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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

You can access the podcasts and all the other benefits & resources by joining the Earth Talk community (one-off cost of £75). And you can be interviewed for the podcast too. earth-talk.org

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Earth Talk — a course in Earth Literacy and activation

An eight-module course for anyone helping people meet the Earth Crisis. Build Earth Literacy, and the confidence to guide others to discover, imagine and…

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The conversation explored the role of prefigurative coping strategies and the relationship between imagination and activation. The three big themes were: Building and Fighting Strategy, Theory and Practical Application; and Cooperative Economic Development.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

One of the features of the Earth Talk Community is a podcast, of interviews with people who work in public settings for eco-social change. This interview is with Sean Irving, who researches community-based economic strategies for long-term systemic change, with a focus on Cooperation Hull.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Thank you so much for sharing , Jean. Great to see you at this morning’s call.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Being Possitopian about the future in an Earth Crisis is about developing capacities to shift position; entertain & combine many possible scenarios. That also increases empathy for people with dogmatic or narrow views, reflecting fear & social contagion, and focused certainty as a coping strategy.

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Jean McEwan @jeanmmcewanartist.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Eco/climate/creative folks! I would so recommend joining this community. As well as connecting with others engaged in creative work in response to the Earth crisis, there is access to many excellent resources developed by @bridgetmck.bsky.social This is needed now more than ever. Do join us!

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

On top of self-paced learning, you can form cohorts and study groups in the Earth Talk space in Hylo. You can attend monthly gatherings for mutual support, take part in practitioner interviews, and access mentoring and bespoke training. Discover more & Sign up here earth-talk.org

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Earth Talk — a course in Earth Literacy and activation

An eight-module course for anyone helping people meet the Earth Crisis. Build Earth Literacy, and the confidence to guide others to discover, imagine and…

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You’ll have access to 100s of illustrations, slides, posters, postcards, workshop templates + more. You’re invited to apply these to your own practice in engaging people. You might be an artist, educator, campaigner, communicator or anyone working for Earth Literacy, eco-citizenship & climate action

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

You can learn at your own pace tapping into a wealth of resources — learning units, audio & videos, & graphic tools. There are 8 modules, with two to come, organised around a framework of 5 elements, for moving people from emotional reaction to deeper understanding & imaginative action.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Earth Talk aims to create Earth Literacy in society getting more people activated to respond to the Earth Crisis. It does this by developing your capacity to engage & guide people to discover what’s wrong, imagine possible futures, and take action for the planet. Be part of a community of practice.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Are you starting to have more environmental chats but finding them a struggle? Do you want to include the Earth Crisis in how you engage with people & do your work? Want more creative & effective methods? I've worked really hard for 4 years to create the Earth Talk community of practice.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Now that all the parks & lawns are yellow and dusty, can we at last fall out of love with flat-mown grass? Can we have more meadowy, weedy, bushy, water-absorbing & drought-resistant parks and gardens please?

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MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Message to @andyburnham.bsky.social from MP Watch’s resident artist.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I’d love to get funding to catalogue and research the dataset. It’s just gathered from social sharing. It’s obvious that normalising everyday ecocide is a mix of active promotion by the powerholders of plantation capitalism, emergent cultural discourse & social contagion (entangled with racism).

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

I totally agree. I didn’t mean to suggest it is an accident of attention. I’ve been capturing 100s of examples of Everyday Ecocide for 10 years and looking at the structures and mindsets behind them.

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“Rebellious Scots” 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺 @markrich68.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

🇷🇺 ‘Reform uk’ is a Ltd company, directed and funded from Russia (via tens of millions in Cryptocurrency) 🇷🇺 ‘Reform uk’ (formerly the brexit Party) was created for the purposes of destabilizing governance and society within the uk, as part of Putin’s hybrid war on western countries 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇪🇺😎

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

However, there is much evidence of human societies having long-term thinking, cathedral thinking, ancestor respect, and stewarding ecosystems over generations. So, I wonder if it’s a strong feature of nature-connected people but a weak feature of modern urban industrial humans.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect. I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now. This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵

6 front pages of articles about climate risk connected by a red line.

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Dagmar Fischer @dagmarfischer.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

In 2020, the scientist John Abraham observed that the amount of heat being added to the oceans was equivalent to about five Hiroshima bombs of energy every second. Last year, the WMO figures suggest, it was closer to 11 Hiroshima explosions per second. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?

When James Prescott Joule lent his name to a unit of energy, he could not have foreseen today’s alarming calculations

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WEFAIL @wefail.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 10/03/2026

At @chathamhouse.org #CHClimateEnergy @elpinchbeck.bsky.social just trailed that the @thecccuk.bsky.social is poised to drop a major adaptation report in a few weeks - “headed to printers”. Reminder that UK govt has failed to make real progress on any adaptation & resilience front.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

The specific thing @thierryaaron.bsky.social said, and in general it’s all the ‘positive’ feedback effects, and how they interact. Plus, not helped by the accelerations of extraction & ecocide you mention.

