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The future is not written. Women and men are already building a different world — in their farms, laboratories, communes. Bloomii documents these paths.
"We are not looking for easy optimism that ignores obstacles — that would be wishful thinking. We seek a desirable future that is plausible, given the real constraints of the economy, politics, and human nature."
July 12, 2026 11 min de lecture
80% of the world's rennet has been produced without animals since 1990. The same technology promises dairy proteins with 91–97% fewer emissions — with important nuances on costs, European regulation and patent concentration.
July 5, 2026 6 min de lecture
Individualism as inevitable, cohousing reserved for idealists? Across Europe, tens of thousands of people prove otherwise — with measured data on loneliness, health and life satisfaction.
June 28, 2026 7 min de lecture
Community microgrids for neighborhoods: in Wildpoldsried, Schoonschip, and through Enercoop, villages and neighbourhoods are producing their own electricity — and reinvesting the revenue locally. Nine thousand communities are already doing this across Europe. Real conditions, documented limits.
The same AI that predicted the shape of nearly every known protein is now helping researchers understand the molecular biology of endangered species — from honeybee immunity proteins to poorly studied organisms with no prior structural data.
Born in Boston in 2002, the Village Movement offers a simple model: neighbours organise collectively to enable older adults to stay at home, with mutual services and a solidarity network. The movement has spread to hundreds of cities across the United States.
A mining town in Pas-de-Calais marked by unemployment and slag heaps, Loos-en-Gohelle installed 2,600 m² of solar panels on its municipal buildings. Since 2021, these installations cover 90% of public energy needs and generate €50,000 of energy per year.
One initiative, one minute, on YouTube.
Rewilding, regenerative agriculture, oceans, forests — nature reclaiming its rights.
Technologies that serve life rather than extract from it.
Participatory governance, cooperatives, commons — new forms of the collective.
What living better means in a world that is genuinely changing.
The alternative economic models that are already working.
80% of the world's rennet has been produced without animals since 1990. The same technology promises dairy proteins with 91–97% fewer emissions — with important nuances on costs, European regulation and patent concentration.
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Individualism as inevitable, cohousing reserved for idealists? Across Europe, tens of thousands of people prove otherwise — with measured data on loneliness, health and life satisfaction.
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Community microgrids for neighborhoods: in Wildpoldsried, Schoonschip, and through Enercoop, villages and neighbourhoods are producing their own electricity — and reinvesting the revenue locally. Nine thousand communities are already doing this across Europe. Real conditions, documented limits.
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59% of young people describe themselves as extremely worried about the climate — and those who feel this anxiety engage more politically than those who don't. Science is redefining eco-anxiety: not a pathology to cure, but an adaptive signal to transform into collective force.
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From Alaska to Finland, through Stockton and Kenya, six rigorously documented experiments contradict the myth of dependency. Recipients work more, invest more, and do better.
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The same AI that predicted the shape of nearly every known protein is now helping researchers understand the molecular biology of endangered species — from honeybee immunity proteins to poorly studied organisms with no prior structural data.
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The Social and Solidarity Economy accounts for 10% of French employment and brings together 2.6 million people. From cooperatives to mutual health insurers, the economic alternative isn't a utopia — it's already a discreet pillar of the French economy.
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Wikipedia, Linux, OpenStreetMap: three projects built by millions of people with no single owner. Harvard puts their replacement value at $8.8 trillion. The data demolish the idea that open collaboration cannot work at scale.
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A meta-analysis of 3.4 million people confirms it: social isolation increases mortality risk by 29%. But large-scale programmes — social prescribing in the UK, moais in Okinawa, village movements in the US — prove this epidemic is reversible.
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In 1989, Porto Alegre handed part of its budget to residents. Within ten years: drinking water in 98% of homes, health spending tripled, infant mortality down. The model has spread to 7,000–11,500 cities. The data contradict the received wisdom.
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Born in Boston in 2002, the Village Movement offers a simple model: neighbours organise collectively to enable older adults to stay at home, with mutual services and a solidarity network. The movement has spread to hundreds of cities across the United States.
