Exploring ageing population with AI: Insights into workshop design, facilitation & participation
Christian Graham24 Nov 2024
Christian Graham shares his learnings from using AI to explore a new topic.
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.
How might we influence AI for good?
Mary Stevens23 Aug 2023
Mary Stevens ponders on where the power lies to influence the future direction of AI for the good of planet and people.
Can we use AI to help solve the climate and nature crises?
Mary Stevens23 Aug 2023
In this first blog post from a series of four, Mary Stevens explores the outputs from our recent design lab on generative AI. If you are interested in collaborating on any of these ideas please get in touch.