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Initial ideas of projects to do with Mycelium- very brief but just started to think of some projects

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I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH ANDREAS IDEA ABOUT A MUSHROOM GROW KIT! I think we could have a lot fun doing the kit that involves as well learning things for us and exploring all our practices. 

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I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH ANDREAS IDEA ABOUT A MUSHROOM GROW KIT! I think we could have a lot fun doing the kit that involves as well learning things for us and exploring all our practices. 

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I very much like the idea of an affordable accessible kit that allows anybody to learn and make something linked to nature and that respects the environment!

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Mushroom grow kits designed and made by us 

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Mushroom grow kits designed and made by us 

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Mentioned it on the mind map the other day, I also think a Mycelium kit could be great. Sounds like a fun project and Jose’s idea of making a sketch book of instructions sounds so nice too. It includes a lot of what we spoke about- making a hopeful product instead of one that causes worry and stress. It would be great to design something really well that is informative and will also teach us how mycelium is made. The audience could be children/young teens.

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I am really interested in exploring Andreas’ idea of creating a mushroom growing kit. I also think it would be great if the kit included an image (a separate poster or part of the box) with an illustration of all the reasons why mycorrhizal fungi can be great teachers in the fight against climate change thanks to :

their ability to capture carbon from the atmosphere;

Their mastery of recycling, reusing everything that is organic enriching the soil;

Their function in moving resources among plants and trees, helping forests;

Their tasty meat-free opportunities

Their positive effects on brains in the fight against depression, eating disorders and the rest

Their medicinal properties in the fight against cancer and other conditions;

Their usage in sustainable architecture; ( as Sophie expanded on)

Their powerful adaptive and collaborative nature, providing metaphors for how to live above ground

Here is an example of a poster of permaculture principles just as a starting point:

https://formidablevegetable.bandcamp.com/merch/permaculture-principles-poster

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I've been thinking on possible ways of creating a kind of "sketchbook for natural observations" maybe guided by some prompts, inspired by the "observe and interact" principle of permaculture (spent the whole day today catching up a bit with that topic). All with the intention of understanding better ways of behaving more in harmony to natural cicles and so on.

Seeing (and sharing) the excitement for the mushroom growing kit, maybe this idea of the kinda-guided-sketchbook can be part of the kit.

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Artists can raise awareness about the climate crisis through their work, conveying powerful messages that inspire action. They can create thought-provoking pieces, collaborate on projects that promote sustainability, and use their platforms to advocate for environmental change. Additionally, artists can explore eco-friendly materials and practices in their art, leading by example in adopting sustainable habits.

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WHAT WOULD BE A WORLD WITHOUT BEES AND MUSHROOMS? PROJECT ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF SPECIES IN NATURE AND HOW THEY ARE SAVING NATURE

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WHAT WOULD BE A WORLD WITHOUT BEES AND MUSHROOMS? PROJECT ABOUT THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF SPECIES IN NATURE AND HOW THEY ARE SAVING NATURE

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Potential Idea (kind or related to the mushroom/miscelium idea) Explain how BEES are having a central role in balance of the biodiversity, pollinating and protecting the environement. Could be for example to architecturally build a sustainable BEEhive with recycling materials and next to it have infographic book about the importance of BEES or MUSHROOMS. Could be even multiple chapters, one about bees another about flowers and another about mushrooms. Every person has its role in it. DIY your own beehive in your community, grow your own mushrooms etc

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My interests surrounding the climate crisis include examining the effects of mass agricultural farming, as well as the environmental repercussions associated with the widespread consumption of meat and fish. I'm particularly intrigued by the profound impact that large-scale meat consumption has on our planet. The extensive production processes involved in the meat industry contribute significantly to deforestation, greenhouse gas emissions, and water pollution. It's not only about the carbon footprint but also the considerable land and water usage, leading to habitat destruction and biodiversity loss. As we discuss these issues, I'm also keen to explore how small-scale changes within communities can collectively generate substantial positive changes in the global environmental landscape.

I am also interested in sustainable architectural practices with a main focus on adaptive reuse. This is a less community based solution to climate change- and more large scale within the architecture industry.

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Over 700 North American bee species are rapidly declining as habitat loss and pesticide use continue at a dangerously fast pace.

A report from the Centre for Biological Diversity includes an evaluation of more than 1,400 bee species with sufficient data for the assessment ( 1). More than half of these species (700) are declining and over a quarter are at risk of extinction, according to the report.

"We're on the verge of losing hundreds of native bee species in the United States if we don't act to save them," said study author Kelsey Kopec, a pollinator researcher. "If we don't act to save these remarkable creatures, our world will be a less colourful and more lonesome place."

Colony Collapse Disorder

You may have heard of colony collapse disorder, the phenomenon that's caused million of honey bee deaths all over the world. It doesn't only affect singular bees, but entire hives, which puts an immense strain on the environment and agriculture.

The alarming die-off rate has been attributed to the use of harmful synthetic pesticides, loss of habitat, climate change, and disease ( 2). Loss of habitat also results in overly-stressed young bees who need to travel farther and farther to find food. The younger bees are less experienced navigators than the adults, and not physically able to travel long distances.

