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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · 9d

Big Doughnutty News.
Just out in Nature: the all-new 2025 Doughnut. Transformed from a single-year snapshot to an annual global monitor of 21st century social & ecological thriving. Available to all in an open-access paper by @andrewlfanning.bsky.social and me. 🧵 1/
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 14d

Beyond delighted that page 1 of Brene Brown’s new book takes us straight into a pickleball anecdote 😁

A photo of a hardback book “Strong Ground” by Brene Brown, which has a lovely rust brown cover with recurring drawn patterns with flowers and leaves in blues, pinks and black.

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 14d

“Flourishing and resilience are closely connected. Both voice a call for adaptation to the ebb and flow of events. They encourage us to be creative in generating resources. They urge us to shift perspectives, especially from victimisation to empowerment, and from power to humility.” - Yuria Celidwen

Photo of the book Flourishing Kin, by Yuria Celidwen

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Josh Artus @joshartus.bsky.social · 15d

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

Cities & Health @citiesxhealth.bsky.social · 16d

Community Health Impact Assessment by @joshartus.bsky.social et al.
🔍 #CityKnowHows
🔍A case study in developing a Health Impact Assessment from the eyes of a Community

www.cityknow-how.com/how-migratio...
#Cities4Health #HealthyCities #Community #HealthImpactAssessment

How migration and climate crisis impact the health of migrant populations in Santiago, Chile – City Know-how

www.cityknow-how.com

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 14d

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Raechel Kelly @raechelkelly.bsky.social · 21d

Lichen subscribe

Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · Aug 25

Saxicolous (stone) lichens, in some places thought to live for 11,500 years, challenge basic concepts like species, and some consider them more akin to actual ecosystems.

Their symbiotic relationships can be viewed as metaphors for resistance, resilience, and interconnection.

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 22d

Dipping into this gorgeous collection of new writing by people working on the land in the UK. It’s absolutely fascinating, and important. We all eat, so we all need to understand these challenges (IMO) and can be inspired by these stories of resistance, determination and regenerative approaches.

Photo of a small publication called ‘Common Treasures’ which has a moss green cover in beautiful thick card. Photo taken at a table with a mug of coffee :)

Photo of the back cover of a publication called ‘Common Treasures’ which features a description of the collection. The following is a similar description copied from Bandcamp, where it is for sale. “Common Treasures is a new series of books about the challenges faced by rural communities, written by people who are working on the ground and in the fields. Each volume gathers the very best essays about climate adaptation, food production and land use, and presents them as alternatives to the prevailing political discourse.”

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ShelterBox UK @shelterbox.bsky.social · 25d

Winter is coming to Gaza.

Over 1 million tarpaulins and 86,000 tents are ready, yet Israel has allowed in only 1,175. 1.4 million people urgently need shelter, but aid is blocked.

AID MUST BE ALLOWED IN.

This is a failure of humanity and a violation of international law.

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you Brooke. The words and weaving are my colleague Jo’s. We have situated our work in the Great Unraveling and Great Turning for many years. More than ever now we need to practice Active Hope xxx

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · 27d

Outgrowing Modernity
Navigating Complexity, Complicity, and Collapse with Accountability and Compassion
by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira 💚

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 29d

💕 to all of those ways of being. I hope some singing and / or music was involved. My dream now is Maff on the piano and you on the ukele 😁

Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · 29d

Did you meet (or do you already know) the wonderful Maff Potts? The thought of you two in the same room brings me great joy 💕

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · Aug 21

During our years of learning together we have come to understand that collective learning, if done with care, is a regenerative and liberatory practice. It goes well beyond exchange or growth of skills and knowledge, it generates ripples for the cultural waters we swim in.
medium.com/colab-dudley...

Collective learning is a liberatory practice that ripples through the cultural waters we swim in

A mini-series of lab notes from CoLab Dudley on nurturing a collective learning practice, and why we see this as integral to alternative…

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ShelterBox UK @shelterbox.bsky.social · Aug 19

For #WorldHumanitarianDay, we're focusing on the challenges faced when delivering aid in the world’s most volatile environments.

