Must try harder …. Annual State of the Global Climate report … increasing vulnerability of a planet that is moving ever further out of equilibrium as a result of human activity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Comfrey ... Symphytum, knitting bone, knitbone, boneset, bruisewort centuries of medicinal use stories. #storyplants for #wildflowerhour

Have you seen Jack in the Green? #NatureWriting celebrating March around the Spring Equinox, when the 'land’s intelligence becomes visible, audible and readable again after winter’s silence' fairsnape.substack.com/p/have-you-s...

Nature on Board? #NatureWriting #VoiceOfNature

After yesterday’s drenching out across the moors, this morning dawns blue-skyed, and frosty-bright. Across the way, a copice of hazel catkins delights with glowing quinacridone gold pendants. #DailyNature #NatureWriting

Images of the UK’s wildlife are to feature on the next series of banknotes following a public consultation run by the Bank of England. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“Slowly I have found my way in” … Maybe this then is our role, not in creating new ways, new technologies, but in stewarding the removal of barriers, stopping harm, repairing damage so living systems can restore themselves. #naturewriting #regennotes #dailynature open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

Nature connectedness is not just about what we do, talk, teach, write about, but how we feel, think + value our place in the world, it’s who we are It’s in that moment of instinctively understanding our connectivity before we analyse it. Sensing before sense-making #DailiyNature #NatureWriting

Wildcats & Capercaillie good news stories “Even if both species are rarely seen, knowledge they are here, and the little clues that they leave, whether tracks or feathers, are more than enough” Amanda Thomson #NatureWriting in today’s Guardian Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

6am and a glorious quartet greeting the grey dawn. Tempted to say ‘as a practice for the upcoming dawn chorus’, but these four aren’t just practicing - they just ‘are’. (And seems they started chorusing without the Wren who is a usual participant) #DailyNature #NatureWriting

The first of the last ... substack.com/home/post/p-... #spring #biodiversity #nature #loss #BnG #naturewriting

Hazel - a tree of wisdom and inspiration, that gives joy with early catkins - one of the very first pollen sources of the year and a lifeline for queen bumblebees now emerging from hibernation. #Wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

50 Words for Snow collapsed into a Wintry Mix ... further eroding our relationship with nature #RegenNotes #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/50-words-f...

Aliveness ... Living #regenerative buildings are alive, enable inhabitants’ aliveness ... creating conditions for connection through lived experience & felt knowledge through body and presence #naturewriting #regennotes #livingmountain #regenerativestewardship fairsnape.substack.com/p/slowly-i-h...

Exploring, celebrating Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain How exquisite & sublime a passage, that through reflection has the power to shift thinking on regenerative, on biophilic design, aliveness & what are living buildings #regennotes #naturewriting read fairsnape.substack.com/p/slowly-i-h...

The Climate Fiction Prize 2026 longlist is here! 🤩📚 This longlist shows the limitless scope of climate fiction, from gripping thrillers to experimental literary works, folklore and reimagined myths to science fiction and generational family saga. Full list here: climatefictionprize.co.uk

Regenerative reflection, rethinking, realignment. Imbolc - a beautiful time to reflect on regenerative meaning #NatureWriting #Imbolc #regenerative #RegenNotes fairsnape.substack.com/p/regenerati...

“Yet even their sweet names bring pleasure: silky wall-moss, frizzled crisp-moss, comb-moss, glittering wood-moss or the rather weird flat neckera and wall scalewort” Mark Cocker #naturewriting on Derbyshire bryophytes, liverwort, mosses in today’s Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Great news … Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law! Meanwhile Rest of UK resists calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds www.theguardian.com/environment/...

"cultural memory embedded in place names, song & story holds valuable knowledge about the land and its former richness. Names encode details about flora and fauna, landforms, traditional land uses, settlement patterns, local stories and beliefs" Gaelic Placenames & Ecological Significance.

Companion to the Wild Yeast Regenerative lessons in the aliveness of sourdough. "We cannot force regeneration ... we can only create and enable the conditions" Regen/Notes #NatureWriting #Regenerative fairsnape.substack.com/p/companion-...

"A clump of snowdrops in the woodland gives me that spring dopamine hit" Bursts of white in the winter murk... Kate Blincoe #NatureWriting in todays County Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As the Earth turns toward dusk, Give it time, the sky will change, Sunset, Inglewhite, Lancashire. #naturewriting

Twilight. Shadow flight on River Chew catches eye, and there, electric blue-green, Iridescent. Kingfisher. A spell. A brief enchantment, Lingering long after blue streak moves on downstream.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 09/01

Earth-aligning living buildings, not a style, but ethical, ecological thresholds, enabling, inviting us … to feel, to dance, to connect, to live, with, within, living systems. 💚 #livingbuildings #dailynature #naturewriting open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

Also featuring the magnificent contributors whom give you their words: @noswpod.bsky.social @charlie-alice-raya.org @petergknight.bsky.social @kerdraon-hascoet.bsky.social @mixaeljones.bsky.social @martinbr.bsky.social I hope to see you all in March to celebrate Imbolc and HappyNewYear! #Nature

January 6. Calendar date, human construct, not necessarily linked to shifts in light, temps, plant behaviour, animal activity. Our bodies respond to angle of light, how cold, how long darkness lasts, when sap starts moving, when birds change patterns … 💚 #wellbeing #noticingnature #naturewriting

#WildFlowerHour January. Midwinters Primrose, No urgency, With enough light, enough water, enough leaf nourishment, enough beauty. Nearby, snowdrop shoots await #NewYearPlantHunt

When your journey through the landscape writes its own poems...