The Problem with Pesticides

One of the most harmful factors affecting bee colony collapse is the use of neonicotinoid pesticides. Farmers spray these pesticides on their seeds before planting, and on the plants as they grow. The pesticides target and attack the nervous system of any insect that eats, or pollinates the plant, causing paralysis and death. Their long-term health effects on humans are still unknown.

When bees pollinate plants that are sprayed with neonicotinoids, they carry back pollen full of the pesticides, which infects the entire bee hive.

According to the Centre for Food Safety, "Opinions from several independent experts reinforce that neonicotinoids are massively overused in the US, without a corresponding yield benefit, across numerous agricultural contexts. The bottom line is that toxic insecticides are being unnecessarily applied in most cases ( 3)."

Now think about all that honey or bee pollen you've consumed that is potentially full of neonicotinoids. Not only do these pesticides have a negative impact on the health of bees, but they inflict us in many ways, too. In fact, bees, above all other insects, are responsible for the pollination of flowers, and over 90% of flowering plants require pollination to reproduce. Imagine the grocery store produce section with over 80% of your favourite foods no longer available. Bee's are critical to the planet. We need them, and depend on them.

How To Help The Bees

As bee colonies dwindle, every little bit helps.

Leaving out bee waterers are great to help rehydrate the little guys, but you can help them re-establish their colonies too by building your own honey bee hive. I know it sounds a little odd, and difficult, but making one doesn't take much time, or effort. Plus, it takes up very little space.

In return, you can attract bees who will pollinate your garden and other green spaces in your area (that means better fruit yield for you!).

Thanks to Honey Bee Suite, they have provided the instructions on how to build your own DIY mason jar honey bee hive!
Make sure you keep the hive out of direct sunlight!
Materials Needed:

* 16" x 20" rectangle of thick plywood
* two 2" x 12" x 22" pieces of wood (sides of beehive)
* two 2" x 12" x 18" pieces of wood (front and back of hive)
* two 1" x 1" x 22" pieces of wood (sides of top frame)
* two 1" x 1" x 18" pieces of wood (front and back of top frame)
* bottom beehive kit (you can order one online from different sources - this part is so the bees can enter and exit)
* 12 big mouth quart sized mason jars (for honeycomb)
* 1 box of wood screws (size 1" screws)
* 1 can of wood stain (optional!)
* bees (you can order online - most are available only in March and April, but other websites may be different).

Directions:

1. Measure and mark 12 evenly-spaced 3.5" holes in the 16"x20" plywood

2. Use a hole saw to drill the holes for best results. Try drilling one hole first, then test the opening with one of the mason jars to make sure it fits snugly. You want the bees to enter and exit through the base of the hive so there's no mess on the top to attract ants. You may have to insert shims to make sure the jars will remain solidly in place; they'll get quite heavy when full of bees, combs and honey!

3. Place the plywood piece with holes on top of the bottom beehive kit. Screw together the front, side, and back panels of the hive around the pre-made kit.

4. Stain the wood if you please (make sure the bee stain doesn't include anything harmful that might harm the bees - personally, I would just skip this part).

5. After the stain is completely dry, sanitize the jars, allow them to dry, and insert upside down into the holes on top of the hive. You may place starter strips or empty combs into the jar(s) to give the bees a head start.

6. Place the hive out of direct sunlight and release the bees into the hive.

7. Watching the bees work is quite fascinating. Watch the video below to see what you can expect for these amazing creatures once you set up the hive.

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This Guy Invented A Homemade Beehive To save The Bees, And It's Going Viral

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Over 700 North American bee species are rapidly declining as habitat loss and pesticide use continue at a dangerously fast pace. A report from the Centre for Biological Diversity includes an evaluation of more than

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The climate crisis alters natural landscapes, influencing artists who often draw inspiration from the environment.

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Waste as artists and possibly the impact our own practices have on the environment

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Climate Cymru is a campaign in Wales aimed at encouraging individuals, communities, businesses, and organizations to take action against climate change. It serves as a platform to unite efforts and promote sustainable practices, emphasizing the importance of collective action in addressing the climate crisis. The campaign likely involves initiatives, educational outreach, and resources to raise awareness and inspire positive environmental actions within the Welsh community.

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https://www.creativereview.co.uk/photographers-climate-change/#:~:text=Other%20photographers%2C%20however%2C%20are%20documenting,in%20place%20to%20help%20people.

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I became interested in the dialogue between art and ecology through my artistic practice.  Since 2014, I have been consistently working on paintings that testify to experiences of being surrounded by nature, specifically by tropical forests and other Caribbean landscapes, from a paradigm of care and solidarity. These creative explorations have developed into poetic/pictorial reflections about how we relate to our environment influenced by socio-ethical views of Liberation Ecologies and Mystical/Contemplative Traditions.

I believe that scientific and rational responses to the climate crisis also need poetic and aesthetic approaches to achieve more profound transformations in the collective understanding of the problems being confronted, the responsibilities to be assumed, and the actions to be taken.

