Alex Turner

Medium • 14 March 2023

What if…? We are paid to be citizens.

In her book Imaginable, Jane McGonigal introduces a game called Turn The World Upside Down. The premise is simple: take a fact that is true today, and turn it upside down.

So, let’s play. For this scenario, we’ll flip the idea of the cost of living — the idea that as citizens, we have to pay to live. But what if the opposite were true? What if in future, we are paid to be citizens?

Enter the future: A glitch in your social dividend

Each month when you lo

WEAll Scotland • 27 June 2023

Building a Global Feminist Wellbeing Economy

Alex Turner, storyteller and WEAll Scotland volunteer shares her reflections on the recent Cross Party Group on Wellbeing Economy.

The recent Cross Party Group event, Building a Global Feminist Wellbeing Economy, focused on the urgent need to apply a feminist lens when creating an inclusive and thriving economy. In collaboration with ActionAid and WEAll Scotland, the event aimed to spark conversations and actions geared toward how we can redesign our economic approach, emphasising a feminist pe

United Kingdom • 13 September 2023

How Are Gen Z Really Coping at Work?

Gen Z is the first generation to enter the workforce in the age of social media, the gig economy, and the climate crisis. When it comes to their expectations and values, they’re also the most diverse generation in history. Let’s add to that heady mix: a global pandemic, a war in Europe, and an ongoing cost of living crisis across the world. It’s fair to say that Gen Z are coping with a unique set of challenges at work.

In 2020, we published our report on Gen Z in the Workplace. Today, we’ll be

10 September 2022

Remote Work Report 2022

Medium • 24 November 2021

The Deep Problem Techno-Optimism Doesn’t Want You To See

Imagine this: it’s the 1950s, you’re on your way up in the world, and you’ve won a prize. You get a choice between two: a cabin on an island, or a fancy, new-fangled dishwasher.

The Wild Pioneers • 1 January 2023

Where will the nuthatch go? — The Wild Pioneers

We’ve gathered at Ninewells Community Garden for a writing workshop that I am leading. I titled the workshop “Writing and Storytelling for Climate Change” but standing here, getting ready for the workshop, I feel massively under qualified and unfit to lead a group of people through such a boldly named event. I am struggling with my own climate grief, and often when I write, it goes very sideways. What was I thinking?

But here we are.

For the next few hours, we come together to talk about eleme

Medium • 3 November 2020

Rapid Climate Change and Big Tech: can anything still be done?

Though not really an avid news consumer, this morning I caught wind of the backlash resulting from Shell’s now-infamous “Climate Poll Tweet.”

If you haven’t seen it, let me catch you up. Shell went out on a limb and asked the audience, “What are you willing to change to help reduce emissions?”

TechDetector • 19 October 2021

Regenerative Economy

A regenerative economy regenerates capital assets, or the Earth's resources, rather than depletes or exhausts them. It seeks to find balance within the Earth's biocapacity, working on the principle of regenerating assets, and in particular, the Earth as both our home and our principal provider of goods and services. It is considered an alternative to a degenerative, exploitative, industrial economy, one which uses up, depletes, and exhausts resources and assets such as water, soil, ecosystems, a

TechDetector • 19 October 2021

From Hype to Hyperlinked: The Supply Chain of Tomorrow

This future scenario explores the role of technology in providing mechanisms for transparency, traceability, and accountability to support sustainable economic development. We consider the hyperlinked supply chain: a symbiotic articulation of digital technologies and tools across a ubiquitous, automated, and predominantly circular supply chain.

This future scenario explores the role of technology in providing mechanisms for transparency, traceability, and accountability to support sustainable...

Medium • 19 April 2021

Overcoming Climate Overwhelm — the game that is out to change the world

I’m torn between writing this from the future, as if I’ve stepped into a time machine and arrived in 2050. It’s temperate, and the air is fresh — 50% tree cover means that we are breathing the finest air in several generations. Humans are thriving in green, living, solar-punk-esque cities.

Hold up, wait. That’s not right. We failed to cut our emissions in half by 2030! We were so far off track by 2050 that we couldn’t see the forest for the blaze!