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Most countries treat forests like a resource. Bhutan wrote a number into their constitution: at least 60% of the country must stay forested. Forever. They hit 70%. They absorb more carbon than they emit. Let’s all be more Bhutan.

Mondragon Corporation, the Basque cooperative federation, has run for seven decades with workers electing management, capping executive pay at roughly 6x the lowest wage and reinvesting profits into the community rather than distant shareholders. Another world is possible.

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Times Square, 2009. NYC trialled closing the space to cars, painted the road, dropped in some lawn chairs and beach umbrellas People used it immediately. Traffic accidents fell. The "temporary" plaza became permanent. You don't always need a huge masterplan to improve a city.

Borneo’s orangutans, Assam’s elephants — wildlife across the world is fighting a losing battle against bulldozers, greed, and habitat destruction. They may fall, but their struggle will remain a painful reminder of humanity’s cruelty towards the planet.

Free Stores exist in over 30 countries. No prices, no profits, no barter, no "what can you offer me?" You take what you need and give what you can. The People's Free Store in Boston provides furniture, clothes, books, all free, all the time. Another world is possible.

Our beaver wetland after weeks and weeks of hot, sunny, dry weather. It hasn’t rained since May. This place is now an oasis of sun-dappled pools and canals in a ribbon stretching about a mile along the valley. Beavers truly are nature’s magicians.

Peter Thiel's secretive network Dialog planned a WWIII strategy retreat in Ireland: 220+ guests, a NATO commander, Trump officials. Activists occupied the hotel, jammed its phones, protested for weeks. The venue cancelled. Power needs rooms and staff; we can deny them these.

You cannot write a better storyline. 20-year-old Lionel Messi giving a 5-month-old baby a bath in 2007 - the two met for a charity photoshoot organized by UNICEF. That baby grew up to be Lamine Yamal. Messi 🇦🇷 and Yamal 🇪🇸 will compete for FIFA World Cup 2026 championship.

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Something inspiring is happening in Albania and even @DUALIPA is talking about it. The Flamingo Revolution started as a protest against Jared Kushner's resort being pushed through at the expense of nature. Now it's a youth-led, nonviolent uprising against a failing 2 party system

A movement that doesn’t achieve all its goals at first may prove to be successful in the long view.

Kefaya ("Enough") rose in 2004-5 to challenge Mubarak, something no-one had dared do publicly in Egypt for decades. By 2008 it was over, apparently a failure. But it trained organisers and broke the fear. In 2011, many of its veterans were in Tahrir Square when Mubarak fell.

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The erasure continued after death. His statue, erected in Paris in 1912, was destroyed by the Germans in WWII and never rebuilt, unlike others. So let’s remember him on this Bastille Day.

The French Revolution’s early years saw genuine anti-racist victories: Black legions formed in 1790, full citizenship for free Black people in 1792, and in 1794 France became the first government in history to abolish slavery outright and grant full citizenship to the newly freed

The cure for cancer isn’t in the AI data center, it was in the forest cut down to build the AI center

This 82 year old man explaining his regrets & how he’d live his life over again might change how you view your life forever…