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Architecture's negative impact on climate change arises from energy-intensive buildings, carbon-intensive construction materials, urban sprawl increasing transportation emissions, environmental costs of demolition and waste, heat island effects in urban areas, and insufficient consideration of climate resilience in designs. There needs to be a shift towards more sustainable architectural practices and holistic urban planning.

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https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/what-is-the-climate-impact-of-eating-meat-and-dairy/

Cowspiracy Movie- Netflix

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Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production, study finds

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Production of meat worldwide causes twice the pollution of production of plant-based foods, a major new study has found

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Graphic Design inspiration - Data Visualisation

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Graphic Design inspiration - Data Visualisation

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Data visualisation project about plastic waste

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Data visualisation project about plastic waste

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Plastic Waste Pollution data visualisation

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Plastic Waste Pollution data visualisation

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Graphic Design Inspiration - Infographic/ Information Design

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Graphic Design Inspiration - Infographic/ Information Design

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Graphic Design inspiration - Illustration eco community

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Graphic Design inspiration - Illustration eco community

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This book is fundamental to the inclusion of social, environmental and sustainability issues in the design process: a manifesto for a radical reconfiguration of the field of design, its forms and above all its mission. Published in 1971, Design for the Real World is a manifesto for political and ecological design. It aims for social inclusion rather than monetary profit, fights against the enslavement of needs to the market, and advocates respect for the environment rather than the unlimited exploitation of nature and its resources. This book offers an insight into Victor Papanek's programme: entrusting design with a revolutionary mission, which today more than ever reveals its astonishing relevance.

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The Hummingbird effect (Native American legend tells the story that a little hummingbird struggled alone to put out a forest fire drop by drop, while all the other animals were paralysed by terror.

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The Hummingbird effect (Native American legend tells the story that a little hummingbird struggled alone to put out a forest fire drop by drop, while all the other animals were paralysed by terror.

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In our own small way, we have the power to brighten the lives of those around us, whether colleagues or family members: through our good humour, a smile, a compliment, a gesture of gratitude, a post-it note or a text message with words of encouragement.

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Broadly speaking, as an artist I focus on the psychological impact of socio-political injustice on people and on the idea of repair. I approach my work in different ways depending on the specific topic I deal with. I do sculpture, installation, works on paper, process art, socially engaged and participatory projects.

My most recent work has been dealing primarily with issues of social injustice such as domestic abuse, patriarchal control etc... But I have been a climate activist for years in the past, and I welcome this opportunity to get involved again in this sense. The climate crisis is arguably the most serious injustice carried out towards our planet and ourselves, particularly towards the lower classes.

My interest is Permaculture, as I see it as a reparative philosophy and practical and realistic method of implementing sustainable ways of living in all areas from food production, to architecture, energy production, waste management, social structure, and so on. You name it, and there is a permaculture answer for all the issues facing humanity, and it is based on understanding and working with nature, collaborative approaches, harvesting available forms of energy and stewarding nature, instead of fighting against it.

Permaculture is in line with the Gaia Hypothesis that the Earth is a living being and any holistic vision of the interconnection of all forms of life. I am currently researching mycelia as an example of an adaptive species that we have much to learn from, particularly in terms of interconnection.

The climate emergency makes me feel hopeless but permaculture and mycelia restore some faith, and that's what I like to focus on.

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Low Impact Living Communities in the UK – Diggers and Dreamers

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This book is just phenomenal!

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A New York Times Bestseller
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Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages. Beautifully bound in stamped cloth with a bookmark ribbon and a deckled edge, this edition features five brilliantly colored illustrations by artist Nate Christopherson. In increasingly dark times, we honor the experience that more than 350,000 readers in North America have cherished about the book-gentle, simple, tactile, beautiful, even sacred-and offer an edition that will inspire readers to gift it again and again, spreading the word about scientific knowledge, indigenous wisdom, and the teachings of plants.

As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. In Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these two lenses of knowledge together to take us on "a journey that is every bit as mythic as it is scientific, as sacred as it is historical, as clever as it is wise" (Elizabeth Gilbert).

Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings-asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass-offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learn to give our own gifts in return.

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A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary Hub A Book Riot "Favorite Summer Read of 2020" Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the hardcover special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, reissued in honor of the fortieth anniversary of Milkweed Editions, celebrates the book as an object of meaning that will last the ages.

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds, and Shape Our Futures — Merlin Sheldrake

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“Entangled Life is a mercurial, revelatory, impassioned, urgent, astounding, and necessary read. It’s fearless in scope, analytically astute, and brimming with infectious joy.” — Helen Macdonald

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Summary

Offers information on the practicals, from ploughing fields to milking cows, as well as information on how to create an urban organic garden and harness natural energy.

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The New Complete Book of Self-Sufficiency: The classic guide for realists and dreamers by John Seymour

Make the break, realise the dream and start living The Good Life! Packed with comprehensive information on all the practicals, from ploughing fields to milking cows, as well as new information on how to create an urban organic garden and harness natural energy. This new and revised full-colour edition of the illustrated classic is an engrossing read and a wonderful handbook for realists and dreamers alike.

