Practice

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.

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.

AI is a hot topic- but will it work?

Sadaf Rasheed04 Jun 2024

Sadaf Rasheed reflects on the role that AI might play in solving problems of litter and incomplete data and whether it can empower community action to address these.

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.

Wanted – freelance mentor for AI and community action lab

Mary Stevens27 Nov 2023

We are looking for a freelance mentor to support our upcoming lab on AI and community action.

AI and community action – invite to join our experiments lab

Mary Stevens15 Nov 2023

Join us for a 3-month practical learning journey exploring how communities can use AI to work together to address environmental challenges in their neighbourhoods.