# across world (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover across world. Page: Feed: --- ## [World’s first octopus farm cancelled after global backlash](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/worlds-first-octopus-farm-cancelled) _2026-08-07 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ Positive news for animals from Spain to Argentina and beyond ## [Contrary to what meat-eating environmentalists think, there is a trade-off between welfare and sustainability](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/contrary-to-what-meat-eating-environmentalists) _2026-07-31 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ A new study shows that welfare and sustainability don't go hand in hand, but are we missing the point? ## [Economic inequality, AI energy use, Hannah Ritchie’s book, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-07-31) _2026-07-31 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data. ## [Will Andy Burnham deliver for animals?](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/will-andy-burnham-deliver-for-animals) _2026-07-23 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ The new Prime Minister has made promising commitments on animal welfare, but his cabinet appointments raise concerns ## [The Dog Lover's Ethical Blind Spot](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/the-dog-lovers-ethical-blind-spot) _2026-07-17 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ An examination of the ethics, motivations, and contradictions behind modern dog ownership ## [Urbanization, electric cars in Latin America, a 1,200-year climate record, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-07-17) _2026-07-17 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data. ## [Despite the heat, there is extremely positive news for animals and the planet](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/despite-the-heat-there-is-extremely) _2026-07-09 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ Awareness on gas chambers spread across London to millions of people ## [James O'Brien claims cows have more rights than humans during heatwaves](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/james-obrien-claims-cows-have-more) _2026-07-03 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ As farmed animals died in Europe's record-breaking heat, James O'Brien claimed they have more legal protection than humans ## [Global food trade, heat deaths, paying for CO2 emissions, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-07-03) _2026-07-03 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data. ## [My family isn’t vegan, and I don’t want to talk to them about it](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/my-family-isnt-vegan-and-i-dont-want) _2026-06-24 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ Why talking to family about veganism can be the hardest of all ## [ThreatCrush on GitHub (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KpCTiGatF8vc) _2026-06-24 · **Sponsored**_ View the ThreatCrush listing on the GitHub Marketplace. ## [Migration data tool, natural disasters, measles vaccines, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-06-19) _2026-06-19 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data. ## [Why I'm Sceptical of a Meat Tax](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/why-im-sceptical-of-a-meat-tax) _2026-06-18 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ Before we can implement a meat tax, we need to create a society that's willing to support it ## [Would dairy farmers being paid more actually help cows?](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/would-dairy-farmers-being-paid-more) _2026-06-12 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ Something is changing in UK dairy farming, but not for the better ## [Gaz Oakley and the Appeal to Nature Fallacy](https://earthlinged.substack.com/p/gaz-oakley-and-the-appeal-to-nature-fallacy) _2026-06-05 · Ed Winters · Ed Winters_ When it comes to people living ‘naturally’, why does it always seem to mean killing animals and not choosing to forgo heating, clean water and electricity? ## [Child deaths, LGBT+ rights, electric vehicle sales, stopping aspiring autocrats, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-06-05) _2026-06-05 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data. ## [New population projections tool, childhood stunting, China’s electricity growth, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-05-22) _2026-05-22 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data. ## [Country profiles on health, Hannah Ritchie wins the Unwin Award, who Americans spend time with, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-05-08) _2026-05-08 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ A twice-monthly digest of our latest work plus curated highlights from across Our World in Data. ## [We’re hiring a writer, farm animal welfare, causes of death, and more](https://ourworldindatabrief.substack.com/p/2026-04-27) _2026-04-27 · Our World in Data · The OWID Brief_ We’re hiring a writer, farm animal welfare, causes of death, and more ## [Exploratory social science, Oxford University Press, 2026](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/exploratory-social-science) _2025-10-06 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ I’ve written a book on exploratory social science for OUP which will come out in the second half of next year It extends various other writings I’ve done (eg for the New Institute in Hamburg or a recent piece on an ‘ARIA for social sciences’) and the annual lecture for the UK Academy of Social Science and at Copenhagen University. Here is a short summary. Introduction Should the social