For the #coronation you might like to think about taking your own alternative oath? Here's a handy guide: alternativeoath.uk #alternativeoath
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Father, inspirational keynote speaker and futurist, author of onlyplanet.co.uk, co-presenter of podcasts: ‘The Great Humbling’ &
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from brilliant artists for our precious . ++ super special bundle offer so you can grab an @earthpercentorg & @EvolutionMusiLP groundbreaking double A Evovinyl 12" release too! Tmrw is Bandcamp Friday, so even more ££ for climate orgs! twitter.com/earthpercentor…2
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Well, quite 🤔🤦♂️
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Tory government fomenting a panicked society by testing national alerts of “severe threats” whilst actively ignoring the climate, biodiversity, water, health, economic and energy crises is the Orwellian nightmare I want to wake up from.
Where was the alert on Earth day, morons?
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For #TheBigOne #biodiversity March today I’ve painted a frog’s eye…Nature is watching us to see what we do next. What will we feel under the weight of that unflinching gaze? Guilt? Fear? Love? Care? Solidarity? Or indifference? #iseeyou
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Feel the rhythm ❤️👏👍🙏💪
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#TheBigOne bringing the beautiful noise @ExtinctionR #ClimateJustice
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…. Then it acidified the oceans, and I did not speak out, Because I did not live in the oceans. Then it came for me—and there was nowhere left for me to live. 2/2
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First it came melting the ice caps, and I did not speak out, Because I did not live in the ice caps. Then it came burning the forests, and I did not speak out, Because I did not live in the forests…1/2
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It’s never too late to engineer serendipity…
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What if we courted more unexpected meetings and moments?
After an evening listening to @JANDTHEF, our reporter @EneLesikar traded growing mushrooms for tango moves! Here's what she learnt about herself through embracing #serendipity:
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This will be an essential read 🙏
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I'm delighted to announce my new book, out 29 June in the UK & 20 July in the US - in print, ebook & audio
Also delighted that @wigsandwords is writing a foreword
I'll say more about it soon
#NOtofarmfree
#AgrarianLocalism
#ASmallFarmFuture
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We need collective, deliberative wisdom, not desperate imposition. is right. Culture wars and simplistic knee-jerk 'backlash' are deadly dangerous distractions....
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“Governments… need to approach the policy process differently and use the tools at their disposal to bring citizens with them behind transformational green policies” Why #Sortition and independent #CitizensAssemblies are critical tools for transition socialeurope.eu/environmental-
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“There’s something endlessly fascinating about America’s record of contributing so handsomely to the climate crisis and then regarding it as a business opportunity with a workaround.” Great article on aviation ‘slutionz’. Will flying ever be green? Er. No.
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Thanks so much to @bel_jacobs and @frucool for their moving, thought-provoking and inspiring contributions to our Degrowth Debrief event for fashion and textiles colleagues at @NTUArtandDesign yesterday - so valuable to make space to think, dream and plan twitter.com/bel_jacobs/sta…
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Last call!
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Final 5 tickets for this bad boy: live pod of Jon Richardson & The Futurenauts podcast. 7.30pm. Friday 12 May. Always Be Comedy at Sambrook's Brewery, Wandsworth Town. Tickets: alwaysbecomedy.com/tickets
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Imagine playing in a football team that only judges it’s performance by the goals it scores, and ignores all the goals, and let’s face it own goals, it concedes. That would be madness wouldn’t it? *coughs*
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A poem ‘Histoire Horrible’ that bubbled up this morning after reading ’s piece in the on slavery…
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"What you do next personally and professionally on climate change will probably be the most important thing you ever do”
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This is SO eruditely argued, and so beautifully…a crack-creating poetic challenge of precious and sacred inspiration that just left me reeling (in a good way) beneath the whirling disco ball pinpoints of possible lights on a dance floor of uncertainty…
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Dedicated, reflective, broad, deep, integrative, open, unbowed, invitational. I don't watch many lectures these days but I recommend this from @DeBeaudoir, more so if u like yr eco-ideas to come with systems, physics & poetic metaphor @jongosling @frucool
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For those of you lucky enough to live in South East London Mark is giving a rare public talk followed by Q&A, with wine... on 27th March. Prog may be mentioned. telegraphhillfestival.org.uk/events/the-fut
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“We have to say consciousness is a real thing and there is a mystical interiority to people that’s different from other stuff because if we don’t say people are special, how can we make a society or make technologies that serve people?”
