011 Praise the Whale and Sea

julespretty.com/2024/05/05/011…
[8 mins]

We didn’t see at all, that the whales knew so much.

The whale saved the people. Now we know, they attract visitors to remote ports, keen to watch the whale. They also capture blue carbon. Their numbers are rising.

New! Read Jules Pretty Jules Pretty from Hope Tales on how our human past was more diverse and kinder than we thought...

rapidtransition.org/commentaries/t…

New blog post: “The Next Dawn of Everything”
Most of life is inconceivable. Living without fossil fuels seems so, for many. Living without air pollution from cars, also inconceivable
The point is this: we have choices
bit.ly/3w5v3n6
MarkGoldthorpe
ClimateCultures

Excited to share new member Jules Pretty reviewing David Wengrow Penguin Books UK 'The Dawn of Everything' - finding stories that reveal how human cultures don't converge on one 'advanced' model & a rich accounts of diversity, freedom and hope. wp.me/p8dsAT-4XD

On #EarthDay we're looking back at the amazing guests who have joined Jules Pretty
on our Louder Than Words Podcast from Tanya Steele @ @WWF_UK to our very own Dr Michelle Taylor

Listen to brilliant interviews about protecting and restoring our planet: brnw.ch/21wJ3xz

010 As It Is, Like This
bit.ly/4aLidcH
All human cultures are projects of co-creation. They emerge from engagement, story and sense-making. This story is about heroic rescues at the half-kilometre sea cliffs in western Iceland.

That is how it was.

009 An Ancient Tree, Older Than the Forest It Stands In
[8 mins]
bit.ly/3vJT3Mx

This is a koan-story about a journey made to find ancient trees that once were connected with all others, yet have been left abandoned. And yet they are still Standing, guiding us as people

008 The Fan is Broken, Bring Me the Black Hound
julespretty.com/2024/04/02/008…
4 mins reading
The Black Hound may well be roaming the cliff paths to save the coastal people

Part 3 of our dip into podcast archive: Ben Goldsmith on Rewilding
Louder than Words Ep46
louder-than-words.castos.com/episodes/how-r…
Jules Pretty in conversation with Ben Goldsmith, author of 'God is an Octopus' & podcast host
Mins 0.00 to 28.15

Ben Goldsmith
University of Essex
Rewilding Britain

The Climate Chronicles: 007 The Ensō Isle of St Kilda
julespretty.com/2024/03/21/007…
Life in the stream of the North Atlantic Oscillation
[6 mins reading time]

Have a watch of our recent film shorts archive: Brighter Futures
youtube.com/watch?v=qKeOiG…
Magic Mixtures: mud & microbes

Jules Pretty in conversation with Graham Underwood, Chair of UK Blue Carbon Evidence Partnership
Graham Underwood
University of Essex
Natural Environment Research Council

006 Wild Man Running
bit.ly/48PXmTP

Yes it could, though quite inconceivably,
It could indeed, have happened that way...

Climate and nature in the far north

Here is Bill McKibben in Part 2 of our dip into our recent podcast archive: Louder than Words Ep45 bit.ly/49qUZrK

This is how to mobilise the over 60s. This was their rocking chair revolution.
Mins 30.30 to 54.01

Bill McKibben
Third Act 350 dot org
University of Essex

005 The Fisher Foxes
julespretty.com/2024/03/07/005…
Bu Ken [There is Nothing, I Dislike]
2 mins reading

Have a look at our film shorts Brighter Futures bit.ly/3IhM8Nf
Jules Pretty talks with historian Lucy Noakes, author of “Dying for a Nation” Lucy on the impact of modern warfare on grief & bereavement, esp on women
Mins 15.40
Lucy Noakes 💙
PHAIS @ Essex
University of Essex

Join us Human Rights Centre for a The British Academy Wellcome Conference “The Realisation of Human Rights in Societies beyond Growth” on 30 April-1 May. Register now here essex.ac.uk/events/2024/04… by Judith Bueno de Mesquita Birsha Ohdedar Claiton

More information here essex.ac.uk/events/2024/04…

Have a look at our recent podcast archive: Louder than Words Ep45 bit.ly/49qUZrK
“Ideas that Improve Lives”
In conversation with Lloyd Peck British Antarctic Survey 🐧
Insights about unique sea life & slow pace of living in freezing waters
Mins 0.00-30.25
Lloyd Peck
University of Essex

Summary: new koans julespretty.com
001 Story for Transformation bit.ly/4aVLL8a
002 Koans & Stories for the Climate & Nature Crises bit.ly/49T47Fn
003 Count the Stars in the Sky bit.ly/42ZJxky
004 The Sea Yet Not The Sea bit.ly/3UYE8YZ

004 The Sea Yet Not The Sea
julespretty.com/2024/02/29/004…
Kai mu kai

Koan and story - centres on the Drowning of Doggerland (from Sea Sagas of the North)
8 mins reading time

003 Count the Stars in the Sky
julespretty.com/2024/02/22/003…

Koan stories are about narrative arc and transformations. Who were you at the beginning? Who are you now? Click-click, that’s the sound of a pincer pair of chopsticks, catching flies.