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Everyone dreams at some point in their lives of living the good life, albeit not in terms of the BBC comedy series. In this revised and fully updated edition of John Seymour's classic guide to self-sufficiency, the dream becomes more attainable. Now running a School of Self-Sufficiency in Ireland, John Seymour is as committed as ever to living a better life, more simply, by living off the land rather than out of shops. His magnum opus covers every conceivable topic from animal husbandry and butchering, seed sowing and cropping, dairy production and food storage, rubbish and recycling. All delivered in Seymour's inimitable, occasionally brusque style, it is a mine of information artfully illustrated with the original illustrations redrawn in full colour. New material includes GM crops, urban gardens and alternative forms of energy with craft skills rounding the picture of natural wholesomeness off nicely. A classic of its time and a new classic in the making, this revised edition will encourage and assist all those aspiring to a live a healthier, more environmentally friendly life. - Lucy Watson

About John Seymour

John Seymour is the acknowledged founding father of the self-sufficiency movement. Author of more than 40 books, he draws students from around the world to learn self-sufficiency first hand at his farm in County Wexford.

Table of Contents

The meaning of self-sufficiency - the way to self-sufficiency; humans & their environment; the natural cycle; the seasons; the urban garden; the allotment; the one-acre holding; the five-acre holding. Food from the garden: the food-producing garden; the deep bed; sowing & planting; growing under cover; protecting from pests; pests, fungus & disease; vegetables; herbs; vegetables through the year; winter; spring; early summer; late summer; autumn; the greenhouse; soft fruit; tree fruit; caring for fruit trees. Food from animals: the living farmyard; the cow; beef; goats; pigs; sheep; poultry; rabbits; bees & honey. Food from the fields: clearing land; draining land; irrigating land; making use of woodland; hedging & fencing; the working horse; horse & tractor power; preparing land & sowing; harvesting; the cereals; wheat; milling grain; oats & rye; barley; maize; rice; growing crops for oil; growing root crops; grass & hay. Food from the wild: game; fish & sea foods; plants, nuts & berries; mushrooms. In the dairy: the hayshed & cowshed; the dairy; making butter & cream; making cheese. In the kitchen: the north-facing storeroom; harvesting & storing; making bread; preserving; freezing; bottling; making pickles & chutneys; making jams & syrups; cakes, pastries & puddings; meats; fish; vegetables. Brewing & wine-making: brewing basics; malting barley, making beer; making wine; making cider & vinegar. Energy & waste: food for the garden; the dry toilet; managing waste; saving energy; power from water; heat from the sun; power from the wind; fuel from waste. Crafts & skills: the workshop; building; springs & plumbing; knots & ropework; basketry; pottery; spinning wool & cotton; dyeing & weaving; spinning flax; curing & tanning; making bricks & tiles; working in stone; working in metal; building & thatching; scything; working in wood; household items; making a pond & fish farming; the all-purpose furnace. Things you need to know: becoming a self-supporter.

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In an idyllic corner of the south Somerset countryside, blackbirds chirrup, cart horses swish their tails and a restless wind susurrates through the boughs of a stand of Douglas firs as a cheery band of twenty-to-fiftysomethings pitch in to gather the hay. But for the reusable water bottles and walking boots, they might be characters in an English pastoral, bowed over their rural labours. "When I came here from Brighton I was surprised by how loud it was," says Meg Willoughby, 28, a resident of Tinkers Bubble. "I had this idea of the peaceful woodland from fairytales, but farm animals are noisy, and when a hill wind blows through firs they make a crazy cracking sound. Nature is wild, isn't it?"

Founded in 1994, Tinkers Bubble is England's leading off-grid woodland community: an experiment in rural living that provides low-impact dwellings and a land-based livelihood to a changing roster of 16 residents. In April, it was granted permanent planning permission by South Somerset council, an achievement heralded as a landmark in off-grid communities' long attempts to be accepted by mainstream Britain (and its planning department mandarins). They celebrated this success in May with song and home-brewed cider. "Though we're not big drinkers," Willoughby says, laughing. "We're usually back in our cabins with a book by 8pm."

Named after an ancient bubbling spring at the site's south-western edge, Tinkers Bubble occupies a 16-hectare (40-acre) parcel of land, eight hectares of which is evergreen forest. It is owned by a community benefit society, and the current residents, most of whom arrive as summer volunteers, are sustained by the income from a steam-powered sawmill, apple orchard and press (which produces a lively dry cider) and cottage food production, including heritage salad leaves. The community's 20 dwellings and outbuildings are dotted around a thatched communal roundhouse, all sitting amid the lofty firs. As part of their planning permission, the community is thinning the North American conifers, which were planted for timber in the 1950s, to encourage regeneration in the forest understorey - the ground-level layer of shrubs and plants. "It's lovely to see native yew saplings return," Willoughby says.

Self-sufficient woodland communities are a fringe phenomenon in the pantheon of "intentional communities" (the umbrella term for social units in which members share a dwelling and lifestyle, encapsulating everything from traditional communes to co-housing projects), says Chris Coates, editor of Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living. "For a start," he says, "there isn't much woodland in Britain compared to places like Bulgaria and Romania [popular spots for founding intentional communities]. Plus, if you're talking about living self-sufficiently in and from a woodland, it's hard work, and best suits the young and fit."

