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.
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.
Harnessing AI for environmental justice
Mary Stevens10 Oct 2024
Mary Stevens explains how our Greening AI project will support environmental justice organisations in developing an ethical approach to new AI technologies.
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.
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.
Can AI help re-enchant us with our neighbourhoods?
Ruth Hennell06 Jun 2024
Ruth Hennell shares her experience of exploring how Large Language Models (LLMs) can help us perceive as non human beings.
Using AI to visualise the impact of our local environmental action
Joanna Watson21 May 2024
Fenella Corrin talks to Joanna Watson about her reflections on our recent AI Lab and how she’s taking her idea forward.
Can AI make local environmental action more effective?
Joanna Watson22 Apr 2024
We report on how grassroots participants are experimenting with AI to address local environmental challenges.
Sound - a key to collective imagination
Joanna Watson08 Apr 2024
Joanna Watson and artist Adah Parris explore the role of sound art in forging a closer relationship with nature and place.
What next for Money Movers?
Mary Stevens25 Mar 2024
What we’ve learned over the past 5 years delivering Money Movers with Huddlecraft and why now’s the time to pause and reflect.
An exciting future for Postcode Gardening.
Joanna Watson19 Mar 2024
As the Postcode Gardener programme scales up, Ciaran Biggins and Joanna Watson share reflections as it transitions from its pilot phase.