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Regenerative Agriculture: What the Data Proves (and What It Doesn't Yet)
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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The Citizens' Assembly: How Ordinary People Change Constitutions
Selected like jurors, 99 Irish citizens made possible what politicians had avoided for decades. Deliberative democracy works — here is the evidence, and its real limits.
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"There Is No Alternative" — The Evidence That Alternatives Already Exist
280 million people work in cooperatives. Three basic income experiments have documented their effects. Amsterdam changed its economic compass. The WIR Bank has been financing Swiss SMEs since 1934. Here is the data.
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"Degrowth makes you sick": what the data actually says
80% of our longevity is determined by lifestyle, not genes. Societies that consume less often live longer, with better mental health and more meaning. Here is the evidence.
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"Patents save lives": what open-source biology proves otherwise
AlphaFold made 200 million protein structures freely accessible within months. 100,000 researchers work in the open on the diseases that kill the poorest. Here is how open-source biology is reinventing who benefits from science.
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The AI That Counts Species: When Artificial Intelligence Serves the Living World
300 million biodiversity observations collected by citizens. Algorithms tracking poachers in real time. 200 million protein structures free for the entire planet. The same technology powering our news feeds can also protect life — if we choose what it serves.
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Mondragon at 70: What the World's Largest Worker Cooperative Actually Proves
Founded in 1956, Mondragon brings together 70,000 worker-owners and posts a 97% survival rate over three decades. If the model is this solid, why does it remain marginal?
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The Ocean is Regenerating: The Numbers Nobody Cites
Inside fully protected marine reserves, fish biomass is 670% higher than in unprotected areas. Off California, the return of sea otters increased carbon storage in kelp forests by 5.3%. The ocean recovers — fast, sometimes spectacularly — when given the chance.
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The Commons: How One Billion People Cooperate Without Markets or States
In 1968, Hardin theorised that shared resources inevitably get plundered. In 2009, Ostrom won the Nobel Prize for refuting that thesis with 800 real cases. Meanwhile, 10 million volunteers mapped the entire world for free.
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The Energy Transition: The Curve That Changes Everything
In 2010, solar electricity cost 414% more than fossil fuels. In 2023, it costs 56% less. This reversal, documented by IRENA, is the most important economic fact of the decade — and one of the least known.
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The Rewilding Revolution: How Europe Is Bringing Its Territories Back to Life
Knepp, Yellowstone wolves, English beavers: ecosystems are recovering faster than expected. Evidence is mounting, Europe has adopted a landmark legal framework. This isn't naive optimism — it's data-driven ecology.
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