Friends of the Earth Innovation teamDoes the future feel… unpredictable? You need to experiment.One thing we have all learned from the past few months is that the future is very hard to predict. This is a problem for those of us whose…Jul 6, 2020Jul 6, 2020
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamSeven tips for surviving remote working during the coronavirus outbreak and beyondOur Innovation Specialist, Christian Graham has remotely managed teams for more than a decade and been a home worker in North Wales since…Mar 12, 2020Mar 12, 2020
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamFrom ‘hot spots’ to hope spots: bringing the wildly different green belt to lifeOver the last few months we have been thinking a lot about where to put the trees we need to double woodland cover in the UK by 2045. It’s…Dec 23, 2019Dec 23, 2019
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamUsing Unity and OpenStreetMap to create visions of a greener future in VRVisualising potential landscape and city changes on the local and national level is of increasing interest to Friends of the Earth…Nov 22, 2019Nov 22, 2019
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamWhat if we did it all, in one place? A big idea to bring the future to life in our citiesWhat do the neighbourhoods of the future need to look and feel like if we are to rise to the challenge of the climate emergency in our…Nov 11, 2019Nov 11, 2019
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamWhere are the new ideas coming from? A few pioneers in the tree-cover system.During our last idea-generation sprint back in June, we used a short systems-mapping exercise, based on the three horizons model. One of…Aug 14, 2019Aug 14, 2019
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamHow might we…. double tree cover in the north of the England?Last week Christian Graham, Mary Stevens and Nick Sexton from the our team spent two days up in Leeds, working with our colleagues in the…Jul 18, 2019Jul 18, 2019
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamBuilding the Collaborative Society — some lessons for our experimentsMary Stevens attended Collaborate’s summer event, focused on how we build the collaborative society. Here are some of her reflections.Jun 26, 2019Jun 26, 2019
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamA green belt immersion: notes from the field(s)This post by our Experiments Programme Manager, Mary Stevens, is one in an occasional series of reflections about our design practice…Jun 26, 2019Jun 26, 2019
Friends of the Earth Innovation teamWhy you should do nothing to stop climate changeI’m talking about a special kind of nothing, of course.Jun 12, 2019Jun 12, 2019