He adds, however, that for those willing to take a risk with planning permission, the costs can be less than for bricks-and-mortar alternatives. Coates knows of a number of smaller communities and family groups who "fly beneath the radar", living in pockets of woodland away from local authority oversight.

Formal land-based communities with a woodland aspect include Landmatters, a rural permaculture co-operative in south Devon, set amid 17 hectares of pasture and semi-natural ancient woodland; Coed Talylan, a 28-hectare community on the edge of the Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons), where people live in cabin-style dwellings and run a natural building school and mushroom-growing business; and Brithdir Mawr in Pembrokeshire, a community of 10 adults and seven children on 34 hectares of land, including eight hectares of mature woodland and eight hectares of coppice.

Off-grid discussion groups, meanwhile, bristle with aspirant woodland smallholders looking for land and community members. They include Agatha B, 30, an accountant from Surrey who is buying a pocket of woodland in Wiltshire in the hope of setting up a residential medieval farm. "We want to make it a bit like [open-air experimental archaeology museum] Butser Ancient Farm," Agatha says. "But a real-life version that people live on." Woodland off-gridders often speak evocatively of Britain's heritage of woodland dwelling: from the Forest of Arden's "melancholy boughs" as the setting for love and intrigue, but also ,shepherds' hard labour, in Shakespeare's play As You Like It; and Celtic traditions, in which blackthorn trees are infested by mischievous fairies, ash is nature's healer and oaks are the sacred old men of the British landscape (the term "druid", for the Celtic priestly class, translates as "oak man").

Alex Toogood, 34, has lived at Tinkers Bubble since 2020 and was instrumental in its successful permanent planning bid. Toogood, who is non-binary, was working as an engineer in London when the pandemic struck, and felt disposable. "I realised that if I left my job one day they would slot someone else into it the next," Toogood says. "I was a cog."

Toogood arrived at Tinkers Bubble in a lull between Covid lockdowns, via a stint in a Buddhist monastery in Scotland, and here, amid the daily work of tending the vegetable beds and orchards, maintaining the woodland and milking Daisy, the dairy cow, life made sense. "Today everything I choose to do has an impact on the people around me, and on the animals and the land," Toogood says.

Tinkers Bubble residents coalesce naturally into teams depending on their practical aptitudes, Willoughby says, as we chat in the sunshine during her break from tending her flourishing crop of chervil, calendula and sweet grass. She has also been at Tinkers Bubble for two years, and comes from a family of leftist smallholders (her mum runs a community-supported farm agricultural business near Glastonbury). Willoughby spent several years in Brighton before returning, as she puts it, "to the mother trees".

A horse team looks after the three horses that are essential to the smooth running of this fossil fuel-free - and therefore car-free - community. There's also a cow team, who produce milk and cottage and hard cheese, and care for the new community calf, Bjorn. Carpenter Richard fashions the rakes we are using for today's hay gathering, and vegetable-growers Toogood and Willoughby contribute to Tinkers Bubble's food self-sufficiency and sell to local shops. "Every day I wake up to birdsong and walk through the woods to milk Daisy - and think how incredibly lucky I am," Willoughby says. People often drift into Tinkers Bubble in need of nature's TLC, particularly summer and day volunteers, she says: "They come broken down and, like me, are brought back to life by nature."

Toogood took over one of the community polytunnels in their first week and dug a pond immediately. "It's hopping with frogs today, and that makes me proud," they say.

Jenny Pickerill, an environmental geographer who studies land-based intentional communities at the University of Sheffield, says it's a mistake to dismiss these projects as vestiges of hippy nostalgia. "It's easy to project stereotypes on to low-impact rural communes - that they are isolationist, or living in the past," she says. She believes the opposite is true: "These groups are testing radical ways of living that will have applications for all of our futures, whether that's innovations such as straw-bale housing - a material that is abundant and perfect for this climate - or hyper-local food chains."

Toogood believes that a broader shift around environmental issues is making a case for land-based communities. In the latest planning application, Tinkers Bubble "spoke our own language", rather than attempting to couch their project in "planning department speak", as they had in previous applications. (They were awarded temporary planning permission in 1998, 2004 and 2016.) The bid was accompanied by letters of support from the local community, who buy Tinkers Bubble juice, cider and salad, and attend craft demonstrations and folk singalongs in the wood. Local relations have not always been as harmonious. In the 90s, when tensions ran high over the rights of travelling communities, rumours spread that Tinkers Bubble residents were drug-users and thieves. "And baby-stealers," Willoughby says. "Totally bonkers, that one."

Heather Baker, 34, has lived at Brithdir Mawr since 2019 with her partner, George. Their daughter, Ursa, two, was born in the community, which occupies a mixture of stone and wooden dwellings in 32 hectares of ancient woodland, coppice and pasture in the Preseli mountains of Pembrokeshire, a landscape dotted with the bluestones found at Stonehenge. Brithdir Mawr was granted planning permission in 2008. In 2011, Wales launched its groundbreaking One Planet Development policy, which grants planning permission to low-impact, land-based projects such as Brithdir, which use a fair per capita share of the planet's resources. Cornwall has been consulting on a similar policy.