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First ever live full line-up @ronjichardson @jandthef show! Friday 12th May in old London town. Tickets strictly limited please join me & @Optimistontour for the usual future-focused f***ed-up fun! Tickets here: alwaysbecomedy.com/tickets
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First ever live full line-up @ronjichardson @jandthef show! Friday 12th May in old London town. Tickets strictly limited please join me & @Optimistontour for the usual future-focused f***ed-up fun! Tickets here: alwaysbecomedy.com/tickets
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Hey which year's 'official movie' featured that amazing spoken word poem about the festival please? 🙏
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First ever live full line-up show! Friday 12th May in old London town. Tickets strictly limited please join me & for the usual future-focused f***ed-up fun! Tickets here: alwaysbecomedy.com/tickets
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Doing f*** all is scientifically proven to do, well, f*** all…
Climate science translated by comedians. Join us for ‘The Big One’ on April 21st
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Final episode of Series 4! And our first ever full line-up LIVE SHOW! Tune in to hear the usual madcap commentary and hold the date - Friday 12th May in London - and follow us for further announcements…
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And huge grateful H/T to for kicking me in the ass to finally do this & massive thanks to for pulling it together 🙏
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So…what is it you actually do for a living? The perennial question in a so called ‘career’ that is led as much by heart as head, that favours restless curiosity and question-seeking, and looks for succour beyond the formality of normality…edgillespie.earth
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Well we talked on about cold public swimming pools revealed his distaste for a 'chilly dip'! Well, here's a neat response - using data centres to heat public pools. Get your trunks on we're going swimming! 🤣
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Remember Independent SAGE?
What if we set up an Independent BBC Board - but make it a Citizens Assembly?
A randomly selected, representative sample of the UK popn - like a jury
The BBC is ours, after all
I think this could actually work…
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But the problem is: what we are in is not a problem. It's a predicament. Ergo it doesn't have a 'solution'. Not even lots of little solutions adding up to one big solution.
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‘Traincations, dog-riding & a feast of consequences’ the usual madcap quixotic mix of marvels in S4E11 of - the thinking persons sweary place of seriousness and silliness…
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Nearly 𝟮𝟬,𝟬𝟬𝟬 of us have told the government to lift the ban on this clean, cheap energy. Will you add your voice?
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I’m beginning to put all my poem readings in one place, so if you’ve enjoyed my recitals here they are, please do like, comment and subscribe and they’ll be more to come 😉🤞🙏youtube.com/@edgillespiepo via #poem #poems #poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers #poetrytwitter
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I’ve joined and over 100 leading thinkers on energy and the environment in writing to urging them to lift the #onshorewind ban.
🌎🍃 wearepossible.org/open-letter-on
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Dear @michaelgove @grantshapps, it's time to lift the #onshorewind ban in England - it has the power to address #climatechange, help the UK meet its net zero targets, and give us all greener, cheaper electricity. And it’s not just me that thinks so. 
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'What did you do when you stopped pretending?' a poetic homage to my great friend 's book 'At work in the ruins': chelseagreen.com/product/at-wor
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“Clean”. Excellent white van background positioning for first ‘altogether’ gathering of @RonJichardson @Optimistontour & @frucool in person in THREE YEARS! We have created 4 series of @jandthef in between, but boys together with beers is irreplaceable! #goodtimes
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