"How Dragons Link Culture and Nature: And Fill Places Full of Story"
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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

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.

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...

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.

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