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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 13/07/2026

🚨 Starting in 2 hours - OPEN:LAB 26 🌿 Today's topic: What is Ecological Health? We’ll be inviting queries on topics such as pollution and biological stress as well as the role that data has in contextualising and communicating our health. Read More ⬇️ www.thecentriclab.com/open-lab-jul...

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Open Lab: July 26 — CENTRIC LAB

We’re inviting those who’ve worked through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of open-lab sessions. In these sessions we’ll be inviting people to ask specific questions in...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/07/2026

🗣️ ONE WEEK TO GO! OPEN:LAB / 2026 We’re opening up the doors and inviting those who’ve worked (mostly) through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of sessions to ask specific questions in relation to the course content. All are welcome.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 22/06/2026

Brendan Coolsaet et al have now finalized "Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions". Available in open access on the website of Belgeo. It includes 15 articles, in French or in English, as well as an editorial (available in both languages): journals.openedition.org/belgeo/81567...

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4 | 2025 Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions

Revue internationale de géographie et tribune pour la production géographique belge / International journal of geography and platform for the Belgian research in geography

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 28/05/2026

Launching OPEN LAB: July 2026 📖 We’re inviting those who’ve worked through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of open-lab sessions. In these sessions we’ll be inviting people to ask specific questions in relation to the course content.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/05/2026

REMINDER FOR TOMORROW: Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis. Our event with UCL Public Policy on what role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? 📅 Tuesday 12th May ⏰ 12-1pm (UK) 📍 online (free) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

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Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 31/03/2026

Up Close and Policy is produced by @uclpublicpolicy.bsky.social. Lab director Araceli Camargo is speaking alongside: 🗣️ @ilankelman.bsky.social is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, and 🗣️ Poppy Lyle, currently Head of Air Quality at the Greater London Authority.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 31/03/2026

NEW EVENT What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? And what happens when science, community advocacy, and policy adopt a shared vocabulary rooted not in abstraction, but in lived experience? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

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Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 30/03/2026

We're currently working alongside this community group. If you're feeling generous or righteous, please consider donating to their campaign. Judicial reviews are powerful ways to set new legal precedence on environmental justice issues. www.crowdjustice.com/case/judicia...

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Stop a Toxic Gasworks Development causing London-wide Pollution

My name is Jude Allen. I'm a local resident and documentary filmmaker and member of a local community campaign fighting to stop a toxic gasworks development in West London.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/03/2026

Quite a week it's been. In case you missed it, here's what's happened in the world of Centric Lab this week. 📝 We launched the 'Introduction to Ecological Health' online course 🔗 www.thecentriclab.com/an-introduct...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 03/03/2026

🔶 Introducing 🔶 AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGICAL HEALTH A self-led online learning journey. We're trying to equip community leaders and organisers with the tools and resources that validate their lived experiences, sustain, and accelerate their advocacy work. This course helps to achieve that.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 26/02/2026

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 Today we launch the ‘Introduction to Ecological Health’ online learning course. It's a free, open access, space that brings together numerous learnings that we've produced over the years. Designed across four learning modules the course introduces learners to a range of topics.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 29/01/2026

Our January Newsletter is OUT CONTENTS 🔶 NEW COLLABORATION WORK: Health, Place, and Retrofit. 🔶 NEW BLOG: A Reflection on the Term 'Indicator' by Hannah Yu-Pearson 🔶 WHAT'S HAPPENING: A snapshot of the some of the projects we're working on a the moment. mailchi.mp/6fe57ce12f0b...

Hannah from Centric Lab leading a workshop with Portland Inn Project for our collaboration with National Retrofit Hub.

Picture of some post-it notes featuring insights from the workshop

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 24/11/2025

It's #CleanAirWeek by the @unep.org discussing solutions for improving air quality in the Asia-Pacific region and we're going to be sharing some learnings everyday on our work in this area. First up: Defining Data for Health Justice www.thecentriclab.com/aik-data-hj/...

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Defining Data for Health Justice — CENTRIC LAB

Data is a powerful tool for justice and language for accountability. However, data can easily be manipulated and used to entrench inequities. In this lesson, I'll cover some of the fundamentals around...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/11/2025

From Health Councils to Healing Hubs In 2021, Centric Lab leaned into an emerging ontological shift with knowledge production. The result was to set up the Urban Health Council. @impurbanhealth.bsky.social came on board as partners shortly after. Here's our shared learnings from the past 3 years

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

New thinking from the Lab 👇

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 15/07/2025

A Case for Health Reparations For Communities Affected by Air Pollution. This work lays out pathways and theories to nurture our communities, create infrastructure for autonomous healing processes, and live through this epoch with dignity. www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

What are health Reparations?
The creation of infrastructure for Peoples who have directly experienced structural violence to autonomously create pathways to repair and fortify community health.

We are presenting pathways, philosophies, and strategies for community-led healing to safeguard against air pollution through Health Reparations.

The full reporting can be found on our website, under Health Reparations and Air is Kin work.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 25/03/2025

No Time for Leaders We have created this zine as a framing that helps guide our work moving forward. www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

This zine is a provocation, a set of contemplations and principles to frame our response to loss. A time of deep listening and questioning.

Setting our Intention.
The intention of this document is to declare how we at Centric Lab are going to respond to the loss we are facing.
In particular, how are we going to heal when the loss and trauma is on-going and when resources become increasingly unavailable.

Introduction.
Over the summer of 2024, Centric Lab curated a programme involving doctors and other healthcare professionals. The programme was shaped by Dr. Rhiannon Miharian Osborne and medical student Amit Singh.

