Would it be a good idea to insulate buildings like in Sweden and to give lower income / vulnerable communities low-maintenance insurance against cost risks? "Chris Stark: The economics of clean energy ‘just get better and better’ www.carbonbrief.org/chris-stark-...

Could you grow a bumblebee’s breakfast? When insects emerge from hibernation in February and March they’ll be looking for something to eat – so growing plants that produce nectar-rich flowers in early spring really helps. Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/bre...

JOB OPPORTUNITY | MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT 🌳 Salary: £41,479 - £43,791 per annum pro rata Hours: 28 hrs/pw, permanent Location: Findhorn / Dundreggan / Home / Hybrid Closing date: Sunday 1 March 2026 Be part of a team that turns numbers into nature. Apply now 👉 treesforlife.org.uk/about-us/wor...

Discarded plastic is choking our oceans or sitting in landfill for 100s of years. To reduce single-use plastics in the bathroom: 💧Use soap and shampoo bars 💧Choose paper packaging 💧Choose refillable bottles More ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/Pla...

Predicaments, not problems... take them to task. "Shell Names the Risks and Discounts Them to Zero www.artberman.com/blog/shell-n...

The Co-op Bank is now back in mutual ownership. Suits us.

Just a start... identity, the person, at scale the nation, good questions. The frontier looks to be closing in; how will friends and family, TGS, take it? youtu.be/eyzdObCJKd0?...

Nate applies wide boundary thinking... more than a wish, a grown up goal a.s.a.p., ecological wide boundaries, education for all? Internalise, realise, share? youtu.be/ZhpiURh2hpA?...

Instead of using chemicals, attract beneficial insects like hoverflies to keep aphids and whiteflies in check. Nectar-rich planting, wildflowers and areas of long grass will bring beneficial insects into your garden. More ideas for nature-friendly gardens: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/5-t...

Bohm, McGilchrist, Berry, quoted to stand witness: extraordinary reading Art Berman now in this 2nd half of 'ancient sunlight'; moral and cognitive deficit, fragmentation in the West? Living in a World Without a Worldview www.artberman.com/blog/living-...

Initial success, could win, needs cash. open.substack.com/pub/craigmur...

The ongoing assault on Palestine that our countries have long enabled, complicit with crime, while we still conveniently 'live inside the lie'. It’s not about us: Jewish anti-Zionism demands clarity t.co/P2oJx61nP8

Worth my posting twice; see also my substack note.

For decades, the West has outsourced its own material production to other countries. While this has seemed like a success on the surface, it has left us with a society based on consumption, unable to produce what we need on our own.

Inportant: Nate in recovery, reflecting on 'goodness' in the Machine, reads again LoR, The Fellowship, & commends Paul Kingsnorth, 'Against the Machine'. Interview with Iain Mcgilchrist next week on TGS The Creature in the Machine | Frankly 120 youtu.be/NEoDH_6BDoU?... via @YouTube

A way of living is naturally and sustainably, based on centuries-old traditions.

Explicit Havel reference is extraordinary. Thanks Arnaud. Wider ecology? Industrial civilisation, faces hard limits resulting from its own expansion. Internal failure beckons variously across polities, whatever their histories. "Carney just announced... open.substack.com/pub/arnaudbe...

Berkeley Earth high resolution data series,,, last few years sulphates? But look to high latitude north and my pet worry, AMOC tipping point (see Stefan Rahmstorf).

h't Adam Tooze, Chart Book. 'Brexit, taking back control'?

Not enough Copper globally. And weight of ore/ton refined copper doubled in 21stC. A 1st est. for Cu demand e.g. Net Zero UK in 2050, by mining experts was sent to UK Statutory Climate Change Cttee, 2019. A COPY here bit.ly/3YATseX Top Links 980 open.substack.com/pub/adamtooz...

Unconvicted UK prisoners lives at stake. Have just watched livestream (Monday 12th Jan; available recorded) Craig Murrays petition to the Scottish Court asking to quash proscription of Palestine Action in Scotland. His lordship accepted the urgency; decision this week or early next.

Daughter and family sent me/us the calendar again... wonderful pictures, and a good place to be at home in!

Very good; start the year with Nate! Nature does 'sudden' very well. What happens when 'normal' isn't there? It could be a knee like Nate, or me 3y ago when a prolapsed disc and old age caught up. Work at it! He has friends and important guests who do! Best for 2026! youtu.be/oIU76_D9f90?...

UK citizen voter, I wrote about my conscience and asked my Lab MP: Q... 'The blatent (mis)use of legal powers is for what reason?' The health of the hunger strikers is deteriorating and they need urgent help. Write to your MP today using @PSCUpdates new e-action to demand... urgent action.

