Radical Animal is a "book-net" - a book-text that will emerge from my own researches, and others' participation in this: and once it appears, it will stay in dialogue and in evolution with those networks. To that end, I'll be posting some extracts from my main writing on this Ning site - and inviting response and dissemination from you all. 

This is a…

A delight to receive this PDF from Elke Lahousse, journalist with Knack Weekend, containing my interview around the forthcoming Radical Animal book, in a section entitled New Horizons ('Kijk Vooruit"). The interview was conducted by e-mail in English, and is reproduced here…

Welcome to this first in a series of occasional podcasts, based on my continuing research for the Radical Animal "book-net".

Today I'll be talking to Ed Gillespie, who is the co-founder of Futerra, a communications agency aimed at promoting sustainability. My agenda…

More soul food than slow-food, Blasda aims to bring people together for a feed. By Mike Small

Can what we eat help create community and become a daily habit feeding the shift to a low carbon world? It can,…

When I was choosing my Technological Inspiration for my homepage on this site, I didn't hesitate in picking author William Gibson. Whenever I walk past an abandoned, now defunct phone box, I'm almost instantly transported back to those hazy, techless days of the mid 1990s, when a library copy of Count Zero was as near as I ever expected I'd get to a real computer, let alone one that offered the abilities and possibilities that the machine I'm typing this on provides for me. Gibson's…

Discovering Pat Kane's Radical Animal project has been very thought-provoking.  I've been prompted to put together a piece, that hopefully adds to the debate on innovation, sustainability and human nature. By trade, I'm a public health worker, not an environmental specialist.  But with a career focus on inequalities and the health needs of marginalised groups, my instinct is to look for the "powerful underdog" in every story.

I'm going to…

I've been putting in for…

I had some very substantive discussions with the commenters on the Guardian's Comment Is Free site, after my article launching the Radical Animal went up yesterday. Here's my…

This is the unedited text of Guardian Comment article of 26 April 2011, launching the "Radical Animal" book-net. All comments welcomed here…

I've been exploring the ideas behind Radical Animal for quite a while in other places - I'll start to recycle them here, for coherence sake. 

From The Play Ethic: Play and Ecology - our joyful - & troubled - connection to nature (lecture to Big Tent…