Shaping AI for good

Development of generative artificial intelligence (AI) is advancing faster than civil society’s ability to manage its impacts. How can we make responsible use of this emerging technology, whilst respecting planetary boundaries and supporting impacted communities to shape their own futures? 

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Moving money for the planet

Switching your bank account, savings, pension or your ISA to a greener financial provider could make a huge difference to the fight against climate breakdown.

In collaboration with our friends at Huddlecraft, we piloted a programme aimed at making it simpler for women to take climate action with their personal finance.

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Ageing well in a changing climate

Our population is undergoing a profound demographic shift.  

Old age often reflects the consequences of a lifetime of inequality: how can we support those most at risk from rising temperatures whilst making the most of older people’s skills and capacity to shape solutions? 

 

Grassroots experiments in AI

What happens when you put AI tools directly into the hands of community activists? Through a hands-on lab, a buildathon, and an ongoing creative pilot, we’re finding out — and the answers are reshaping what we think grassroots AI could look like. 

 

 

Beyond disinformation - setting a positive agenda for climate action

In the age of generative AI and hate-powered algorithms disinformation is spreading fast. We’re supporting local campaigners to get ahead of misleading information in their local communities and tell positive stories about climate action.  

 

Human + Machine: How we started exploring AI for good

Back in 2018, we set out from near-complete ignorance to understand what AI could mean for a campaigning organisation like ours.

This is what we found and what it shaped. 

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Past projects

Postcode gardeners

To tackle climate emergency we need to bring back nature at a global and local level. 

But how can we go about doing that in our local area?

We piloted a project in East London aimed at bringing people together to build a more connected community around gardening.

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Local Nature Innovation Fund

How micro-grants seeded a better link to nature for local communities and strengthened social connections and wellbeing.

 

 

Earth Echoes 

 Nurturing our ability to imagine more possibilities has never been more important. Earth Echoes uses sound to unleash imagination and reconnect with nature. 

Does deepening a relationship with nature build a desire to protect it?

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Re-imagining the green belt

The "green belt" is an area of land around a city on which building is restricted. 

Many of the UK's green belts are poor-quality farmland. And lots are underused by the very people who could benefit from getting closer to nature.

This scheme aims to improve green belts around the country and open it up for everyone to access.

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Kale Yeah!

How can loyalty schemes be used to change people's habits?

This scheme, taking place Portsmouth University, encourages students to eat less meat by offering one free meal if they buy 6 vegetarian or vegan meals at their canteen.

Find out how it works – and whether your canteen could do something similar.

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How do you find more land for trees?

How we came up with a new mapping tool to help identify suitable land for tree planting and increase the UK's tree cover.

 

 

 

Miles Better

We wanted to encourage the idea of shared car use and boost locally-owned power generation. 

One of our experiments was to support a social enterprise to adopt a community owned electric car and explore whether it could be powered by local renewable energy.