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...community and organisation matter, but also less pre-determined because these specifics are highly changeable. It can be difficult to think in scales of global economic tides and social values, but the individual, workplace, family or locality is easier to apprehend and to alter. A political aspect of open methodologies is that they approach methods not in terms of grand...

...communities, describing this as a form of citizen participation. In a lively blog piece one of the authors, Mark Gamsu, stated “I think that there is a strong relationship between the number and quality of volunteers and the effectiveness of work to increase participation.” He may be right (and we certainly need more evidence on the relationship between these two sets...

...communities to adapt. There is now evidence that ecosystems are starting to migrate altitudinally (uphill) and latitudinally (towards the poles) in search of cooler climes. And there is a growing recognition, including from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), that millions of people are now moving home as environmental refugees in response to environmental...