I wanted to bring up my own children as part of a tribe, with other adults and children to help to raise them

Unlike Tinkers Bubble, Brithdir Mawr members work outside the community, some as teachers and nurses, others in land-management areas such as seed production. Baker works 20 hours a week at Brithdir, and also part-time at a Steiner school. It was her first career in maternal mental health in Scotland that prompted Baker to seek out a radical new lifestyle. "I saw so much isolation in new mothers," she says. "I wanted to bring up my own children as part of a tribe, with other adults and children to help to raise them."

The best bit for Baker, however, has been working physically on the land. "Whether it's cutting wood, plaiting onions or milking goats, it all seems to make more sense than my old nine-to-five life, stressed out and living in a small flat," she says. Part of Brithdir Mawr's mandate is outreach. The community hosts 80-100 volunteers a year, who arrive as harried city dwellers to camp, or pay to stay in the community's trailers and wooden cottages, and pitch in with the land and woodland work. "You see the transformation immediately," Baker says. "It's ear-to-ear smiles, even if they are just lugging bags of manure."

Simeon Warburton, 62, has lived at Landmatters since 2012. A musician, he arrived at the 14-strong permaculture community after leaving London to raise his family on the road and in alternative communities. In 2005, Simeon and his wife, Miranda, 54, set off with their son Izzy, five, and daughter Kuki, two, for what they call their years of "road schooling": "I couldn't bear the idea of having to get up every day for the school run," Warburton laughs. Occupied since 2005, Landmatters was awarded permanent planning permission for temporary housing structures in 2016. Life at the community is based on the ethos of permaculture (an approach to agriculture and settlement that seeks to be self-sufficient and environmentally sustainable) and consuming one's fair share of the planet's resources. "But everyone interprets that mandate in the way they think best," Warburton adds.

Landmatters' eight households live in handbuilt wooden cabins, and each have an annual allocation of two cubic metres of wood for personal and commercial use. Simeon and Miranda make wooden totems from their timber and run a solar-powered recording studio at the site. Izzy, 23, and Kuki, 20, live between Landmatters and city lives: Kuki is a tree surgeon and yoga teacher; Izzy is a blacksmith and record producer. "They had a fortunate upbringing in nature," Warburton says. "It has turned them into happy and thoughtful young people." It can be hard, he admits, to live in a land-based community, which demands energy, effort and a good deal of patience of its members, but the reward, he adds, is reconnection to nature's rhythms and other people.

"My childhood was a life lived in the box of a suburban home," he says. "Here, life is cyclical: we live among the beeches and oaks, the meadow flowers and insects. In spring and summer we're busy growing and hosting visitors, and in winter we withdraw and make our crafts." From his vantage point, Warburton concludes, urban capitalist lifestyles seem odd.

"I get it if you're working 60 hours a week and winning at that lifestyle and making tons of money," he says. "Though I would ask if you're really happy if you're working all hours at a job you hate and still not making ends meet."

In Jenny Pickerill's view, modern rural lifestyles are the strangest of the lot. "There's this idea that you need a massive car and oil-fired central heating to live in the countryside," she says. Low-impact communities such as Tinkers Bubble, she says, propose a socially just and nature-sympathetic model of rural living. "They show we can live within woodland and harvest bits of it sustainably. We don't have to fence it off in the name of conservation."

Hay slowly piles up in a wooden cart as Tinkers Bubble residents and volunteers break into song. I depart from this rural idyll, somewhat sheepishly, in a petrol-fuelled taxi driven by south Somerset-born Steve, who regards me quizzically when I say I've come from Tinkers Bubble. "We used to think they were dopeheads and dogs-on-a-string sort of people," he says. He pauses. "But I see them these days with their bikes and horses, selling cider and apple juice in the village and - you know what? - I think they have got life about right."

This article was amended on 14 July 2023 to correct the name of the university that Jenny Pickerill is affiliated to; it is Sheffield, not Cardiff as an earlier version had it.

For more information about Tinkers Bubble, including details of its annual open day held in the autumn and volunteer afternoons throughout summer, click here. For more information on camping at Brithdir Mawr, click here

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The rise of woodland off-gridders: 'It makes more sense than a nine-to-five'

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Are self-sufficient rural communities an idea whose time has come? A few years ago, councils and neighbours tended to write them off as hippies. Now attitudes are changing

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some initial ideas including a proposal for a site specific installation that deals with data visualisation by physically obstructing the passage of the viewer through a space, ending with the need to collaborate with others in order to exit the room.

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Visualising complex data (for whatever topic we choose, I would be delighted to visualise the data and infos where are working on, for example if it's about permaculture like Roberta suggested or the sea level rising etc!! There's so much we can do!!

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Visualising complex data (for whatever topic we choose, I would be delighted to visualise the data and infos where are working on, for example if it's about permaculture like Roberta suggested or the sea level rising etc!! There's so much we can do!!

