| Matthew Fish |   ‘Stop staring up, start looking down’, reads the slogan currently doing the rounds on London buses, courtesy of expert desire manufacturers M&C Saatchi. As part of an ad campaign promoting tours to the top of the latest addition to the city’s skyline, the...

| Florence Scialom |     The fact that globalisation has an impact on people’s lives in the UK is undeniable while the desirability and level of this impact is still very much up for debate. After spending the last few months in Totnes — a small yet increasingly well-known town...

| Anthony Davidson |   With the coming food price crisis we need a social, local food industry to replace the corporate, profit-led, national food industry.  There are some ways we can protect ourselves from price hikes with the help of Social Enterprise BigBarn whose mission is to...

| Santiago Zabala | As Slavoj Zizek said, “the looming threat of ecological catastrophe” is probably the most urgent existential emergency we face today but this threat cannot simply be overcome by joining movements or green parties; it must also be accompanied by an appropriate...

We’re excited to announce the launch of STIR Magazine quarterly print edition!   After publishing 9 issues online and an illustrated book of selected articles and interviews we are taking a giant leap and adding a regular print edition to our publications.  The quarterly magazine will...

| Brandon Jourdan |   On November 14th 2012, thousands of people took to the streets of Portugal as part of a European wide general strike. Until recently, the International Monetary Fund held Portugal as an ideal example of the effectiveness of austerity policies, but today, its economy...

| Jonny Gordon-Farleigh |   After months of authoring, interviewing, editing, illustrating, designing and crowdfunding, STIR Volume One is ready to hand over to the printers at Calverts!  We’ve booked the launch to celebrate its publication and to thank the 160 people who have...

    We’re excited to have opened our new online shop! Check out our newly screen printed Stir Magazine t-shirts and tote bags available to buy online here. In the last few months we’ve invited some amazing illustrators to design t-shirts and tote bags for Stir Magazine. Edd...

| Patrick Chalmers |   Pogo Cafe in Hackney, London The Pogo Café in Hackney is everything we’re told modern Western consumers aren’t capable of doing, which makes it a treat to visit. The place serves great-quality vegan food, it’s staffed by enthusiastic volunteers who host a...

    Dear Rothamsted Research, Re: Take the flour back! Public day of action Many thanks for your letter dated 27th April. We would welcome the opportunity to engage with you in a public debate over the forth-coming weeks, so that both sides of the debate have an equal chance to hear...

| Patrick Chalmers |   visionOntv volunteers at work doing interviews using a “pop-up” TV studio at the 2011Mozilla Festival Media, Freedom and the Web in London   It’s a pig to get going as a journalist. Despite reporters’ enduring reputations as sub-pond-life types,...

| Ian Westmoreland | A question that seems to garner a lot of debate whenever the topics of climate change and peak oil are raised is what our future sources of energy might look like. This is a common feature of groups involved in the Transition movement, since the vast majority of us in the...