that shape the places we call home. It's been brilliant to work on this series with @right-here.org @theyoungfdn.bsky.social. Watch below 🎬

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Our new series shows what community-powered neighbourhood governance could look like in practice. The animations launch at a pivotal moment, as the government designs new neighbourhood governance arrangements. Watch more: www.right-here.org/neighbourhoo... Animations by @theyoungfdn.bsky.social

Hear it from Christiana Figueres: holding systemic risk and systemic opportunity together can give us the energy to move forward. 1 year ago, Christiana Figueres, @outrageoptimism.bsky.social, spoke at our symposium about taking a systems approach to climate risk. youtu.be/B-246r-noxo?...

If you’re curious about working with non-human perspectives in risk analysis, join our webinar to hear learnings from our project: Risk Beyond Human Eyes. September 24 🗓️ 14:00 BST ⏰ Online 🛜 Register: unfoundation.zoom.us/webinar/regi... @beingphilt.bsky.social @adjuvant.bsky.social

An extraordinary story of transformation is happening in Andhra Pradesh, India. Around 1.8million farmers are transitioning from chemical-intensive farming to natural farming. The impact it's had on farmers, the land, and the climate is really impressive. #APCNF 💫

ASRA@asranetwork.org · 2mo ago

In Andhra Pradesh, India, around 1.8million farmers are putting systems transformation into practice. 🇮🇳 Hit by multiple crises, from soil degradation to water stress, the APCNF program is supporting the entire region's transition to natural farming. Learn more: www.asranetwork.org/srr-series/c...

Excited to go to MOTH Festival this Saturday with @asranetwork.org. We're adding a nonhuman perspective to conversations about how to address the systemic risks facing our world. #morethanhuman

ASRA@asranetwork.org · 3mo ago

The MOTH Festival of Ideas kicks off this week on the rights of nature. Looking forward to conversations on how we de-centre the human & recognise nonhumans as actors with agency. If you’re going, say hi to ASRA’s @adjuvant.bsky.social & @heathernicholson.bsky.social

Today is the last day hereditary peers will be able to sit in the House of Lords. Some will cling on to a seat in Parliament as life peers, but lawmaking by birthright, that ends today. Now for an upper chamber fit for the 21st century. unlockdemocracy.substack.com/p/hereditary...

Hereditary peers to go - this must be just the start

A second chamber that relies on the patronage of Prime Ministers through life peerages is hardly a giant leap forward over the descendants of men given hereditary peerages hundreds of years ago!

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Now in law, the Community Right to Buy is a brilliant win for local people who want to protect the places they love for the good of their communities. Just needs funding and support to ensure people can actually use the Right. See what the Bill failed on and where the next opportunity lies.👇

We're Right Here@right-here.org · 3mo ago

Today, the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill passed into law. It’s a major milestone for our campaign. Here's what it does, and doesn't, deliver for community power. 1/6 🧵

Given the worsening climate and ecological crises facing us, this challenge from @asranetwork.org to consider systemic risk from a more-than-human perspective is very timely and urgently needed. 🐆🍄

ASRA@asranetwork.org · 4mo ago

Can you imagine what risk feels like for a jaguar, a fungus, or a beetle?🪲🍄‍🟫#EarthDay The frameworks we use to assess & respond to risk are strikingly narrow. We begin and end with one species: humans. We challenge human-centred approaches to risk in a new blog: www.asranetwork.org/news/let-the...

Always amazed by how much life on Earth depends on underground fungi – 80% of all plants! From food crops to forests. On #UnderEarthDay, we've got to do better at getting fungi into conservation plans, climate action & biodiversity loss strategies. 🍄 Great take on #EarthDay @spun.earth!

Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN)@spun.earth · 4mo ago

Make this April 22 #UnderEarthDay How can you help? See: buff.ly/msi7bbR Share video Download logo Post on April 22 Use #UnderEarthDay Tag @spun.earth A global call to protect life belowground and conserve the underground fungal networks that sustain life aboveground. 🎵 Cosmo Sheldrake

Innovative approach to tackling rivers in crisis. What would change if we considered other species' perspectives to a river's health and future? 🌊

ASRA@asranetwork.org · 5mo ago

Rivers are in crisis worldwide. To understand what’s wrong, we almost always centre a human point of view. What might we be missing? #WorldWaterDay 22 people. 5 species. 1 river. 'Risks Beyond Human Eyes' explores this question for the River Tone in the UK. www.asranetwork.org/insights/ris...

Planting with @tmhackney.bsky.social brightened the winter days 🌳💚

Tree Musketeers@tmhackney.bsky.social · 5mo ago

We're wrapping up the Winter planting season. Thank you to all the volunteers who took part! The song is the still unreleased ‘watermelon skies’ by BIN RICH, fellow tree musketeers & creatures of the concrete forest! Made from the samples of our very own Hackney parakeets & morning marsh afterglows.

The Museum of Community Futures shares powerful stories of local people across Greater Manchester defying the odds to achieve extraordinary change in their places. 📆 12–14, 19–21 March 📍Factory International & online A Joint exhibition with @greatermcr.bsky.social www.right-here.org/museum-of-co...

Will AI reshape the foundations of the public purse? Can fear be taken into account when managing systemic risk? The February edition of Radically Rethinking Risk lands tomorrow. Sign up: mailchi.mp/4e32e64a25e7...