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A mining town in Pas-de-Calais marked by unemployment and slag heaps, Loos-en-Gohelle installed 2,600 m² of solar panels on its municipal buildings. Since 2021, these installations cover 90% of public energy needs and generate €50,000 of energy per year.
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An ISO 14067-certified lifecycle analysis shows that proteins produced by precision fermentation generate 91 to 97% fewer greenhouse gas emissions than conventional dairy proteins, with 96 to 99% less water consumption.
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In 1999, the Spanish city of Pontevedra pedestrianised 300,000 m² of its town centre and reduced traffic from 80,000 to 7,000 vehicles per day. Result: CO2 emissions down more than 70%, no fatal accident since 2011, and 12,000 new residents attracted to the city.
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The moai okinawa tradition: in Okinawa, about half the population participates in a moai — an informal mutual support group, some of which have lasted more than 90 years. Okinawan women live on average 8 years longer than American women. Social connection is probably one of the decisive factors.
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A study published in 2024 in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems demonstrates that seven agroecological practices all increase carbon sequestration in soils and vegetation — with agroforestry leading at 1.22 t C/ha/yr.
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With 4.4 million euskos in circulation and 6.5 million transactions in 2024, the local currency of the French Basque Country stands as Europe's largest — and a real-world laboratory for short supply chains.
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Contact with nature is often relegated to 'alternative medicine'. Clinical data tell a different story: 21% less cortisol in 10 to 30 minutes, strengthened immune cells, reduced mortality risk. Here is the state of the evidence.
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REScoop.eu, the European federation of citizen energy cooperatives, brings together 743 member organisations in more than 28 countries. These structures allow ordinary citizens to become co-owners of their local renewable energy production.
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The WEGo (Wellbeing Economy Governments) partnership, launched in 2018, brings together Scotland, Iceland, New Zealand, Wales, Finland and Canada around a shared goal: developing public policies that measure wellbeing rather than growth alone.
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A B Lab Europe study covering 7 European countries shows that between 2019 and 2022, 76% of certified B Corp companies recorded revenue growth, compared to 60% of non-certified companies. During the COVID crisis, they were more likely to maintain their activity.
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The bhutan happiness index — known as the Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index — has, since the 1970s, measured national happiness across 9 domains and 33 indicators. The index rose from 0.743 to 0.781 (2010–2022). Discover what half a century of alternative GDP shows.
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In November 2024, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation counted more than 1,000 organisations — including companies representing 20% of global plastic packaging and more than 50 signatory governments — committed to a shared vision: that plastic never becomes waste.
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Preliminary results from the world's largest study on universal basic income, published in December 2023 by GiveDirectly, show no disincentive effect on work: recipients invest more, become more entrepreneurial and earn more.
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A study published in 2025 in Global Ecology and Conservation measures the effect of wolf reintroduction at Yellowstone: the volume of riparian willow crowns increased by 1,500% between 2001 and 2020. The trophic cascade is one of the strongest ever documented.
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Regenerative agriculture is not an ideological niche — it's a documented shift in business model. 70% higher profitability than conventional farms (PeerJ 2018), 1.22 t C/ha/yr sequestered (Frontiers 2024). With the honest obstacles.
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In central California, the return of sea otters increased kelp forest cover by 57.6% and raised the carbon storage of these ecosystems by 5.3%. A study published in PLOS Climate in 2024 documents this cascade mechanism — one animal, two climate benefits.
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Recognised as a discipline of preventive medicine in Japan since 2004, forest bathing (shinrin-yoku) is documented by precise physiological measurements: increased NK cell activity and anti-cancer proteins, lower blood pressure, anxiety and depression scores. Cortisol effects remain uncertain according to the most recent evidence.
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A study published in PLOS Medicine in 2022 modelled the impact of a sustained dietary change on life expectancy. Switching from a typical Western diet to an optimal diet at age 20 extends life by 10.7 years for women and 13 years for men.
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According to the World Cooperative Monitor 2025 of the International Cooperative Alliance, 280 million people — 10% of the world's active population — work in a cooperative. One billion people are members. This alternative economic model is in fact one of the most widespread on Earth.
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