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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d91d26768284... Guest editorial by @anthlawson1 on How Not To Save The World. Also: not digging 'Digger', the renewables potential of Great British Grid, AI stories (from enabling to cautionary). Posts from www.spring.site. Enjoy, share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/ab2a201379cb... Editorial on how Work From Home creates new space in our lives. Also: @audreyt on letting the people set the AI pace, indigenous governance and Die Linke taking Berlin--& much more... Enjoy, share, sign-up!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/4cf7ef091b27... Editorial on making war obsolete (& reconciling Macklemore & Sheeran). Also: fixers (and darners) of the social fabric, brain-like (& loving) AI, some delightful (& purposeful) memes. Plus www.spring.site. Enjoy, share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/66366cd5cfdc... Editorial (& blogpost) on AIs & the development of self they require. Also: Celtic Alliance is go!, heat is a challenge, psychoecology is a new way to walk--and more (including www.spring.site). Share, enjoy!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/a814b9868a86... Editorial on social metaphors of @AppleTV's Silo. Also: our prez at London's Technoprogressive Opportunity; Ursula Le Guin on Yin-Topia; surveys on increasing kindness--& much more. Scottish posts from www.spring.site Enjoy!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

New Alternative Weekly newsletter out mailchi.mp/8fcf653dd883... Editorial on the Edinburgh festivals, processing the grief of our times. @indraadnan teaching; advising on activist burnout; the progressive Star Trek at 60; and more. www.spring.site posts too. Enjoy & share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

"A populism based on active engagement might be even stronger, if the people themselves are the drivers of the changes they wish to see where they live". Editorial from the new Alternative Weekly: mailchi.mp/f3aeea520f7f...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/da91b6eca7c6... -Editorial on the need for vision. Also: communities aspiring (& fighting fires), "cheated players" fuelling 21stC fascism, and much more. Plus updates from www.spring.site. Enjoy, share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d4e9e311370b... 3 AI stories - how communities are opposing them with data collectives; how China's imply a different worldview; & how they might get us to fight for our common wealth. Also: great 'grams, & land and wind radicalism in Scotland!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

New edition of Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/52deb4c73b54... Editorial on Burnham's devo plans. Blogs: naming climate-crisis emotions, Japan's future party, low-cost "coolth" in hot times, & more. Updates to www.spring.site too. Enjoy! Share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d59581a34715... Editorial on masculinity driving World Cup & the Odyssey. Items on politics of heat, culture & Manchesterism, a dragonfly eye on AI, & more. www.spring.site on batteries & renewables, & "sauna theatre". Enjoy, sign up!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New Alternative Weekly out - editorial on how to realise peace in our time mailchi.mp/5bd128986904... Plenty more on rebel playful youth of Albania & Dehli, on AI tempered (& without bosses), Solstice in the City, & (at www.spring.site) small acts of repair in the Highlands!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

New edition of the Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/b9982f8479ed... regenerating localities in Britain, new sodium batteries, physicists against rearmament, AI and existential dread—and an editorial on the possibilities of data-centre protests. www.spring.site posts too. Share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/34b652ca2a8f... Editorial on the fertile “stramash” coming out of last week’s elections. Also: Is the climate crisis also a crisis of modern men? Two great new books of political integrity. The invention of baddies. And: Raveheart! Enjoy, share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

New elections-ready Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/12b5fcff05ee... Editorial overview of UK elections, with a short www.spring.site manifesto for Scotland. Also: ecocivilisation & democracy, German youth refusing war, citizens directing data centres—& much more. Enjoy, share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/4c0ffe563ec5... Editorial on the revolution required. Posts on: 146 names for a new economy, the huge potential for rooftop gardens, Russian citizens resistance, & much more. Plus news from www.spring.site. Enjoy, share, sign up!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

After Easter, Alternative Weekly’s back mailchi.mp/40179900db2c... Editorial on playing the game of citizenship. Posts on resilience (not Westminster), UNs indigenous forum, Iran’s LEGO-Ganda, working-class greens & much more. Some www.spring.site stories too. Enjoy, share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/f35d62c4c742... Editorial on the mildly radical Oscars. Posts on the unconscious & politics; Theroux & the manosphere; cli-fi, AI and the alchemy of improv & music. www.spring.site stories on Glasgow’s future. Share, support, thanx!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

New Alternative Weekiy out mailchi.mp/2951056b57a9... Editorial on reckoning with AI. Plus: Zurich’s coops solving Europe’s housing crisis; carbon overshoot likely, climate storytelling mobilises youth. From www.spring.site: wind-wealth coming, Glasgow supperclubs here. RT!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

New Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/d76a2d000dc2... Our editorial nails it: “Fascism won’t win”. Also: amazing mutual aid in Minnesota, & a new era for US activism; UK govt’s climate gloom revealed; why tears aren’t to be trusted—& more. + News from www.spring.site Share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

New Alternative Weekly newsletter mailchi.mp/3ddee2991714... Applying advanced democracy, emotional literacy and youthful leadership to the climate crisis; Scottish community wealth building; & what’s “street epistemology”? Also www.spring.site stuff. Enjoy & please share

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

We had a SELL-OUT gig for #PowerShift at Celtic Connections this Sunday—a whirl of song, improvisation, facilitation, poetry and expertise, around the topic of communities and renewables. Let’s take it forward here: www.spring.site/powershift

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

LAST shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event @ Celtic Connections this Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall [Tickets: www.celticconnections.com/event/1/talk... Where we dare to be idealistic & creative about renewable energy again…thru poetry, tech, riffs, improv…