Hear from ShelterBox's Head of Security, as he discusses the risks and realities that define #humanitarian work today ⬇️

#WHD

Beyond the frontlines: security and solidarity in humanitarian work - ShelterBox

Discover how humanitarian workers face evolving security threats in crisis zones. On World Humanitarian Day, ShelterBox’

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ShelterBox UK @shelterbox.bsky.social · Aug 19

This #WorldHumanitarianDay, we remember and honour the lives of Haitham, Ahmad, and Batoul - our colleagues at Palestinian Agricultural Development Association who were killed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.

https://bit.ly/3HuNojd

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Dr Penny Hay @penahay.bsky.social · Aug 5

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · Aug 5

Liza Adamczewski (aka the Accidental Ecologist), artist who has created a series of 'Garden Icons' - mini paintings inspired by local wildlife #WomensArt

Painted artwork of a small bird with beak open perched on the stem of a green plant against a gold background

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · Aug 3

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

www.theguardian.com

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · Aug 1

Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Beautiful Digital Edition of the Poet’s Pressed Plants & Flowers Is Now Online

So many writers have been gardeners and have written about gardens that it might be easier to make a list of those who didn’t. But even in this crowded company, Emily Dickinson stands out.

www.openculture.com

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · Aug 4

so I am one of the 12 people (including the “god-fathers of AI”) that will be at the Vatican this September for a two full-day working group on the Future of AI

here is my Vatican approved short provocation on 'AI and Fraternity' for the working group

AI and Fraternity, Abeba Birhane, AI Accountability Lab

I envision a future where human dignity, justice, peace, kindness, care, respect, accountability, and rights and freedoms serve as the north stars that guide AI development and use. Realising these ideals can’t happen without intentional tireless work, dialogues, and confrontations of ugly realities – even if they are uncomfortable to deal with. This starts with deciphering hype from reality. Pervasive narratives portray AI as a magical, fully autonomous entity approaching a God-like omnipotence and omniscience. In reality, audits of AI systems reveal a consistent failure to deliver on grandiose promises and suffer from all kinds of shortcomings, issues often swept under the rug. AI in general, and GenAI in particular, encodes and exacerbates historical stereotypes, entrenches harmful societal norms, and amplifies injustice. A robust body of evidence demonstrates that — from hiring, welfare allocation, medical care allocation to anything in between — deployment of AI is widening inequity, disproportionately impacting people at the margins of society and concentrating power and influence in the hands of few. Major actors—including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI—have willingly aligned with authoritarian regimes and proactively abandoned their pledges to fact-check, prevent misinformation, respect diversity and equity, refrain from using AI for weapons development, while retaliating against critique. The aforementioned vision can’t and won’t happen without confrontation of these uncomfortable facts. This is precisely why we need active resistance and refusal of unreliable and harmful AI systems; clearly laid out regulation and enforcement; and shepherding of the AI industry towards transparency and accountability of responsible bodies. "Machine agency" must be in service of human agency and empowerment, a coexistence that isn't a continuation of modern tech corporations’ inequality-widening,

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · Aug 1

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Mothers of Plaza de Mayo - Wikipedia

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · Aug 1

Just watched this beautiful film and had a good old cry about all the “disappeared” people around the world.
www.imdb.com/title/tt2667...

The Penguin Lessons (2024) ⭐ 7.1 | Drama

1h 51m | PG-13

www.imdb.com

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · Jul 30

Want to dive deep into the explorations and thinking of an amazing PhD researcher and social lab team member? Start with this intro to a series of posts reflecting on practice, oriented towards co-creating conditions for regenerative cultures and life-centric futures.

medium.com/colab-dudley...

Stories of Place 2024–2025 Composting #3 | Co-creators as Earthworms

What if we were more like Earthworms in how we learn and do?

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Kate Raworth @kateraworth.bsky.social · Jul 2

What happens when the Western neoliberal economic mindset meets indigenous cosmology - I am hugely looking forward to this conversation. Join us in person in London (seats going fast) or online everywhere (seats for all) Weds 9th July. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ancestral-...

Ancestral Futures: Water, Wealth and Wisdom in a World on Fire

Join three of the most respected Indigenous leaders from Brazil and the Amazon in conversation with two of the UK’s most creative thinkers.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · Jun 29

Sending love xxx

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Lorna Prescott @lornaprescott.bsky.social · Jun 3

It’s Stories of Place at CoLab Dudley tonight. I’m exploring Dudley High Street with a cow as my (imaginary) companion, looking for a micro-space to name 🐄😊

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