sciences… ## [Advanced Introduction to Public Innovation, Edward Elgar, 2026](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/public-innovation) _2025-10-06 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ I’ve written a book trying to put in one place lessons about what works in public innovation, from structuring teams to finance, experiments to evidence, citizen engagement to technology, systems to adoption. It draws on examples from across the world and across history and aims to help practitioners as well as researchers. It will be published next year by Edward Elgar. This is an extract from… ## [Web Coding With AI, Live (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/sPaIvrRQlvf7) _2025-10-06 · **Sponsored**_ Collaborative screen sharing with simultaneous remote control, open source. ## [Winner worship and the new kow-tow](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/ai4nbysb7xoq9nmo8j2qxvs5jwpkv0) _2025-07-20 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ In ancient China, everyone had to bow before the emperor, and ordinary citizens also had to ‘kow-tow’ to officials and magistrates: prostrating the body and touching the forehead to the ground. The kow-tow was an act of humiliation in front of power. It symbolized the relationship of the winners to the losers, the strong to the weak. Many assumed that the know-tow was a thing of the past, that we… ## [Uselessly right or usefully wrong: the case for sharper theories in social science](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/uselessly-right-or-usefully-wrong-the-case-for-sharper-theories-in-social-science) _2025-06-30 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ ‘ An enthusiastic philosopher… had constructed a very satisfactory theory on some subject or other and was not a little proud of it. "But the facts, my dear fellow," said his friend, "the facts do not agree with your theory."—"Don't they?" replied the philosopher, shrugging his shoulders, "then, tant pis pour les faits;"—so much the worse for the facts!” ― Charles Mackay, Extraordinary Popular… ## [Trusting data and the role of data trusts](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/ig821gtwn81zr4jyfjlp366j5p6viu) _2025-06-15 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ A few years ago I wrote a blog with Vincent Straub - setting out in some detail how data governance could evolve, with a proliferation of data trusts of different kinds to handle everything from health to financial data, research to consumer data. It proposed an alternative to data either being dominated by a handful of big companies, mainly from the US, or by the state. I assumed that something… ## [Good and bad growth - are we asking the right questions?](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/good-and-bad-growth-are-we-asking-the-right-questions) _2025-06-15 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ How should we understand what is good or bad about growth? What theoretical and practical frameworks are useful in grasping the key choices? My interest in this question was first sparked some 25 years ago when I became involved in what was coming to be called the circular economy – seeing the economy not as I had learned about it in university, but rather as a metabolism that takes in vast… ## [A loop theory of wisdom](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/a-loop-theory-of-wisdom) _2025-06-02 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ Is it possible for an organisation, a system or a society, to become wiser? If so, how could we make this real and not just a vague invocation — like wishing people would be kinder or more loving? In this paper I share some answers. I suggest what might be missing in much writing about wisdom and I suggest an alternative framework that cuts across different disciplines, including philosophy,… ## [Will governments ever learn? A study of current provision and the key gaps](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/ak0nimg7tc2w9dcwnlucl1gzu3egh8) _2025-05-25 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ I've written an overview of how skills for running governments are provided around the world - by governments' own colleges, universities and online - and how this provision might be improved. The paper describes the history of training from ancient China onwards and the main forms it now takes. It suggests 10 areas where change may be needed and goes onto discuss how skills are learned,… ## [Poetry, prose and plumbing: some first reflections on how Labour will govern](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/poetry-prose-and-plumbing-some-first-reflections-on-how-labour-will-govern) _2025-05-25 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ \[this post was first published a day after the election of a new Labour government in the UK in July 2024. It still seems quite relevant.\] I’ve worked with politicians and bureaucrats in many countries, through periods of triumph and disaster, changes of administration, wild popularity and deep public distrust - including dozens of governments around the world (and pretty much all of the most… ## [Strategies, missions and whole of government action](https://www.geoffmulgan.com/blog/strategies-missions-and-whole-of-government-action) _2025-05-17 · Geoff Mulgan · Selected blogs - Geoff Mulgan_ Every government is, in reality, a flotilla of many departments, agencies, tiers rather than a single thing. But all aspire to greater coherence. ‘Whole of government’ approaches - that mobilise and align many ministries and agencies around a common challenge - have a long history: during major wars, and around attempts to digitize societies, to cut energy use, to reduce poverty and to respond to…