Recycling and waste - can we learn from past innovation?
Mary Stevens11 Mar 2025
Bristol resident Mary Stevens reflects on how innovative thinking and practical solutions can help cities tackle intractable problems.
Harnessing AI for environmental justice – what next?
Mary Stevens05 Mar 2025
We share initial reactions to our paper Harnessing AI for Environmental Justice, reflect on feedback and set a challenge to AI users in the sector.
Darwin’s AI: What happens when technology locks in its era’s values?
Christian Graham04 Mar 2025
Christian Graham suggests that as much as AI can drive change, it also risks locking in the assumptions and priorities of the era when it was built.
How can we make AI work for environmental justice?
Mary Stevens12 Feb 2025
Mary Stevens shares an update on how our Greening AI project has identified 7 principles to guide environmental justice campaigners in developing an ethical approach to AI.
Can AI help us better connect on a human level?
Mandy Porter10 Dec 2024
Mandy Porter reflects on the development of a new prototype AI designed to foster group working.
Mainstreaming innovation culture
Christian Graham02 Dec 2024
Christian Graham shares some learnings on gentle culture change.
Using AI for workshop design, facilitation and participation
Christian Graham24 Nov 2024
Christian Graham shares his insights into using AI to explore the topic of ageing population.
Find out how you can use your money to save the planet
Mandy Porter31 Oct 2024
Mandy Porter talks about the launch of our new Money Movers hub and why we’re making resources freely available to you.
Big Ideas, bold conversations on AI
Mary Stevens and Christian Graham15 Oct 2024
We share the Experiments Team’s AI journey with a packed house at Green Tech South West and explain how we might work together.
Learning from experimenting at the grassroots
Christian Graham08 Oct 2024
Christian Graham identifies key things we've learned about effective community engagement through our experiments at the grassroots.
How futures thinking powers our vision for change
Christian Graham05 Oct 2024
Christian Graham explains how Friends of the Earth uses futures thinking to create different scenarios to help us develop strategies for change.
How we use AI for innovation
Christian Graham03 Oct 2024
Christian Graham explains how the Experiments Team uses AI to support our work and why it’s important to be mindful of ethical considerations.
Creating the conditions for a successful culture of innovation
Christian Graham12 Sep 2024
Christian Graham shares an approach to fostering an innovation culture developed at a recent gathering of the Innovation for Impact network, based on the Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs model.
Human+ : Aligning tech with human and planetary well being
Christian Graham co-written with former CEO Hugh Knowles09 Jul 2024
We outline key ideas for a positive vision for technology that's embedded in social and environmental values and seek your help to refine our approach.
Can AI help when thinking about local food futures?
Joanna Watson18 Jun 2024
Afreen Saulat talks about how AI can help thinking about local food insecurity and food waste, inspired by a recent AI and Community Action Lab.