Why an ageing population is an environmental justice issue
Joanna Watson15 May 2025
This article summarises a recent exploration carried out by the Experiments Team on the implications of an ageing population and why it matters to Friends of the Earth.
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.
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.