There is something very trippy at the heart of systems change. What would happen if we would embrace being mystic poets as normal and central to life rather than as an esoteric add-in? anticiplay.medium.com/everyone-is-a-…

New exhibition: Promoting the Global Goals by UniRdg Typography students

Aiming to inform and inspire people to achieve the United Nations #SustainableDevelopmentGoals , the project, funded by the Arts Committee, features clever and powerful student posters.

Check it out in the Library foyer!

A new campaign is lobbying dictionaries to change the definition of the word ‘nature’. But is this a good idea? My reflections on the #WeareNature campaign led by Lawyers for Nature What are your thoughts?...
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The The Office for Environmental Protection shows the gulf between environmental political promises & action. For 79% of rivers, Government has low or no confidence in its own plans to restore river quality by 2027.

This culture of non-compliance with environment targets must end.

theoep.org.uk/report/oep-fin…

An important and neglected additional source of water pollution highlighted in this comprehensive and valuable CIWEM report

Join us on 18 May for the Uni of Reading Community Festival - a FREE one day celebration for the whole #RdgUK community.

Taking place from 11am-5pm, there's music, talks, sport activities, street food and much more.

Check out the full line-up at rdg.ac/communityfest

Great to read more about the process behind the #wearenature campaign. The Lawyers for Nature presented The OED with evidence of historical use for the word 'nature' that includes humans. This is important because evidence shows when we feel separate we care less.
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An excellent campaign wearenature.org launched yesterday, aiming to recalibrate our relationship with nature to help address environmental crisis. Ironically, the same day I was at Bristol Uni Press with Rebecca Tomlinson discussing a forthcoming book on exactly this topic!

So proud that our team (led by Jessie Mond-Wedd) are behind this important campaign.

Until we understand the interdependency of all life (including ours) on nature we will continue on a heartbreaking path.

Humans are a part of nature.

Great to work with you on this Dr Nicola Ranger. I put together a thread explaining key elements of the work, involving the excellent collaboration with your group ECI, Univ of Oxford , along with partners UNEP-WCMC , Uni of Reading & Green Finance Institute A real team effort! x.com/Tom_H_Oliver/s…

Relational ecologies, decolonial and feminist approaches offer suggestions for a more just, less exploiting and less extractivist #EU #bioeconomy

Check out our blog written with Tom Oliver Prof Lyla Mehta and Jacopo Giuntoli. Thanks Institute of Development Studies for publishing!

Enjoyed being involved in this manuscript and blog, both stemming from an EU_ScienceHub workshop on EU bioeconomy. Thanks to Institute of Development Studies for hosting the blog ids.ac.uk/opinions/how-c…

New report on understanding and analysing the global 'polycrisis' by Cascade Institute at Royal Roads University
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This report highlights the critical principle that nature underpins our economies and their future prosperity.

Governments, central banks, regulators, and the financial sector must proactively manage nature-related risks today.

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The Green Finance Institute has today published analysis showing the impact that nature loss could have on UK economy🪙

With estimates reaching a 12% loss to GDP in the years ahead it's clear that the economic impacts of nature loss cannot be ignored📉

Read more👇

theguardian.com/environment/20…