Best yet, though Ugo Bardi has interesting point of view. Uniquely blatent US ‘big stick’, yes, but propaganda build-up skilfully executed. arnaudbertrand.substack.com/p/venezuela-...

Worth going back to this blog of last year quoting an essay by David Orr 30y ago. (see author recently substack.com/@matosmond/n... ) On a planet with a biosphere, what’s education for? borrowed-time.uk/2025/04/29/o...

Well.... yes. Next up? Better prepare for reality and save what we can where we live and be prepared to co-operate pychologically & share globally as best we can? Ecomodernism: Modernity Without Ecology www.artberman.com/blog/ecomode...

The Palestinian diaspora gathers consciousness out of the shadows across the world... there will be consequences. Gaza has changed us forever; onwards to justice www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/gaza...

Another one to remind myself to re-read during the year. Stark geopolitical appraisal connects water, energy, industrial / urban momentum, Western Asia & what we call MENA, my substack Aquifer? bit.ly/49lonAV

One of the best from 2025! Philosophy and physics meet sci-fi and (dis) belief; climate & nature are not problems. whitehead-featured-image The Metacrisis Is Metaphysical: The Fallacies That Doom Our Solutions | Art Berman artberman.com

This is proper #Brummie: the Sikh Langar Seva Society feeding the homeless in New Street station: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Palestinian Christian leaders call on global churches to repudiate Zionism and end dialogue with Christian Zionists

The great Welsh rebellion of 1400 should never have happened, but a simple act of malice plunged Wales into years of brutal war. I contemplate Tarot card XVI, The Tower, and ask: how do we respond when our former life is destroyed in an instant? traethiad.substack.com/p/when-the-t...

98 million Americans have prediabetes. A recent landmark paper showed normalization of glucose in people with prediabetes is linked to halving of major cardiovascular adverse events over ensuing decades thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Climate science is homing in! Even for a low emissions scenario there remains a 22%risk. x.com/rahmstorf/st...

What happens when it is not working anymore, what else might we share instead? What pulls you differently now? "Sunk Cost and the Superorganism | Frankly 116 youtu.be/Ymdut8EodIk?... via @YouTube

Print this one and pin it on the board and consult every 6 months? The Real Reason Europe is Rearming: Germany’s Industrial Collapse open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

Good & clear. Pass it on. " When reality scares us, we reach for “solutions.” - "We’ll try almost anything before we’ll be honest with ourselves". Many in crisis now globally? Look for allies in truth-telling traditions? Softer landings I hope. www.artberman.com/blog/the-fal...

Poverty, public health, better food for health... not unconnected. Restore PH grant. Vital if UK is to manage the future? "Budget 2025: three things stand out for health | www.health.org.uk/features-and...

On day #4 of Overland's Subscriberthon, we bring you two reviews of books about Palestine: by Yahia Lababidi on ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS and Norman Saadi Nikro on DAYBREAK IN GAZA.

Still thinking about this? At the time I got snorted at down south when I mentioned it, and again later when I tried to talk about 'social catastrophe'. That was y'r factional 'media' back then and a mindset. And we are into the future now.

Helps make much better sense for policy than most... British uplands are large, vital, and need you!

Small gardens can boost biodiversity just as much as large ones – and when little green spaces join together with others, it creates a network of wildlife-friendly areas that benefits many different species. Ideas: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/sma...

Like me, out of your depth, what with existential environmental threats and militarised policies? Try this timely sketch... "Harlequin Goes to War: The Slapstick Strategy open.substack.com/pub/senecaef...

Guess you practice this a lot before you need it? Some of this is location or task specific, i.e. loops already constructed. Don’t look for ‘answers’ or beat it up, let a more secure brain sort matters, I guess. PFC has a chance to get out more and to smile like the man? substack.com/@ajw3477/not...

Fruit trees benefit all sorts of wildlife, including bees, bats and birds. But around two thirds of UK orchards have been lost since 1960. Planting an apple tree in your garden or community can really help to boost biodiversity. What to grow: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/cho...

See also the vital article from Jewish POV in the face of the wrecking ball that is 'cowardice' in the face of extreme violence visited on the innocents of the world. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

This is America... Zionism dead, what else? I'm not Jewish, but took my British identity as necessary... what now? Can Britain & America regenerate to tell the truth? A must read. "Jewish Exceptionalism: a path to genocide www.jewishvoiceforlabour.org.uk/article/jewi...

h/t Rahmstorf Iceland's climate minister: "We believe confronting climate tipping points & risks.. is not 'pessimism' or 'alarmism' but a sign of realism & responsibility." youtube.com Observations & models suggest AMOC is slowing down, with global implications for climate resilience & adaptation.