The Olive Network
We started thinking about the words that have perhaps been most neglected in recent times, and the need to return to them, and with resolve…in all their forms and resonances
Now gathering
50 voices connected
Lead story · Arts & Culture
Thread is a socio-cultural center with a residency program to allow local and international artists to live and work in Sinthian, a rural village in Tambacounda, the southeastern region of Senegal. It houses two artists’ dwellings, as well…
Dwelling·24 June 2021
This high-level event, co-organized by the United Nations Environment Programme and the Portuguese Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), with the support of the Geneva Environment Network, will focus on exploring the…
ON Network · 5 min read
Dwelling·28 July 2026
Nearly two decades of data show how the Multilateral System operates as a living mechanism supporting research, breeding, and global collaboration.
SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 6 min read
Dwelling·21 July 2026
UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous delivers remarks to the Security Council open debate on women and peace and security, UN headquarters, 17 June 2026. Photo: UN Women/Ryan Brown.
UN WOMEN - FOR ALL WOMEN AND GIRLS · 6 min read
Dwelling·11 June 2026
Astrid Puentes Riaño, United Nations special rapporteur on the right to a healthy environment at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, 6 March 2026. (UN Human Rights Council/Anastasiia Lavrenteva)
GENEVA SOLUTIONS · 7 min read
Dwelling·5 June 2026
Pope Leo XIV leads the mass in the Malabo Stadium in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea on 23 April 2026. Photograph: Luca Zennaro/EPA
THE GUARDIAN · 6 min read
Dwelling·28 May 2026
The 13th session of the World Urban Forum (WUF13) took stock of global efforts to steer urban development towards inclusive, sustainable, and resilient cities in the face of increasing climate change impacts, conflicts, and urbanization.…
SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 3 min read
Dwelling·27 February 2026
Hannah Spencer, the Green Party candidate, outside a polling station on Thursday, the day of the Gorton and Denton by-election.Credit...Temilade Adelaja/Reuters
NEW YORK TIMES · 5 min read
Dwelling·6 October 2025
Frankie lives in a six-bedroom house on the outskirts of Leeds. She is her own landlord, but doesn’t own the house. Instead she is part of a co-operative housing group : together, they have been able to buy the house and then rent it at an…
ON Network · 5 min read
Dwelling·25 September 2025
The event brought together members of the High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP, appointed by the UN Secretary-General in May 2025, and other leading voices in the ‘Beyond GDP’ space.
SDG KNOWLEDGE HUB · 5 min read
Dwelling·12 September 2025
The Morrab Botanical Gardens are a sub tropical garden in the heart of Penzance and home to the rare and remarkable Morrab Library. Nestled in the grounds sits a partially-derelict, former stables building...
ON Network · 2 min read
Dwelling·8 May 2025
The need for fresh water has pushed humans into exploring new and innovative techniques. For thousands of years, in regions where water is scarce, sometimes using air wells, people have harvested water from the rain, fog or even dew. In…
ON Network · 1 min read
Dwelling·12 May 2024
View of WIPO's main building from the Place des Nations. Over 1,000 delegates will attend talks on genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge from 13-24 May.(WIPO/Emmanuel Berrod)
ON Network · 5 min read
Dwelling·18 April 2024
A market in Sana'a, Yemen, 2 March 2024. The escalation of Houthi attacks on shipping lanes since last year is expected to disrupt the country’s food imports between March and April 2024, leading to food shortages in the markets, according…
ON Network · 6 min read
Dwelling·8 April 2024
The date is 28 May, 585 BC, in what is now present-day Anatolia in Turkey. The Medes, an ancient people from modern-day Iran, and the Lydians – a kingdom from the south of modern-day Turkey – have been fighting for six years. According to…
ON Network · 8 min read
Dwelling·31 March 2024
During lockdown we discovered, among many other things, that we can make our own bread and that it’s possible to spend more time cooking and savouring what we cook, with patience. Taking advantage of this context, Arrels is an initiative…
ON Network · 3 min read
Dwelling·7 November 2023
UN Special rapporteur Pedro Arrojo Agudo, speaking at an event during Geneva Peace Week on 31 October 2023, said water should be used as a tool for peace not war. (Geneva Solutions/Michelle Langrand)
ON Network · 8 min read
Dwelling·21 October 2023
The urgent need for disaster-resilient homes and
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Dwelling·23 August 2023
UN-Water and UN Women have published a report outlining a feminist agenda to tackle the world’s water crisis. The report calls for a holistic approach to water use and water conservation, one that brings together women, water, and nature…
ON Network · 2 min read
Dwelling·13 December 2022
There is no doubt that any sane person would like to live in a harmonious society and in a world where peace is everyone’s goal. A peaceful society is one with functional justice and minimal violence. Nations that manage to successfully…
ON Network · 4 min read
Dwelling·31 October 2022
As an individual, you have the opportunity at Anthropy of engaging in our nation’s future. Looking for the positive, bringing diverse experiences together, delegates will be able to participate in various discussions and workshops.
ON Network · 2 min read
Dwelling·23 August 2022
We wonder. It’s our nature. How did we get here? Are we alone in the universe? How does the universe work?
