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An online space & network for artists, researchers & curators exploring creative responses to the planetary climate & nature emergency: blog, Creative Showcase, Longer essays & other features. Creative conversations for the Anthropocene. Created 2017.
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The climate/nature emergency is a failure of imagination. Through my ClimateCultures platform, I'm working with creative minds to engage our imaginations. 'ClimateCultures & more' will share examples,...
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Created in 2017 & now with 250+ members, we've built an 8-year, free archive of original content from our members for all to explore - see our blog, Creative Showcase & Longer essays for new content too.
In our latest ClimateCultures blog post, researcher and writer @julespretty.bsky.social's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of hope and regeneration through its common focus on Gross National Happiness.
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Cloud Mountain, Thunder Dragon: Stories of Gross National Happiness - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Jules Pretty's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of its focus on Gross National Happiness.
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November 27, 2025 at 11:28 AM
In our latest ClimateCultures blog post, researcher and writer @julespretty.bsky.social's climb to Bhutan's Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation's story of hope and regeneration through its common focus on Gross National Happiness.
climatecultures.net/cultural-cha...
climatecultures.net/cultural-cha...
New in our Creative Showcase, artist Hanien Conradie shares her new exhibition. Water-Verse showcases a decade of painting, film & performance with water as both medium & teacher.
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Water-Verse: Traces of the Traceless - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Hanien Conradie's Water-Verse exhibition showcases ainting, film and performance with water as both medium and teacher.
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November 19, 2025 at 8:59 AM
New in our Creative Showcase, artist Hanien Conradie shares her new exhibition. Water-Verse showcases a decade of painting, film & performance with water as both medium & teacher.
climatecultures.net/portfolio/wa...
climatecultures.net/portfolio/wa...
New on the ClimateCultures blog: Julian Bishop shares 3 new poems written in response to Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', where dissension between its famous fairy characters plays out in ‘distemperature’ and ruptures in the patterns of nature and the affairs of humans.
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'A Midsummer Night’s Dream' of Climate Crisis & Poetic Response - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Julian Bishop responds to A Midsummer Night’s Dream with poems on dissension between its famous fairy characters and its ruptures in nature.
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November 13, 2025 at 2:38 PM
New on the ClimateCultures blog: Julian Bishop shares 3 new poems written in response to Shakespeare’s 'A Midsummer Night’s Dream', where dissension between its famous fairy characters plays out in ‘distemperature’ and ruptures in the patterns of nature and the affairs of humans.
wp.me/p8dsAT-5re
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New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase: Writer & researcher Jules Pretty presents 'Story for Climate and Nature Recovery', his YouTube channel featuring short films with stories about people and places and exploring how story can help bring transformation.
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Story for Climate and Nature Recovery - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Jules Pretty's Story for Climate and Nature Recovery YouTube channel offers short films on how story can help bring transformation.
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November 10, 2025 at 2:25 PM
New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase: Writer & researcher Jules Pretty presents 'Story for Climate and Nature Recovery', his YouTube channel featuring short films with stories about people and places and exploring how story can help bring transformation.
climatecultures.net/portfolio/st...
climatecultures.net/portfolio/st...
The new Substack from ClimateCultures' Mark Goldthorpe, 'Changing paths through woods and waters', reflects on desire lines in the landscape as ways to reconnect with the more-than-human & our need to expand our failing ‘consciousness contract’.
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Changing paths through woods and waters
Reconnecting our desire lines to the more-than-human
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November 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
The new Substack from ClimateCultures' Mark Goldthorpe, 'Changing paths through woods and waters', reflects on desire lines in the landscape as ways to reconnect with the more-than-human & our need to expand our failing ‘consciousness contract’.
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New on the ClimateCultures blog, artist Julien Masson's a recent Southampton community collaboration with artists, residents & businesses. They've used recycled garden furniture, instruments & miscellaneous timber found locally to create public art that transforms public spaces.