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The limited framing does not afford safety and support to visible and vocal cultural activists, particularly people with characteristics that are under attack at a time of rising far-right and ecocidal agendas. Read more in the report...and do let me know what you think.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The framing of Cultural Environmental Responsibility could expand to: - Shifting the framing of human-nature relations - Collaborating for community safety and resilience - Inspiring the imagination of alternative life-ways.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Barriers & limited frames include: - A global backlash vs eco action - Inadequate public resources to respond to impacts. - Cultural sector entanglement with harmful bodies - Sector underfunding, funds too siloed & short-term - A lack of diversity, + precarity for artists & low-paid workers.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Also needed is advocacy for the new roles of Culture, its value lying, for example, in an integration of Inner and Outer Resilience (although it's often understood to be valuable mainly for Inner Work or Inner Resilience).

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

The Cultural sector can play a leading role in imagining alternatives, shaping narratives, & supporting communities in the face of great challenges. The capacities needed for this response include: - Ecological values & frames - Practical preparation & resilience - Skills for public activation...

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

As everywhere, the UK faces significant risks due to rapid Global Heating, as well as unpredictable reactions by power-holders. Resilience and adaptation to these impacts have not been prioritised in the UK in most sectors. In turn, the UK’s Cultural sector fails to demonstrate adequate alertness.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

By the Earth Crisis, I mean ecological overshoot and social shortfall. Human interdependence with Earth systems is overlooked. Indeed, environmental decisions are systemic decisions on every topic beyond the most trivial.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

What's the state of capacities in the UK’s Cultural sector for an effective Earth Crisis response - alert, full-spectrum & systemic? - Is there appetite to expand Cultural Environmental Responsibility to prioritise radical action? What capacities are needed & what are the barriers & opportunities?

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

It would be good if you could point out your sponsors Adani and BP are causing the problem in this exhibition too.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It’s like kicking open a vast termites nest except that to use an ecological metaphor feels in bad taste. Maybe like exploring a dictator’s palace after liberation, while the world is still captured by his cronies. It exposes the sufferings of violent patriarchy, racism, power grabbing & ecocide.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

I keep seeing people diminish Epstein, like “we’re focusing on a single sex offender but it’s a distraction.” He trafficked 1000+, ran a kompromat factory likely trading to Israel & Russia. It’s a lens onto a conspiracy of extreme colonisation of bodies & lands with devastating impacts on all life.

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Craig Johnson @cajohnson-craig.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

People get hung up (reasonably) on the "walkable" cities frame because many people cannot walk or have problems walking I propose: human scale cities as in: a city where the spaces I am in are built for human bodies, and not two ton high speed murder machines

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Green Alliance @green-alliance.org.uk · 27/01/2026

⚠️🐦 Nature loss is risk to our security and prosperity, and a new government report has confirmed it. Published after a Green Alliance FOI request, the report must now prompt action. As @ruthchambers.bsky.social sets out below, the government and parliament must urgently address its findings.

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Nature loss is risk to UK security and prosperity | Ruth Chambers

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Thanks! I’m co-organising a NEB event in Norwich with the second part being about imagining what it means and how we can apply creativity to the NEB challenge locally. (Reimagine Norwich, Norwich Writers Rebel). I’ll share that idea with Culture Declares for wider take-up.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

I mean MP Watch members can take up with MPs using your points. I’ve shared with them on our chat. Also, people are asking me how the Cultural sector - arts, design, heritage - can support the NEB. I’d welcome any ideas to feed to my networks.

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Totally agree. This is something @mpwatchnesh.bsky.social could McCarthy & other relevant MPs. The last bit ‘we’re already doing this’ implies messaging by stealth to consumers not strategic engagement with civil agencies/local govt/business. It treats it like tooth-brushing or speed limit driving.

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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧵

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https://www.linkedin.com/posts/glenn-vowles-a6b61a388_see-the-reply-from-my-mp-in-bristol-activity-7416987108285947904-_yYD/

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Ian Bassin @ianbassin.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

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#CarbonReckoning (Andrew Boswell) @drandrewboswell.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Pleased to join @rupertread.bsky.social @bridgetmck.bsky.social @npjbrooks.bsky.social calling for an international protectorate for #Greenland to address defence and climate risks; and to restart international cooperation in the Guardian today 👇👇

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

A prose-poem & collage exploring links in time & space, between Nazi propaganda, underwater photography & coral reef bleaching, to understand representation, complicity in and denial of great harms. bridgetmck.medium.com/black-white-...

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Black & White, and the Colour of Coral

Links in time and space, between Nazi propaganda, underwater photography and coral reef bleaching, as a way to understand representation…

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Natalie Bennett @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Oh, pleassseee! What could possibly go wrong if you were sailing nuclear reactors around increasingly stormy, little regulated, politically unstable seas? Has anyone thought about pirates? 🤦 #NoNewNuclear www.thetimes.com/business/com...

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Britain is planning nuclear-powered ships. Will they be safe?

Inside the plan to build merchant ships powered by a new generation of atomic reactors

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 08/01/2026

“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍

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Bridget McKenzie @bridgetmck.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

“Most of the time” 🤣 What an enormous navel, a kind of kangaroo tail, and a stance like the Tories starting doing on stages to make themselves look like Henry VIII.

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