I'm all for doing these calculations for the 'business case' but FFS the damages are to people, including every one of us, and to many, many others critters and lifeforms with whom we share our one and only home, the Earth. How else to say #ActNow ! How did we let $£ trump life?

A sad story about how one man - who has been monitoring a population of marsh tits for 22 generations - is watching them go extinct Richard Broughton 🇺🇦

Like all our soundscape pieces this week, it points to a much bigger story happening all over our planet theguardian.com/environment/20…

'Neighbourhood-based, resident-led action holds out a transformative promise - bringing together the economic and social power that lies - latent in overlooked and under-funded communities.'

Read our new essay published by Joseph Rowntree Foundation at:

jrf.org.uk/neighbourhoods…

Scotland is aiming to be the world's first rewilded country. It's looking to rewild 30% of the country by 2030.

We have the solutions. Replenishing and protecting nature is one of them. #ActOnClimate

#climate #biodiversity #GreenNewDeal

Great blog by David Steven advocating for a permanent #GlobalcitizensAssembly building on the first Global Assembly hailed by António Guterres as “a practical way of showing how we can accelerate action through solidarity and people power.”

unfoundation.org/blog/post/how-…

Fantastic new on-the-job training resource for employers, including two case studies we wrote on supported internships. Hear directly from the employers and interns benefitting from these programmes with DFN Project SEARCH HQ in the case studies linked below #NationalSupportedInternshipDay

Ooh, exciting call for submissions from The Broken Spine

We're diving into the theme of water next month in the seaside town of #Margate for #FirstFridayMargate at Marine Studios. FREE 5 April 6-9pm. Hear poetry from Jacqueline Saphra Gale Burns Claire Collison and Sue Johns and write a collaborative poem. marinestudios.co.uk/events/

'I see you in the estuary', @katpeddie's immersive sound piece with 15 contributors including Jessica T Rose is part of a showcase in #Folkestone this weekend at the Brewery Tap UCA Project Space - 53 Tontine St then moving to UCA Canterbury next Tues and Wed. Check it out!

Before my #WorldPoetryDay is quite over, I wanted to say a huge thank you to Kent Libraries for hosting me at a wonderful reading with three fantastic poets, Christopher Horton, Maggie Harris and Rosie Johnston. Thanks too to an incredible audience at Ashford library. 💕

For #WorldPoetryDay this coming Thursday I'll be performing new eco poetry from the freshly published Flora/Fauna anthology at Ashford Library with multi-award winning Maggie Harris, Christopher Horton and Rosie Johnston. 21 March 6.30-8pm. Do join us! eventbrite.co.uk/e/world-poetry…

Important research from Sussex colleague Dario Kenner exposing how the oil industry has spent the last 50 years undermining alternatives to fossil fuels. Featured in today’s ⁦The Guardian⁩ ⁦@suspol⁩ ⁦Sussex Global🏳️‍🌈✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿⁩ ⁦Centre for Global Political Economy⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

A stark reminder that climate change is now happening at pace and we will keep having record temperatures - and all their catastrophic repercussions - until after we have stopped burning fossil fuels #EndFossilFuels

“If the forest is alive—if the animals, the plants, the fungi, the river, the air, and the rocks are all animate beings—then we need to find ways to hear their voices and spirits.” —César Rodríguez-Garavito.
emergencemagazine.org/op_ed/more-tha…

And... it's out in the world! This beautiful collection of nature poetry and photography has landed. It even had a few pieces from me! Flora/Fauna is on Amazon, or I'll have physical copies in hand soon. Thanks to Pete Taylor at Open Shutter Press for bringing this into being.

7/17 I have my country and my convictions. I don't want to give it up or ever betray it. If your convictions mean something, you must be prepared to stand up for them and make sacrifices if necessary.

New edition of Byline Times gone to press. A hard one to put together. As Sir Michael Marmot told me:

'We are a poor, sick country with some rich, healthy people in it - & that will take a long time to fix'

But:

'I have evidence-based hope'

subscribe.bylinetimes.com

#buyarealpaper

RIP #Navalny . May the truth, courage and hope in democracy you stand for live on and gather strength across the world. 💔