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Most conversations about climate change have a global lens. Yet, for people to more efficiently engage in climate action initiatives, they need to see themselves and their own local communities in the narrative. That is precisely what a trio of organizations are doing-driving local conversations about climate change. Let's dive into the work of these impactful organizations and learn more about how they are using data to change the local narrative on climate action.

Making sense of complex climate change data

In 2016, Headwaters Economics began partnering with Tableau to build their data capacity to identify and solve problems related to the use of natural resources. Headwaters has been able to produce powerful visualizations to help communities make sense of complex climate change data and issues. They use Tableau to provide powerful, easily understandable data visualizations to local governments, decision-makers, and community leaders to inform community development and land management decisions.

Part of this work includes collecting economic data from communities around National Monuments and National Parks, and creating visualizations showing that preserving land provides economic benefits to surrounding communities. As an example of this effort, Headwaters created two dashboards to visualize the unequal impacts of wildfire in the United States-one providing nation-wide information and another one for state-level data.

These dashboards allow users to click, navigate, and learn about effective land-use planning measures to mitigate wildfire risks at the home and community levels. Headwaters also provides best practices to shift the wildfire narrative from focusing on issues like the number of acres burned to the number of buildings destroyed and the local community cost of the destruction. Headwaters' goal is to increase awareness about how people think about wildfires and the policies for managing them.

The Unequal Impacts of Wildfire Risk - National level

According to Kelly Pohl, associate director of Headwaters Economics, "A lot of leaders don't actually have a good sense of where exposure to wildfire intersects social and economic vulnerability. And so our goal was to provide access to that information so that policymakers, especially at the national and state levels, could understand not only where wildfire risk is high, but where people may need extra support in preparing for and recovering from wildfire."

The Unequal Impacts of Wildfire by State

With Tableau, Headwaters has created high-quality, powerful dashboards that local governments, decision-makers, and community leaders can use to help communities identify where people may be vulnerable, and how strategies such as land use planning can help reduce risk. Using Tableau, the Headwaters dashboards show how critical data is for understanding the risks of a complex problem like climate change-but also for identifying potential solutions.

Tableau first partnered with Grist in 2019 to support the creation of a new climate data journalism team focused on bolstering data-driven communications infrastructure in the climate movement. Since then, we have extended our partnership to increase the number of people that believe climate is a social justice issue and the number of people who believe that climate change can be stopped. This team is focused on producing high-quality data journalism and visualization, in partnership with local and national media on distribution to reach new audiences.

Zombie wells - Count of and percentage change in orphan wells, 2019-2021

As Grist's Senior Data Reporter, Clayton Aldern, explains in an If Data Could Talk interview, "You can only tell the story of climate change if you tell it as a local story. And so we argue climate change and environmental justice by definition is a local issue, something that happens in place. We partner with local newsrooms in our reporting, we seek to tell stories that appeal to both a national audience, but to a community for whom stories are most relevant."

If Data Could Talk: How Data Storytelling Drives Climate Action with Clayton Aldern, Grist

Clayton Aldern leads this data-journalism unit focused on telling persuasive, visual data-driven stories for how to decarbonize the planet. Their goal is to reach the public, shape discourse and inspire action in the streets.

Access to data is another key aspect of Grist's partnership with Tableau. As Clayton Aldern highlights, the partnership allows "reporters to have access to the data they need when they need it." Tableau provides introductions to Tableau's customers and partners that have relevant socioeconomic, demographic and climate data that is critical to Grist's reporting.

Keeling to the ceiling - Atmospheric carbon dioxide, parts per million

Thanks to this partnership, Grist has built one of the nation's premier data journalism and visualization units focused on climate change.

Improving forest management and market transformation

The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has 25 years of experience in sustainable forest management. They have certified and protected 231M hectares (500M acres) of forest across 89 countries.

Their partnership with Tableau started in 2019 to enable their vision for improving the use of data to protect global forests. Using Tableau, FSC has built a map to provide a new way to see the growth in global forest area certified to FSC Principles and Criteria, as well as the global supply chain certification growth.

This data enables FSC to display the most up-to-date information in an easy-to-understand format, and enables users to download the datasets directly with an improved and intuitive interface. This information is particularly relevant for local communities where FSC has managed forests, as they need to stay informed about local, country-specific adaptations of FSC standards.

Local communities benefit from FSC certification in many ways, including better working conditions, access to new markets, increased income for the community, and preservation of wildlife. These and other factors are captured among the environmental, social, and economic outcomes of the FSC Impact Dashboard.

With these insights, FSC has a better understanding of their local impact, as well as information needed to better allocate resources and address challenges, ensuring that FSC continues to improve sustainable forestry standards worldwide.

As we celebrate Earth Month, we want to raise awareness about impactful organizations transforming the traditional climate narrative using data to effectively advocate for climate action.

These are only a few examples of how Tableau is helping partners incorporate diverse voices into local conversations to develop data-driven equitable climate solutions. To learn more about our work in Climate Action visit our website.

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Using data to drive conversations about climate change

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Distilling the world’s data, information & knowledge into beautiful infographics & visualizations

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Leonardo Boff: How Mysticism Can Heal the Planet

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An exhibition made a while ago about the art in Solentiname, a revolutionary community in Nicaragua that is one of my mayor historical inspirations when it comes to the topic of the power of art in social and political transformation (also extendable to ecological considerations even if it is not explicitly mentioned in the exhibition's material).

