About this post It’s more than a post! It’s an experiment in contemporary collecting, responding to the emerging Covid-19 pandemic. As a collaborative and evolving document about a current issue, it is helping inform our enquiry into Digital Commons Collecting. …

This is a summary of what we’ve achieved and what there is still to do, through our Stories of Extraction project, enabled by the Activist Museum Award. The call is out for the second year of this Award, and we wish the next awardees the best of luck. It has…

Here are some ways of thinking that inspire our work in Climate Museum UK. We hope they inspire you, especially if you work with audiences, learners or communities to build an ecocentric, regenerative culture. Putting an Eco Lens on Things In CMUK, we aim to help people see the world more eco-centrically and holistically. Our contemporary…

Hundreds of millions of people and animals have been suffering with unprecedented temperatures in India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. In parts, such as New Delhi, temperatures have been above 43 degrees C / 110 degrees F for days. The city of Nawabshah reached 49.4 C or 121 F. The impacts of…

I’ve joined the course, The Power of Place: Regenerative Place-making for Systemic Changemakers. It’s a 12 week learning journey, led by Really Regenerative. See blogposts here by Jenny Andersson, who founded this organisation. I’m doing this course as a cohort, with three others from Climate Museum UK, so we’re learning…

You’ve heard the adage that the best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. Well, the best time to declare a climate & ecological emergency was 40 years ago. But, in the Cultural sector, we started declaring emergency three years ago, with the launch of Culture Declares on…

This is published a bit before Earth Hour, at 8.30 pm on the 26th March. I’m focused these days on regenerative, ecological culture, and part of my plan is a kind of recycling — to review or revive former ideas or unfinished projects to see what can be of service…

Here is all you need to Find Your Flow and Change the World. It’s a handbook, a visual guide, packed with tools you need for these times of social and environmental crisis. The tools are concepts and practices for wellbeing of self, communities and the whole planet. Most of the…

I’m responding to an open invitation from ‘Futures Now’ to share visions of a better tomorrow. It seems an appropriate thing to do at the start of a New Year. My approach to future thinking is Possitopian, which expands the cone of the possible future, and draws on geophysical realities…