ON Network · 1 min read
Dwelling·30 November 2021
When Susan Nakyung Lee , fresh out of high school, heard of the plan for a global citizen assembly, she was surprised. Surely, she thought, this existed already. A few Google searches later, she realised that what seemed to her like common…
ON Network · 5 min read
Dwelling·30 January 2021
“What if every community formed a ‘Citizen Committee’, which is authentically inclusive of diverse voices and without political affiliation to any party?” Green Party member Chris Nash suggests a new way in which, during an era of…
ON Network · 4 min read
Dwelling·17 November 2020
The Lebanese capital hosts up to 200,000 Syrian refugees, many of whom lost their jobs following the explosion. UNHCR estimates that before the blast about 50% of refugees were living in extreme poverty and this has now increased to 80%.…
ON Network · 3 min read
Dwelling·29 October 2020
Though news headlines about the state of the planet may seem bleak, they don’t always capture the whole story. Right now, around the world, the work of protecting nature and the climate is happening in the field — and achieving small…
ON Network · 4 min read
Dwelling·5 October 2020
Housing is not just a roof, it is a basic human right. Worldwide, 1.8 Billion people lack adequate housing. UN-Habitat takes action to ensure everyone has an adequate, safe, and affordable home to live in. What makes a home for you? Join…
ON Network · 1 min read
Dwelling·31 July 2020
Imagine for a moment finding yourself in an abandoned town under the characteristic scorching sun of south-eastern Spain. You look up and are greeted by an arid environment, rocky soil, sparse vegetation and the very slight movement of…
ON Network · 2 min read
Dwelling·1 June 2020
Greater Manchester, Sustrans: Chris Foster, all rights reserved
ON Network · 5 min read
Dwelling·26 May 2020
Grey’s monument in Newcastle. The street will now be given over to cyclists and pedestrians in an attempt to keep car use low once restrictions are lifted. Photograph: Owen Humphreys/PA
ON Network · 9 min read
Dwelling·11 May 2020
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ON Network · 2 min read
Dwelling·5 March 2020
MOTHER... is an artwork by artists Heather and Ivan Morison of Studio Morison that engages with the connections between the natural world and our mental health. The work is inspired by writer Richard Mabey’s book ‘Nature Cure’, in which he…
ON Network · 1 min read
Dwelling·14 February 2020
Tatiana Bilbao , Frida Escobedo and Fernanda Canales are among 32 architects and studios that have created low-cost housing designs as part of an innovative community development in Hidalgo, Mexico.
ON Network · 3 min read
Dwelling·21 January 2020
Should we start thinking of buildings as material depots, full of reusable resources for the next construction project? Photograph: Omar Marques/Echoes Wire/Barcroft Media
ON Network · 8 min read
Dwelling·20 January 2020
Image: Fox Garden. Photo: Andy Stagg Sustainabl
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Dwelling·8 January 2020
OrdineArchitetti Milano Venerdì 22 marzo l’Ordine de
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Dwelling·11 November 2019
Kevin Kimwelle: ‘When you drive through Africa, y
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Dwelling·15 October 2019
Nature, sustainability and mental health are the key dr
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Dwelling·14 October 2019
Yawning gap: days of nothing are a ‘soon-to-be lost plane of human experience’. Illustration: Nathalie Lees
ON Network · 12 min read
Dwelling·9 October 2019
An eco-friendly council estate in Norwich has scooped this year's prestigious Riba Stirling Prize for architecture.
ON Network · 2 min read
Dwelling·24 September 2019
Illustration: R Fresson John Harris The H
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Charities·11 November 2020
“We are afraid because we have nothing […] As we live in a very congested area, if there is limited access to medical treatment and the virus comes here, we will all die. So, we need sufficient hygiene materials like soaps and masks, along…
ON Network · 3 min read
Climate·16 November 2025
Earth, hessian, oil painting, poetry, voices of reason, ambient sound, scent and Arcadian landscape featuring an imposing structure, abstracted, broken and forgotten, based on the Berlin TV Tower, a symbol of unification.
ON Network · 3 min read
Arts & Culture·28 January 2021
What’s the role of narratives and how do we update them once they’ve become obsolete? Anna Simpson discusses the process of shifting narratives in follow up to 2020, the agents and power dynamics implicated, and the role of futures as a…
ON Network · 8 min read
Arts & Culture·30 April 2020
Reader in History and UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, University of York
ON Network · 5 min read
United Nations·19 March 2020
Child Protection Personnel of UNMISS Police Visit School at POC Site. Credit UN Photo/JC McIlwaine
Joe Thorp · 29 min read
Uncategorized·26 January 2020
As the UK’s Climate Assembly prepares to meet for the first time in Birmingham this weekend (24-26 January), Caroline Lucas explains why citizens’ assemblies have a vital role to play in the fight against climate change.
ON Network · 3 min read
Education·24 September 2019
Image: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse Research has shown the health benefits of 'forest bathing', the act of being among the trees. The tonic of the wilderness was Henry David Thoreau’s classic prescription for civilization and its discontents, offered in the 1854 essay Walden: Or, Life in the Woods. Now t
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Feed · 04/06/2025
Marina Tabassum has built emergency homes for the delta-dwellers of the Ganges using grass and bamboo. Her Serpentine pavilion – part tropical glasshouse, part 70s office block – is a chic, meditative place for an overpriced coffee
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Feed · 04/12/2024
Wild Renaissance - New Paradigms in Art, Ecology, and Philosophy; Offers a new and original way of understanding the current ecological turmoil through the lens of art, philosophy and ecology. Draws on a new concept of renaissance and proposes a 360° vision on how to dwell on Earth. The role of art and design appear of paramount importance and play a crucial role. French original, 2019. 200 col. illus.
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