"After COP30, what now? It’s actually good news"

My piece in today’s East Anglia Bylines
eastangliabylines.co.uk/environment/...

It’s the shape of story across all ages and human cultures.

You’re in a hole. Then you get out.

"How Dragons Link Culture and Nature: And Fill Places Full of Story"
www.youtube.com/@JulesPretty58

Dragons all over the place.
In story and saga.

Story and place and culture are intertwined.

Dragons help us tell stories. And stories make places culturally important.

We then care for them more

Cloud Mountain, Thunder Dragon: Stories of Gross National Happiness

Climate Cultures Blog: climatecultures.net/cultural-cha...

The rest of the world fell in a hole caused by fossil fuels, and isn’t sure how to get out. Bhutan never fell in the hole

Your age of oil, they ask? It’ll soon be over

The Whale Is Saving Us

The latest film in the “Story for Climate and Nature Recovery.”
www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6g-...

The narrative arc of this story. Down, up, and up even more.

We should be praising the whale.

Regenerating marine environments and ports, fixing carbon. The whale pump.

"Tricksters in Story"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8z9...

Tricksters are in all kinds of story. They're people, they're animals.

They tell of serious things in an unserious way.

Tricksters get us in the game.

Just what is needed when it comes to the climate and nature crises.

New YouTube channel just launched. New films on "Story for Climate and Nature Reecovery" www.youtube.com/@JulesPretty58

Four playlists on Story, Regenerative Cultures, Sagas of Rising Seas, and Nature Recovery

On Friday @julespretty.bsky.social gave us a fascinating talk exploring how narrative, storytelling, and culture can transform climate action, nature recovery, and biodiversity conservation.

@ymalhi.bsky.social has written a reflection on the talk which you can read here

026 The Shamans of Siberia
Latest in The Climate Chronicles

This is what nature recovery and regeneration looks like.
Close to the land, collective action, ritual and ceremony.

julespretty.com/chronicles/0...

“The main task of shamans is to protect nature.”

025 Appy and the Eel

The Climate Chronicles
julespretty.com/chronicles/0...

“I first had a silver eel,” says the man to the two birds.
This is Appy.
He alone can speak Eel.

Some people there are turning back one tide. The land wet and fertile again.
All joined up in one Great Fen.

Is A River Alive?

“Yes of course!”
Says Rob Macfarlane’s son when he hears the title of his father’s book.
“It’ll be a short one too.”

Words and story, shared, they can change the way we see the world, and our readiness to act.

Story leads to agency.

A fabulous book, compelling and kind.

Latest in The Climate Chronicles series just posted: “Three Grapefruits.”
julespretty.com/chronicles/0...
In times of crisis, words often fail us. This story starts: “I will tell of gifts and giving, she says.”

All previous 21 Chronicles also revised and updated: julespretty.com/chronicles/

From the old farm
Soaked by drizzle and cherry blossom
The smell of leaking silage liquor.

Under wild cherries,
While viewing bluebell blossom,
The sudden laugh of the woodpecker.

The next Great Acceleration

We could call these positive hockey sticks, heading for tipping points and whole systems changing

Drawn from our 2025 paper on “Regenerative Good Growth”
Accessible here: doi.org/10.3390/su17...

The Climate Chronicles 015: Revenge

Spring. The flush of fresh leaves.
Trees lime-green beneath blue sky.
Nightingales in the valley. Swallows overhead.

So the bat comes as a messenger. She’s a survivor from a former age, when mice ran after cats.

julespretty.com/chronicles/0...

Latest story from “The Climate Chronicles”
022 The Wise King Cnut

[3 mins reading time: full story here: julespretty.com/chronicles/2... ]

There was once a king, quite a wise young man.
You will have heard of him, his name is Cnut.

This is his story.

The tide is coming in.

Global researchers led by @julespretty.bsky.social with @erikjacobi.bsky.social and @leannehep.bsky.social have proposed a new vision for Regenerative Good Growth, that will create green economies whilst protecting the planet.

www.essex.ac.uk/news/2025/03...

It’s Chiffchaff Arrival Week

At Wrabness Nature Reserve, humid after rain, curlew & oyster catcher calling from the muds, chiffchaff in great numbers

That’s it. Last week it has to have been “Woodpecker Drumming Week”

It could be too “Blackthorn Blossom Viewing Week”
Nature and culture together