HIRING: Join our team as a Research Analyst examining the systemic risks of climate change. We’re looking for a researcher to work on a major project focusing on the implications of exceeding the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C temperature goal. Learn more: www.asranetwork.org/news/job-ope... #climatejobs

Job Opening: Research Analyst Systemic Risks of Climate Change

ASRA is seeking a Research Analyst to support a major project examining the systemic risks of climate change, with a particular focus on the scientific, environmental, and Earth system implications…

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As our planet spins into another year, it’s a good moment to think bravely, flexing our imagination, to consider the kinds of changes that lead to transformation. 🐛🦋 Addressing #Systemicrisks creates an opportunity to redesign the systems that shape our lives. Watch ASRA Explores with Shama Karkal.

ACTION: We need your help at a critical moment for #CommunityPower in Parliament. Can you take two minutes to write to Baroness Taylor, asking her to back a Bill that delivers real community power? actionnetwork.org/letters/bcb5... Photo by Roger Harris: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Of...

Great new film by @right-here.org features community leaders taking a temperature check on the worrying spike in polarisation and division in our country. Their message is clear: give communities the power to fix 'broken Britain'.

We're Right Here@right-here.org · 10mo ago

Our new film argues that community power is the antidote to division and democratic decline. Give communities the power to fix broken Britain from the ground up. 🎥 Watch and share. Read the story behind the film: www.right-here.org/community-po... Film by @tuz0.bsky.social

💔 The Museum of Broken Dreams opens in Parliament this September, telling the stories of bold community-led projects blocked by red tape and bureaucracy. 🎟️ Invite your MP to visit and see first-hand the lost potential in our communities. Use the email template: actionnetwork.org/letters/invi...

Today, over 350 community leaders delivered a stark warning: our democracy is in crisis. Ahead of the anniversary of last year’s riots, we handed in an open letter to No.10 warning that without action to address widespread feelings of disempowerment, we could see more social unrest. 🧵 1/3

📣 Calling all community organisations: If you want more #CommunityPower, sign our letter to the Prime Minister. Our campaign leader, Sacha Bedding, has written an open letter urging the government to grant more power to local people. ✍️ Will you sign the letter? actionnetwork.org/petitions/co...

Christiana Figueres' tip for thinking about systems: Have a spider web in your head when looking at a system to understand which threads are being pulled and remember that it’s constantly a dynamic. We can't control a system, we can only influence & understand the interconnections. 🕸️

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Christiana Figueres, former UNFCCC Executive Secretary & co-host of climate podcast @outrageoptimism.bsky.social called for leaders to be both humble and courageous at ASRA's #CurrentsofChange symposium this morning. Watch a clip from Christiana's brilliant speech. 📽️

Really excited to be at the #CurrentsOfChange symposium with the lovely @asranetwork.org team today. The SuperFUTURES exhibition and Marshmallow Laser Feast artworks are looking incredible.

ASRA@asranetwork.org · last yr.

We’re excited to open the doors to our #CurrentsOfChange symposium today! Over the next couple of days, 250 people from diverse disciplines and 50 different countries will gather together to attempt to better understand #SystemicRisk & surface ways to do so. Watch this space for the highlights.

📣 Just launched: Our new case study collection—8 powerful, real-world responses to systemic risks from grassroots action to cities. From Amsterdam to Zimbabwe, discover diverse and practical approaches to tackling #SystemicRisks.

From Benches to Boardrooms: Responding to systemic risks

To guide this work, ASRA’s Systemic Risk Response (SRR) Working Group co-developed a comprehensive set of assessment criteria that is grounded in ASRA’s Principles for Systemic Risk Assessment and…

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'Disconnection from and domination over nature and people' is one of the major drivers of #BiodiversityLoss and nature's decline (IPBES report). Love this blog by @tom-oliver.bsky.social via @asranetwork.org on restoring our sense of connection with nature for a safer and happier future 🌍.

ASRA@asranetwork.org · last yr.

This #EarthDay, a special edition of The Rethink explores why reconnecting with nature is essential to addressing today’s systemic risks. Written by ASRA Network member @tom-oliver.bsky.social, who sees "nature-centrism as a crucial systemic risk response." 👉 www.asranetwork.org/news/the-ret...

Great day with an inspiring bunch. A lot of powerful stories told in the room. #CommunityPoweredPolitics

We're Right Here@right-here.org · last yr.

Last week we met in Birmingham and left fired up to make community power a reality! ✊ Communities are transforming where they live, but many stories go unheard—or don’t get past page one due to red tape. With every story shared, our campaign grows stronger. Share yours: www.right-here.org/share

I loved talking to @hendricksonclaude.bsky.social about his dedication to community-led housing. Read his interview on @right-here.org's blog.

We're Right Here@right-here.org · last yr.

“How can we be part of a solution, whether it’s housing, health, or community centers? Community power allows us to actually be a lead partner in delivering solutions.” Read an interview with @hendricksonclaude.bsky.social, a drumbeater for community-led housing

Exciting to see our campaign gain momentum in Parliament! This morning, we spoke with MPs in Parliament about shifting decision-making closer to communities. Our community champion Hannah Sloggett reports from Westminster.👇 #CommunityPoweredPolitics