We published 18 posts in 2024, from ClimateCultures members: Peter Adkins, James Aldridge, Paul Feather, Mark Goldthorpe, Kim V. Goldsmith, Michael Gresalfi, Alan J Hesse, Martin Mahony, Helen Moore, James Murray-White, Jules Pretty, Nicky Saunter, Joan Sullivan & David Thorpe.
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December 2024
Nettle-eater: On the Call of the Wild
by Mark Goldthorpe
23 December 2024
Review
1,070 words: estimated reading time = 4 minutes
ClimateCultures editor Mark Goldthorpe finds in Tom Hirons’s Nettle-eater concise, expansive, poetic prose on peril, discovery, and instability in the wild experience of a soul going mad to become truly sane, breaking and remaking our understanding of existence.
‘If I Were a Tree’: Notes for the Pyrocene
by Joan Sullivan
9 December 2024
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,610 words: estimated reading time = 6.5 minutes
In her new exhibition, photographer Joan Sullivan is haunted by a recurring question, “If I were a tree, what would I feel when the flames arrived?”, and confronts the Pyrocene as the world heats to record-breaking levels.
November 2024
On Neuro/Queering Nature
by James Aldridge
19 November 2024
Challenges of Creative Engagement
2,680 words: estimated reading time = 10.5 minutes
Visual artist James Aldridge shares his art and research on neuro/queering nature, helping us all to explore how valuing different perspectives and learning from divergent experiences can expand our ways of seeing and being with the natural world.
A Personal Anthropocene History #14: Bronze Bell, Sea-bed Oak, Wayang Kulit Shadow Puppet
by Jules Pretty
7 November 2024
A History of the Anthropocene in 50 Objects
2,550 words: estimated reading time = 10 minutes
Researcher and writer Jules Pretty presents objects with personal stories of resonance in the Anthropocene, where the common theme of story itself is a powerful mark of individual and cultural agency for change and hope in uncertain times.
October 2024
Exploring Regional Futures: An Entangled Existence
by Kim V. Goldsmith
21 October 2024
Art & Eco Activism
3,000 words: estimated reading time = 12 minutes
Kim V. Goldsmith presents a collaborative essay with fellow artists whose new exhibition, Regional Futures: An Entangled Existence, explores Regional Australia through intersectional feminism, adding personal reflections on her creative approach to spark conversations about being good ancestors.
Life Worth Living: On Becoming a ‘Sustainable Stoic’
by Michael Gresalfi
1 October 2024
Learning in the Anthropocene
1,480 words: estimated reading time = 6 minutes
Artist Michael Gresalfi introduces the personal value to him of adopting the ancient philosophy of Stoicism and its principles in his quest to “live a life worth living”, and to do so in a more environmentally sensitive manner.
September 2024
Stories We Tell About Food & Regenerative Farming
by Paul Feather
17 September 2024
Review
2,900 words: approx reading time = 11.5 minutes
Animist farmer & writer Paul Feather reviews the book Six Inches of Soil and finds that progressive stories about regenerative farming could better integrate their roots in Indigenous practices of reciprocity and respect and tap the deeper implications of radical perspectives.
Objects, Ownership and the Politics of the Anthropocene
by Martin Mahony
2 September 2024
Learning in the Anthropocene
1,200 words words: estimated reading time = 5 minutes
Geographer Martin Mahony returns with new student contributions to our Museum of the Anthropocene that suggest ‘ownership’ as a theme in narratives of this age – and expands this notion in a startling view from beyond earthbound perspectives.
August 2024
Regenerative Designs for the Planet
by Mark Goldthorpe
6 August 2024
Culture Change
2,330 words: estimated reading time = 9 minutes
ClimateCultures editor — and UK Architects Declare Manager — Mark Goldthorpe looks at new initiatives for regenerative design and the paradigm shift we need, embracing principles of being a good ancestor, coevolving with nature and creating a just space for people.
July 2024
On Being Water Beings — “A Return to Water, Rather Than Dust”
by James Murray-White
15 July 2024
Conversations
2,850 words: estimated reading time = 11.5 minutes
Writer and filmmaker James Murray-White, in conversation with Veronica Strang about her new book, Water Beings, finds connections with his own work at a time when water is under threat and we need to rebalance our elemental relationship.
June 2024
Captain Polo in Brazil – A Sneak Peek
by Alan J Hesse
16 June 2024
Art & Eco Activism
2,380 words: estimated reading time = 9.5 minutes
Author-illustrator and conservation biologist Alan J Hesse exclusively previews his latest ‘The Adventures of Captain Polo’ graphic novel, showing his creative process as this savvy climate action ambassador explores Brazil’s threatened biodiversity and climate issues and solutions there.
May 2024
Un-tending the World — A Geopoetics of the Wild
by James Murray-White
29 May 2024
Review
1,780 words: estimated reading time = 7 minutes
Writer and filmmaker James Murray-White finds in James Roberts’s ‘Two Lights’ a profound, close observation of the living world: a wise blending between writer and subject that encapsulates the essence of geopoetics as the sensitive expression of reality.
Sharing the Fire — Hope Tales Event & Chapbook
by Nicky Saunter
10 May 2024
Art & Eco Activism
1,010 words: estimated reading time = 4 minutes
Practical activist and artist Nicky Saunter revisits the Hope Tales project, with its fourth event and chapbook exploring ‘Fire’ themes in the Celtic winter Samhain festival, shared learning from other cultures and creatures, live music, poems and stories.
April 2024
The Next Dawn of Everything — Stories of Human Cultures
by Jules Pretty
23 April 2024
Review
2,750 words: estimated reading time = 11 minutes
Writer and researcher Jules Pretty explores stories that reveal how human cultures don’t converge on one ‘advanced’ model, as our current views of history assume, finding in The Dawn of Everything rich accounts of diversity, freedom and hope.
March 2024
School Strike For Baby Hope
by David Thorpe
14 March 2024
Preview
1,440 words: estimated reading time = 5.5 minutes
Writer David Thorpe introduces his forthcoming climate fiction collection, School Strike For Baby Hope, and explores how our imagined futures must include the costs and dilemmas of better pathways — even where we avoid the worst of climate change.
February 2024
Ecopoetikon: Global Ecopoetries for a Cultural Tipping Point
by Helen Moore
6 February 2024
Cultural Change
1,410 words: estimate reading time = 5.5 minutes
Ecopoet Helen Moore celebrates global ecopoetries through a new project gathering poets from Global South and North. Ecopoetikon offers a powerful indicator of intersecting crises and inspiration for a tipping point in our relationship with the living world.
January 2024
Modernism in the Anthropocene
by Peter Adkins
22 January 2024
Cultural Change
2,000 words: estimate reading time = 8 minutes
Researcher Peter Adkins explores how radical early 20th-century literary shifts reimagined the human within broader planetary processes, a ‘Modernist Anthropocene’ expanding understandings of our geological agency long before global environmental predicaments became the widespread crises of our times.
Dystopian Farming: An Inquiry
by Paul Feather
8 January 2024
Cultural Change
1,110 words: estimate reading time = 4 minutes
For animist farmer and author Paul Feather, 2024 brings a creative inquiry into ‘dystopian farming’ as resistance as well as sustenance, and a search for joy and meaning that makes our dire times tolerable: the potential for liberation.