Skellig Foundation NGO: solidarity creates change
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Environmental Humanities/Irish Ambassador for the European Society for Literature, Science and Arts(SLSA-eu.org).
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Today I handed over the typescript of my new book Is A River Alive? to my editor & friend Simon Prosser. It felt—after 3+ yrs’ work—like a big moment. To mark it we walked up to the springs near my house, where a river is born—and the book begins & ends. More on the project below.
I'm part of the MOTH (More-Than-Human) Rights collective, based out of NYU Law. We've just released this book of essays, conversations & collaborations on the subject of MOTH rights & much beyond. It's free to all as a PDF/Kindle download. Pls share on. 👉mothrights.org/more-than-huma…
Yesterday I finished writing the huge bird-book that jackiemorris & I have been working on for 5 yrs now. A few hours later, a kingfisher streaked so close past my head I felt the breeze of its passing. Chance, of course—but it sure felt like a blessing! penguin.co.uk/articles/compa…
"live volcanic with kindness for all is transient as a child's wish and only kindness imparts loveliness to living more stubborn than death" Amen to that. Live volcanic with kindness... From the always-remarkable Maria Popova/The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings). More here: themarginalian.org/2024/07/26/alm…
When the Oxford children's dictionary discarded dozens of nature-words—"dandelion," "fern," "starling"—as irrelevant to children's imagination and replaced them with words like "broadband" and "cut-and-paste," this inspired act of resistance was born: themarginalian.org/2019/06/17/the…