‘The new year isn’t a blank page but an invitation to continue December’s #Symbiogenesis reflections, as the conscious intent to participate in life’s weaving of separate entities into something entirely new and wonderful’ open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap... #NatureWriting

Bowland wildness hike, rock formations, vast perspectives, evocative place names … Pike Side to Cat Knott Well onto Brennand Grit of Knotteranun and Bowland Knotts, Raven’s Castle via Copy Nook, Cold Stone, Crowd Stones to Cross of Greet. Hodder. 💚 #place #dailynature #naturewriting 01/01

Between the old and the new, there is only this breath. Under same stars, a new chapter begins. Present, peaceful and grounded. Happy New Year. Mindful New Year reflections (back garden sky image 29/12) #dailynature #naturewriting

Day 31: And Breathe. At this threshold of calendar years, consider what symbioses we can tend in the seasons ahead, not only as projects to complete but as living system relationships to deepen. 💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Our Symbiogenesis calendar continues asking Day 30: Where is the humility to acknowledge we’re designing with incomplete knowledge, intervening in living systems far more complex than we can fully comprehend? How can we embrace unknowing to thrive as nature? #dailynature #naturewriting

And so the Symbiogenesis calendar arrives at day 28/31 asking: “Does this participate in life’s thriving, does it merely coexist with it, or continue with entangled harm?” Embracing thriving is liminal, messy, fungal, rhythmic, overgrows & inconvenient to spreadsheets #dailynature #naturewriting

Above the Cringle Ash, the pre dawn sky is laced with Yule ribbon. Ash, storied, in tale & layer, trunk links myths and realms, roots down deep to dark underworlds, canopy reaches up to weather, bird law and star listening. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #inglewhite 24/12

Humans are not simply consumers, We are Makers, We are Poets. Satish Kumar, Love Economy, a beautiful slow read in latest Resurgence & Ecology #dailynature #naturewriting

Winter Solstice: Earth Renewed Hush. This is the place, where endings loosen. They spiral but do not break. These hinge time words, not gifts, are for carrying, The sun has turned. It turns whether we speak, or not. #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...

Conscious Design for Life Day 21: The winter solstice invites us to pause. What changes when your design intention shifts from imposing engineered order to cultivating biodiversity and tending relationships?” #livingbuildingsdaily #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 21/12

Day 20/31: What if microbial literacy, teaching about beneficial bacteria, became standard curriculum? How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments? Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness #livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting

Early morning, hints of lightening sky to SE, Jupiter, Vega, Capella all bright, fading Pleiades sisters set on dark NW horizon. The still not-quite-frost morning sky then scratched by the super bright ISS orbiting crawl eastwards #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 20/12

Connecting with the unseen microbial nature world, beyond letting nature in to living with nature … Day 19: Imagine redefining ‘clean’ as a healthy balanced microbial ecosystem rather than a sterile environment. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #livingbuildingsdaily 19/12

… yet even ‘new’ words will not be the word, but seeds that grow as a living lexicon, that like the ecology it seeks to describe, emerges, grows, breathes, lives Spirals, not linear, tidy or tightly defined but messy with liminal edges that morph & bleed into each other #dailynature #naturewriting

Maybe the question is what micro-nature life we invite in. Microbes responding with how we pause, rush, repair, breathe, plan, live. Different commons, unseen players, shaping atmospheres that teach us, we are still learning in design for life. #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting

… going beyond the advent calendar and finish 2025 with this series of daily reflection prompts that will challenge and enlighten what living buildings can be. #lvingbuildingsdaily fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...

And breathe, healing living building, rooted in unseen world of microbial life. Reciprocating positives, meeting negatives in balance. Ah, intricate beauty, as moss gardens, as felt in meadow, biodiverse as rainforest, encompassing as cosmos 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 14/12

Day 14: What if your building was actually a garden, cultivating beneficial microbes the way you’d grow herbs on a windowsill? #livingbuildingsdaily fairsnape.substack.com/p/mycelium-a...

Ah Snowberry, Victorian transatlantic wanderers, hanging like cold moons haunting liminal spaces along the River Chew. Winter survivors overlooked for Holly and Mistle berries. 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #scape 12/12

Buildings as Living Microbial Ecosystems Day 11: Imagine the space you are in as a thriving space for the billions of microbes that live there, some harmful, most neutral, many beneficial. Is this invisible community thriving or starving? #LivingBuildingsDaily

This week's Substack celebrates the ongoing #DailyNature community challenge Featuring @charlie-alice-raya.org @noswpod.bsky.social @martinbr.bsky.social @petergknight.bsky.social @tinekerdraon.bsky.social Thank you 🙏 Be featured next week by sharing your own #DailyNature #NatureWriting