THE ORBITAL Tracking the emergent movement for planetary systems governance

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Agroecology's quiet spread across 33 European countries

A five-year mapping project documents hundreds of agroecological initiatives across Europe — from farming practices to living labs — showing how food system transformation happens through distributed experimentation rather than top-down policy.

What makes a rewilding image worth seeing — and judging

As the Rewilding Europe Award deadline approaches, photographer Jon A. Juárez reflects on what makes rewilding imagery matter: not just aesthetics, but the governance relationships between people, science, and returning ecosystems.

Actors (17)

Agroecology Europe

European association advancing agroecology through transdisciplinary research, farmer-to-farmer knowledge exchange, and policy engagement across the EU.

Beckley Foundation

UK-based research foundation pioneering scientific research into psychedelics and consciousness, while advocating evidence-based drug policy reform globally.

Future Generations Commissioner for Wales

Statutory body established by the Well-being of Future Generations Act, the world's first independent commissioner mandated to advocate for the interests of future generations in government decisions.

Gaia AI

AI-powered forest management platform providing satellite-derived insights on forest health, carbon stocks, and biodiversity metrics to support data-driven conservation decisions.

Gaia Foundation

UK-based foundation advancing earth jurisprudence, seed sovereignty, and community ecological governance across Africa and South America. Pioneers of the 'earth jurisprudence' legal-philosophical framework.

IIED Biocultural Heritage

International Institute for Environment and Development research programme on biocultural heritage, bridging indigenous knowledge systems, biodiversity conservation, and community rights.

Learning Planet Institute

Paris-based institute developing educational approaches for planetary citizenship, running futures learning labs on anticipatory governance and connecting education with sustainability transformation.

Liquid Democracy e.V.

Berlin-based nonprofit developing open-source digital participation tools including Adhocracy, enabling liquid democracy and deliberative processes for governments and civil society.

Not Only Larp

Italian design studio creating immersive LARP experiences explicitly for social change, running large-scale educational and political LARPs across Europe.

Rewilding Europe

Pan-European rewilding initiative operating across 10+ landscapes, reintroducing wildlife, supporting nature-based economies, and running the European Rewilding Network connecting 100+ local initiatives.

Sortition Foundation

UK-based organisation promoting and running citizens' assemblies selected by sortition (random selection), having facilitated over 100 stratified random selections for democratic bodies.

Steward Ownership

Knowledge platform and network promoting steward-ownership as an alternative corporate model where companies are self-owned, profits serve purpose, and control stays with active stewards rather than passive investors.

Superflux

Award-winning speculative design studio creating immersive installations and experiential futures that make abstract challenges like climate change tangible through embodied experience.

THE NEW INSTITUTE

Hamburg-based institute running a dedicated Planetary Governance programme bringing together researchers, practitioners, and artists to develop new frameworks for governing planetary challenges.

Projects (4)

AERTH Planetary AI

AI-driven predictive platform functioning as a dynamic digital twin of Earth. Connects on-ground research with satellite observations. Blockchain-secured data sharing with bounty system for scenario modelling.

Smart Covenants

Platform leveraging smart contracts and distributed ledgers to democratise public investment and recapture land value uplift generated by sustainable infrastructure. Developed with EIT Climate-KIC.

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