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Final tickets shout for #PowerShift, our “ceilidh theatre” event at @ccfest—on Scottish community empowerment & renewables revolution. A space to recover our idealism, amidst the tensions & errors… This Sun 3pm, 18th Jan, Green Room, Glasgow RCH. Tickets: spring.site/blog/power-s...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Big States & Big Carbon drives us to war & destruction—so we need a #PowerShift, towards communities that seize the renewable energy revolution. But can we imagine it? Let’s try at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00pm, Green Room, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall spring.site/blog/power-s... Pls share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Let’s inject the freewheeling spirit of McTominay into our vision for clean energy communities… At @ccfest], join the Scottish Makar Peter Mackay, futurist Pat Kane, improviser Pippa Evans, NTS founder Simon Sharkey & more. Date, time and location below! Tickets here: spring.site/blog/power-s...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Be part of the #PowerShift at Celtic Connections. Come & imagine better stories of a clean energy future for Scots communities. The crew’s gathering… & now with Scotland’s Makar, Peter Mackay. 3pm, Sunday 18th Jan, Green Room, Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow spring.site/blog/power-s...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

#PowerShift—The Real Energy Question. Sunday at @ccfest Jan 18th, 3.00-4.30pm. Communities all over Scotland are being buffeted—and energised—by the renewables revolution. Come join us to free the power of imagination for Scotland’s future! spring.site/blog/power-s...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

New Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/0ac9c2d03e87... Editorial on new paradigm artivism. Also: what cheap clothes cost the planet; how AI can turn against capitalism; the calming power of the polyvagal nerve—& much more. Details too of our @ccfest event, Jan 18th, 3pm. Come!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

New Alternative Weekly out! Editorial on young men vs. war itself. Also: Integral politics is “deeper, wider, longer”; we need weird stories 4 a warming world; u-lab cultivating planetary coherence—& much more. + spring.site stories. Sign up! mailchi.mp/8df79378f4d0...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

New Alternative Weekly (@AlterGlobal21) - Editorial on what @ZackPolanski could learn from🇩🇰’s @alternativet_. Hybrid working has a viable future; religion can step up to climate crisis; escape from capitalism—& much more. Spring.site too! mailchi.mp/73701d03fbe8...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

New Alternative Weekly mailchi.mp/eb6604f2155a... Editorial on power of locality. Also: scientists declare a national 🌱emergency; how pop can stop eating itself; ‘disillusioned men’ are a worry; what trees can remember; & more. Scots Posts from spring.site too. Enjoy!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Alternative Weekly out now mailchi.mp/33fe551c5145... Editorial on an ecocivilization rising. Also: not copying Danes on immigration, chastening ad-men on fossil-fuels, thots on cooperative AI, solarpunk for real in Africa—& more. spring.site notes from Scotland. Enjoy!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Alternative Weekly newsletter out now! Editorial on the two Zeds (Mamdani & Polanski); Grand Theft Autonomy (gamers on strike); Scots land reform; the frontier of coordination is in the East; & much more. Posts from spring.site. Share, enjoy! mailchi.mp/3900e2d98515...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Latest Alternative Weekly is out now. Editorial on how culture will remove nukes; the rise of cooperative AI; let women do the peace talks; the music video of the year; democratic tech (including karaoke)—and much more. Enjoy, share, support! mailchi.mp/dc7f81f5b17f...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

New edition of @AlterGlobal21’s Alternative Weekly out mailchi.mp/9589dff6bf23... - editorial on a vision for our current wave of protest; “groupcore” for creatives; energy from Heaven; bringing offshore wind home to Scotland; events and more. News also from spring.site

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

New Alternative Weekly out from @AlterGlobal21 mailchi.mp/93f31dc80583.... Editorial on how to beat hopelessness—posts on @audreyt, @KateRaworth, Tim Jackson, Jane Goodall, engaging w/ Reform, the digital “Eurostack”. As well as stories from spring.site. Enjoy, support!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Latest @AlterGlobal21 newsletter - Editorial gets clear on techno-futures, 16-17 year olds curious about new parties (political ones…), renewable energy’s Scottish power plays, hard imagination & new biology, and more. See also www.spring.site mailchi.mp/b6e90dd98158...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

This week’s @AlterGlobal21 newsletter features an Editorial on the “woke right”, and blogs on: grief as THE political emotion; using citizens media to save the Amazon; a new map of the regenerative paradigm; & more. & latest spring.site news mailchi.mp/11620970432e...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

New Alternative Weekly out @AlterGlobal21 mailchi.mp/778e5c1b5dc1... Editorial says plurality is better than singularity. Also: fungi beats carbon, improve yr economic stories, universities reckon with slavery, note the “Free Festival” in Edinburgh—& much more. Support, share!

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Today’s Alternative Weekly from @AlterGlobal21 has an Editorial on reverse mentoring (young to old), Cynthia Erivo queering Christianity, local solar solving South African probs, Edinburgh festivals of Repair, DJs vs climate change. & more! Share, support! mailchi.mp/6330d4fe48e3...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

New edition of @AlterGlobal21’s Alternative Weekly newsletter out now - solar & wind driving strong communities (& cities) in UK/EU, awe-inspiring short films, an Editorial on how AI can deepen democracy… and much more. Enjoy, subscribe, support! mailchi.mp/2b499a81cfe0...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Latest edition of @AlterGlobal21’s Alternative Weekly newsletter - “sacred medicine” & Israel/Gaza, using AI to restore the wonder, 2 Scots’ takes on economics in service of planet & wellbeing, & the alt-power of festivals. Enjoy, subscribe, support! mailchi.mp/769987abce2d...

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Spring @wearespring.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Here’s this week Alternative Weekly newsletter from @AlterGlobal21 mailchi.mp/ec78e62e0e9c... After Left-Right, is it Up-Down? The social club as incubator. Storytelling & jamming keeps London human. Two Scottish www.spring.site stories…& much more. Enjoy, share, support!

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