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In 1965, a spiritual, political, and artistic movement emerged in an archipelago in the south of Nicaragua: Solentiname. Ernesto Cardenal, a leading poet and priest, established this community in its remote location on Lake Nicaragua. The exhibition Dream of Solentiname looks at this key moment in the relationship between aesthetics and politics in Central America as well as its impact on artists working in New York City during the 1980s as the Contra War against the new Sandinista government was underway.

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En 1965 surgió un movimiento espiritual, político y artístico en un archipiélago al sur de Nicaragua: Solentiname. Ernesto Cardenal, sacerdote y connotado poeta, fundó esta comunidad en un lugar remoto del Gran Lago de Nicaragua.

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This exhibition made in Puerto Rico (where I come from) "examines three central themes: the rights of nature; sovereignty and resistance; and the recovery of knowledge through artisan practices incorporated into contemporary art practices by artists located in the Caribbean and the Americas. This group of artists shares interests in a growing appreciation and study of the vernacular and approaches art from regenerative practices, the use of natural materials and local production and consumption towards a true emancipation. Others use technology and its ways of representing nature to reflect on the social and cultural effects of our exploration of the world and the universe."

**Apparently most of the material is in Spanish but the video has English subtitles and gives a great explanation of the ideas behind the exhibition.

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MUSEO DE ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE PUERTO RICO

BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Rafael Flores Pérez, President
María Awilda Quintana-Román, Vice President
José Negrón, Treasurer
Antonio García, Secretary
Salvador Alemañy
Rubén Méndez Benabe
Rashid Molinary
Pedro Muñoz Marín
Ana L. Rivero Iturregui
Luis Fernando Rodríguez
María Elba Torres

MUSEUM STAFF
Marianne Ramírez Aponte, Executive Director and Chief Curator

Evita Busa, Deputy Director and Education Director

Wanda Michelle Dilán, Administrator

Marina Reyes Franco, Curator

Mariela Collazo Heredia, Registrar

Pablo Serrano Otero, Preparator

Sebastián Gutiérrez and Esteban Alberty, Assistant Preparators

Natalia M. Centeno López and Joudy Santaliz, Education Coordinators

Karin Cardona, Head Archivist

Windy Cosme, Project Manager, MAC en el Barrio

Donald Escudero and Welmo Romero Joseph, Coordinators, MAC en el Barrio

Glorimar Marrero Sánchez and Javier Colón Ríos, La 18, Unidad Audiovisual

Carolina Cortés, Fundraising

Brenna Quigley, Development Coordinator

Paola Solís, Special Events

Dalila Rodríguez Saavedra, Communications Coordinator

Julia Ejarque Torres and Alexnel Suárez, Administrative Assistants

Jorge Pardo, Shop

EDITORIAL DESIGN
Ingrid Bonetti Veloz

PHOTOGRAPHY
Raquel Pérez Puig

TRANSLATION
Marina Reyes Franco
Andrew Hurley (Foreword)

MAC SPONSORS
Fundación Segarra Boerman e Hijos, Inc.,
Fondo Flamboyán para las Artes,
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation,
Comisión Especial Conjunta de Fondos
Legislativos para Impacto Comunitario,
Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña y
National Endowment for the Arts,
Fundación Puertorriqueña de las Humanidades y National Endowment for the Humanities
mediante la Ley CARES,
Ford Foundation,
Neeuko/Centro de Innovación Colaborativa
de la Universidad del Sagrado Corazón,
Liberty Business

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The Moment of the Yagrumo - Google Arts & Culture

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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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So we spoke about the audience potentially being young adults to older adults, which could be good. I do think though we could consider doing something for children- where instead of causing worry we create a sense of hopefulness and engage with a young group to start making a difference. I do think it depends on what we want to make though. I am going to start to look at some of the previous projects and see what sort of things they have done.

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All We Can Save is an anthology of writings by 60 women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration.

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All We Can Save is an anthology of writings by 60 women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward. There is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration.

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures

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NET-ZERO - Regenerative Agriculture can play a key role in combating climate change

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NET-ZERO - Regenerative Agriculture can play a key role in combating climate change

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One Earth’s mission is to empower everyone, everywhere, with the knowledge, inspiration, and opportunity to heal the Earth and reclaim our future.

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Ways Mycelium can be used in Architecture:

biodegradable building materials- combining mycelium with agricultural waste such as straw it is possible to form strong, lightweight and eco-friendly composite materials

mycelium bricks and panels- mycelium can be moulded into various shapes- allowing the creation of bricks, panels, and other building components.

there is research going on at the moment to look at mycelium as a structural material- it could contribute to lightweight and sustainable structural elements such as columns

ecological insulation- mycelium based materials have good insulating properties and can help regulate temperature, provide acoustic insulation and contribute to energy efficiency

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Fungi networks play a crucial role in helping forests limit climate change. A project mapping this 'Wood Wide Web' will find out more about how it works.