In one of the lessons, we heard from two Palestinian doctors, who asked us “What happens when the doctors die”? How do you heal your Peoples, how do you survive, how do you live? The group fell silent, none of us quite knew how to answer this question. Palestine is not only facing the loss of their healthcare infrastructure, they have also lost biodiversity, soil biome, water all of which will make it very difficult to cultivate food. Even before this revamping of violence, they were already living the effects of planetary dysregulation; soil is heavily degraded in Gaza, which has deeply affected biodiversity, they also are having much hotter summers and colder winters. To have faced this state violence whilst already living in such precariousness goes far beyond cruelty. We should also contemplate that genocide creates a loss of elders, communities, cultures, epistemologies, knowledges, which leave Peoples without many of their intellectual tools for rebuilding and healing. This of course is deliberate.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 17/03/2025

Air Pollution and Abolition. How might we approach this? Follow this thread to see some of our thinking...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/03/2025

"Without the credible threat of legal challenge, laws to protect our right to healthy environment will not be enforced and polluters will act with impunity...[for] action on social, environmental & climate justice, then repealing Regulation 15 is a no brainer" www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2491...

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How legal aid reform should work for environmental justice

The Herald has outlined the myriad challenges facing the criminal and civil legal aid system: from a shortage of solicitors, to lengthy delays in…

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/03/2025

A 🧵 on the first 3 months of our Air is Kin project. We have identified the following needs and knowledges gaps within the space of environmental justice and clean air advocacy.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 07/03/2025

"They say, ‘Oh, well, we have fresh water now.’ But, they’re going to have to live for the rest of their lives with the contamination of their bodies. That’s why, in a number of cases, the struggle for environmental justice is a matter of life and death." insideclimatenews.org/news/2402202...

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‘Never Let Anyone Break Your Spirit’: How an Environmental Justice Forefather Is Thinking About Our Current Moment - Inside Climate News

Plus some lessons in perseverance inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., himself.

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Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

How epistemic injustice in research kills: This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?" "The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.

"The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening. Because, of course, many women do speak up, have always spoken up, and it is not only ‘bad’ men who ignore them. A group of researchers at the University of Cambridge recently reported on a study in Northern India where remotely operated drones were meant to be used to monitor wildlife. They found that the technology was used instead by local government and male villagers to surveil and humiliate women. Some women who worked together in the forest felt so intimidated that they softened the singing they used to deter attacks from predators. One was subsequently killed by a tiger. The lead researcher, who I have no reason to think is anything other than a very good guy, commented: ‘Nobody could have realised that camera traps put in the Indian forest to monitor mammals actually have a profoundly negative impact on the mental health of local women who use these spaces.’ Really – nobody?"

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Brandon Samuel Whitley @brandonswhitley.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Congratulations Nataly! This is incredible, inspiring, and insightful piece of work! It is a reflective essay on the integration of groundbreaking research with Indigenous / Land-Kinned knowledge, with an insightful focus on Bitter Potatos and their deep connection to the Aymara and Quechuan Peoples

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Nataly Allasi Canales @allasicanales.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru. Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 27/02/2025

Thanks for the kind words and sharing the piece @bharathabnair.bsky.social ✊🏾

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 27/02/2025

Centric Lab February Newsletter is out 🥳 This month's newsletter leads with the launch of a new piece of work by Nataly Allasi Canales, a Quechua Amazonian evolutionary biologist titled 'Bitter Potato'. There's also updates on recent conferences, workshops, and more. mailchi.mp/f4cdc24e336c...

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 14/02/2025

"Microscopic particles emitted from brake pads can be more toxic than those emitted in diesel vehicle exhaust, a study has found." This is what happens when you focus on emissions and not contaminants. One is an output, the other an input. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Brake pad dust can be more toxic than exhaust emissions, study says

Research shows move to electric vehicles may not be enough to enable pollution from cars to be eradicated

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 11/01/2025

Heartwarming to see that the hero image of the @scigallerylon.bsky.social newsletter features someone watching a video from our part of the Vital Signs exhibition 🤗 “This isn’t just an exhibition, it’s a movement” — @londonwithmygirl

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 18/12/2024

"It was in this part of the analysis that they found an association between the particle pollution from the incinerators and PCBs and dioxins in breast milk, although all of the mothers had PCB.." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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Study examines women’s proximity to incinerators and chemical level in breast milk

Researchers find winds affecting emissions from incinerators play role, though diet still thought to be largest factor

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 13/12/2024

"a sign of success within movements is when we are able to intervene in the dominant logics of the times and to collectively produce new meanings." - Robin Maynard in Rehearsals for Living.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 10/12/2024

UPDATE Our issues have been resolved and our website and emails are working again. We apologise for not being contactable during this period and that messages will have bounced. Thanks, CL ✌🏾

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 06/12/2024

We're having domain issues so our website and emails are down for the moment. It's out of our immediate control but we hope to resolve things soon. Please message here if you need to contact us. Thanks

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 25/11/2024

As it's all new here, we’re going to introduce ourselves and what we do through a story. It’s a story of our health, a story of power, dominance, extraction and contamination. However, the story nears its conclusion through hope, imagination and action….enjoy.

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Centric Lab @thecentriclab.com · 13/11/2024

VITAL SIGNS: another world is possible is live! Last night was the private view for Vital Signs, an exhibition at the Science Gallery London. We were invited to contribute work around our relationship to Air and the determinants of pollution. london.sciencegallery.com/sgl-events/v...

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