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Heritage, Art and Community Collaboration - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Artist Julien Masson shares a community collaboration with artists, residents and businesses, using recycled items and timber.
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October 31, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New on the ClimateCultures blog, artist Julien Masson's a recent Southampton community collaboration with artists, residents & businesses. They've used recycled garden furniture, instruments & miscellaneous timber found locally to create public art that transforms public spaces.
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New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase, artist Michael Gresalfi's 'Drop the Beef': a 1940s cabaret-style saxophone blues combining original lyrics & AI instructions to ask us to consider the environmental impacts of our food production and consumption.
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'Drop the Beef' - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Michael Gresalfi's blues asks us to consider how our intensive animal farming produces a significant amount of the greenhouse gas methane.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
New in the ClimateCultures Creative Showcase, artist Michael Gresalfi's 'Drop the Beef': a 1940s cabaret-style saxophone blues combining original lyrics & AI instructions to ask us to consider the environmental impacts of our food production and consumption.
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climatecultures.net/portfolio/dr...
In our latest post, researcher & writer Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction -- writing stories to entertain, raise awareness of effective climate action & inspire sustainable behaviours -- and her latest thrutopian novel, 'The Philosopher and the Assassin'.
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Finding the Tipping Points with Thrutopian Fiction - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction and her latest response with the novel The Philosopher and the Assassin.
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October 6, 2025 at 2:23 PM
In our latest post, researcher & writer Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction -- writing stories to entertain, raise awareness of effective climate action & inspire sustainable behaviours -- and her latest thrutopian novel, 'The Philosopher and the Assassin'.
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Our new post: Dr Anna Hartnell marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina to highlight the human causes (“There is no such thing as a natural disaster”) while questioning ‘Anthropocene’ labellings of human nature as hard-wired for destruction.
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Hurricane Katrina and the Human - No 'Natural Disaster'? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Researcher Ann Hartnell marks the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, highlighting that “There is no such thing as a natural disaster”
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September 22, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Our new post: Dr Anna Hartnell marks 20 years since Hurricane Katrina to highlight the human causes (“There is no such thing as a natural disaster”) while questioning ‘Anthropocene’ labellings of human nature as hard-wired for destruction.
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“Our maps (mental or actual) and our language are two ways in which, even as we describe and value the natural world of which we are a part, we almost inadvertently ‘other’ it, set it apart in some way. ...
In other words
Art, maps and language for woodland connection
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September 18, 2025 at 7:22 AM
“Our maps (mental or actual) and our language are two ways in which, even as we describe and value the natural world of which we are a part, we almost inadvertently ‘other’ it, set it apart in some way. ...
New on the ClimateCultures blog: Mary Waltham introduces her and fellow artist Jackie Amies’ joint exhibition on their local ancient woodland. Their art invites our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas, which have been largely untouched by human activity since before 1600.
Ancient Woodland - A Celebration of Place - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Mary Waltham introduces a joint exhibition on local ancient woodland, inviting our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas.
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September 8, 2025 at 11:41 AM
New on the ClimateCultures blog: Mary Waltham introduces her and fellow artist Jackie Amies’ joint exhibition on their local ancient woodland. Their art invites our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas, which have been largely untouched by human activity since before 1600.
The latest 'ClimateCultures & more' post on Substack, looks at the sense of agency that hope brings - in contrast with being overwhelmed by the climate and nature emergency or complacent from blind techno-optimism that ‘progress’ inevitably cures its own problems - through the lens of Hope Tales.
Gathering in hope
Imagination for stuck times
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September 3, 2025 at 1:37 PM
The latest 'ClimateCultures & more' post on Substack, looks at the sense of agency that hope brings - in contrast with being overwhelmed by the climate and nature emergency or complacent from blind techno-optimism that ‘progress’ inevitably cures its own problems - through the lens of Hope Tales.
New on ClimateCultures: Excited to share 2 new pieces from artist & researcher Iain Biggs.
In short read, Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? he introduces 2 fictional-poetic explorations of places that are never static, always in process.
