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Seahorses, solar-powered vehicles, a modern suffragette, and a singing workshop (opens the original)
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Chequered Skippers, cohousing, and using cloud computing to heat your water (opens the original)
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Co-housing, cinema, cycling, and a coffin made of mushrooms (opens the original)
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There are (The Ragged Optimist thinks, based on a rough bit of back-of-an-envelope maths) over 1250 optimistic and hopeful things in the archive now. Rewilded landscapes and new public realm, businesses doing good things for the planet and people committed to their local community, music and magic, and plants and poetry, big projects with lots of funding, and individuals trying to make a difference. Making people more optimistic is a long, slow, gradual play — it doesn’t happen with one wonderfu
References, the Rights of Rivers, recast aluminium, and architecture-inspired rugs (opens the original)
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Megaliths, Mini Moderns support Marine Studios, and Montagu’s Harriers. (opens the original)
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An architecture studio in a treehouse. A small one. A small studio, it’s a normal-sized tree.Olivia Rodrigo created an Etsy shop for her festival, full of things made by Etsy makers. Daisy Chain Fields (it happened on Friday, in the US) is a charitable music festival featuring a women-led lineup, with proceeds going to organizations supporting women and girls.A fox cub
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