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In short read, Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? he introduces 2 fictional-poetic explorations of places that are never static, always in process.
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Between 'The Valley' and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Iain Biggs introduces two works that offer 'narrative deep mappings' as explorations of places that are never static, always in process.
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August 25, 2025 at 9:46 AM
New on ClimateCultures: Excited to share 2 new pieces from artist & researcher Iain Biggs.
In short read, Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? he introduces 2 fictional-poetic explorations of places that are never static, always in process.
wp.me/p8dsAT-5mT
In short read, Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings? he introduces 2 fictional-poetic explorations of places that are never static, always in process.
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Our latest Substack picks up on a recent item about the atmospheric impact (literally) of the great satellite acceleration of the last decade, which now builds in the deliberate 'phase out' of redundant machinery by burning up by re-entry. ...
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De-orbiting our sense of self-importance
The problem with industrial imagination
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August 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Our latest Substack picks up on a recent item about the atmospheric impact (literally) of the great satellite acceleration of the last decade, which now builds in the deliberate 'phase out' of redundant machinery by burning up by re-entry. ...
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New on our blog: Citizen artist Yky challenges fellow artists to consider their roles & responsibilities, alongside those of scientific experts, in how their art engages audiences & other citizens to overcome linear thinking in questions of urban resilience & social complexity.
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When Mr Jones ... On the Artist, Responsibility & Linear Thinking - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Yky challenges fellow artists to consider how their art engages audiences in overcoming linear thinking in climate resilience and complexity.
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August 11, 2025 at 8:50 AM
New on our blog: Citizen artist Yky challenges fellow artists to consider their roles & responsibilities, alongside those of scientific experts, in how their art engages audiences & other citizens to overcome linear thinking in questions of urban resilience & social complexity.
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In the latest Substack post for ClimateCultures&more, 'Here be dragons', ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe takes a lead from artist & researcher Iain Biggs and his recent thoughts on Ursula le Guin and the value of imagination.
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Here be dragons
The benefits of reading fictional worlds
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August 6, 2025 at 8:56 AM
In the latest Substack post for ClimateCultures&more, 'Here be dragons', ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe takes a lead from artist & researcher Iain Biggs and his recent thoughts on Ursula le Guin and the value of imagination.
climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/here-be-dr...
climateculturesandmore.substack.com/p/here-be-dr...
New on the ClimateCultures Blog:
Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's solutions-focused approaches to climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times towards a better future?
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Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's solutions-focused approaches to climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times towards a better future?
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Thrutopian Fictions: Ways to a Better Future? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's approaches to our climate predicaments address the real challenges to a better future.
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July 28, 2025 at 10:33 AM
New on the ClimateCultures Blog:
Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's solutions-focused approaches to climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times towards a better future?
wp.me/p8dsAT-5lW
Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction's solutions-focused approaches to climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times towards a better future?
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New on the ClimateCultures blog!
Poet & artist-book maker Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the Imaginarium ‘Worlds in Progress’ retreat she is running for a second year: an open, fluid, multi-layered spacetime for writers to sow & care for the seeds of imagination.
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Poet & artist-book maker Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the Imaginarium ‘Worlds in Progress’ retreat she is running for a second year: an open, fluid, multi-layered spacetime for writers to sow & care for the seeds of imagination.
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Worlds in Progress: a Retreat to Feed the Seeds of Imagination - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the 'Worlds in Progress' retreat, a space and time for writers to sow and care for the seeds of imagination.
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July 14, 2025 at 9:18 AM
New on the ClimateCultures blog!
Poet & artist-book maker Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the Imaginarium ‘Worlds in Progress’ retreat she is running for a second year: an open, fluid, multi-layered spacetime for writers to sow & care for the seeds of imagination.
wp.me/p8dsAT-5li
Poet & artist-book maker Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the Imaginarium ‘Worlds in Progress’ retreat she is running for a second year: an open, fluid, multi-layered spacetime for writers to sow & care for the seeds of imagination.
wp.me/p8dsAT-5li
New at ClimateCultures, Jennifer Leach & Andrea Carr‘s Earth-arts organisation Outrider Anthems invites us into Bullwoman – a dreaming. Their collaborative Portal Theatre project brings everyday reality into rich contact with deeper worlds, suggesting new myths for our times.
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Bullwoman - Dream Portal - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Jennifer Leach & Andrea Carr's collaborative Portal Theatre project, 'Bullwoman - a dreaming', suggests a new myth for our times.
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June 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
New at ClimateCultures, Jennifer Leach & Andrea Carr‘s Earth-arts organisation Outrider Anthems invites us into Bullwoman – a dreaming. Their collaborative Portal Theatre project brings everyday reality into rich contact with deeper worlds, suggesting new myths for our times.
wp.me/p8dsAT-5ir
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New in our Creative Showcase:
Sculptor Dan Pooley's Road Gator Fossil blown-out tyre carved in metamorphic marble is an Anthropocene technofossil that may be found in future strata as a reminder of our environmental impact, coastal erosion & life's fragility.
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Sculptor Dan Pooley's Road Gator Fossil blown-out tyre carved in metamorphic marble is an Anthropocene technofossil that may be found in future strata as a reminder of our environmental impact, coastal erosion & life's fragility.
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Road Gator Fossil - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Dan Pooley's 'Road Gator Fossil' takes the form of a blown-out tyre carved in marble, a technofossil manifestation of the Anthropocene.
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June 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
New in our Creative Showcase:
Sculptor Dan Pooley's Road Gator Fossil blown-out tyre carved in metamorphic marble is an Anthropocene technofossil that may be found in future strata as a reminder of our environmental impact, coastal erosion & life's fragility.
climatecultures.net/portfolio/ro...
Sculptor Dan Pooley's Road Gator Fossil blown-out tyre carved in metamorphic marble is an Anthropocene technofossil that may be found in future strata as a reminder of our environmental impact, coastal erosion & life's fragility.
climatecultures.net/portfolio/ro...
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Our new #FlashFiction #competition has launched. We're asking for <500 words about moments of #epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. @climateculturesetc.bsky.social @andrealearned.bsky.social
Flash Fiction - Green Stories Project
Ended March 2020 Congratulations to our 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. The judges loved your writing! Here are the winners and a note from each writer on their fiction. 1st – Andrea Reisenauer, Th...
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June 9, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Our new #FlashFiction #competition has launched. We're asking for <500 words about moments of #epiphany where attitudes/behaviours change for the greener – see www.greenstories.org.uk/flash-fictio... £1000 ($1200) worth of prizes. @climateculturesetc.bsky.social @andrealearned.bsky.social
New on the ClimateCultures blog: Martin Mahony, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of East Anglia, introduces a new selection of student contributions to our online Museum of the Anthropocene.
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Anthropocene Naturecultures: Where are the Boundaries? - ClimateCultures - creative conversations for the Anthropocene
Martin Mahony introduces student essays asking important questions about the politics of drawing boundaries between ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’.
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May 30, 2025 at 8:26 AM
New on the ClimateCultures blog: Martin Mahony, Associate Professor in Human Geography at the University of East Anglia, introduces a new selection of student contributions to our online Museum of the Anthropocene.
climatecultures.net/learning-in-...
climatecultures.net/learning-in-...
Created in 2017 & now with 250+ members, we've built an 8-year, free archive of original content from our members for all to explore - see our blog, Creative Showcase & Longer essays for new content too.
ClimateCultures & more | Mark Goldthorpe | Substack
The climate/nature emergency is a failure of imagination. Through my ClimateCultures platform, I'm working with creative minds to engage our imaginations. 'ClimateCultures & more' will share examples,...
climateculturesandmore.substack.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
Created in 2017 & now with 250+ members, we've built an 8-year, free archive of original content from our members for all to explore - see our blog, Creative Showcase & Longer essays for new content too.