Here are our posts for 2025, from ClimateCultures members Denise Baden, Iain Biggs, Chantal Bilodeau, Julian Bishop, Andrea Carr, Rajat Chaudhuri, Laura Donkers, Joanna Guthrie, Anna Hartnell, Susan Holliday, Sarah Hymas, Jennifer Leach, Martin Mahony, Julien Masson, Indigo Moon, Fiona Moore, Giovanni Enrico Morassutti, Lola Perrin, Jules Pretty, Rod Raglin, Peter Reason, Nicky Saunter, Mary Waltham and Yky.
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December 2025
CCTA and the Theatre of Necessity: Visceral Responses to Climate Crisis
by Giovanni Enrico Morassutti
23 December 2025
Art & Eco Activism
1,400 words: estimated reading time = 5.5 minutes
For actor and director Giovanni Enrico Morassutti, the recent Climate Change Theatre Action (CCTA) Turin residency demonstrates theatre’s role as an artistic laboratory where we practise the emotional bravery required to face the climate and nature crisis together.
A Strange Country
by Susan Holliday
10 December 2025
In the Elements
2,060 words: estimated reading time = 8 minutes
Psychotherapist Susan Holliday discovers an intricate world of imaginal possibility (a strange country) in an overlooked detail of a familiar landscape. Turning away from global events for a moment reminds us that change often starts with something small.
November 2025
Cloud Mountain, Thunder Dragon: Stories of Gross National Happiness
by Jules Pretty
27 November 2025
Cultural Change
2,050 words: estimated reading time = 8 minutes
Researcher and writer Jules Pretty‘s climb to Bhutan’s Taktstang mountain temple reveals a nation’s story of hope and regeneration through its common focus on Gross National Happiness. “Difficult to reach, but not impossible. Like solving a world crisis…”
‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ of Climate Crisis & Poetic Response
by Julian Bishop
13 November 2025
Creative Works
1,480 words: estimated reading time = 6 minutes
Poet Julian Bishop shares three new poems written in response to Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, where dissension between its famous fairy characters plays out in ‘distemperature’ and ruptures in the patterns of nature and affairs of humans.
October 2025
Heritage, Art and Community Collaboration
by Julien Masson
31 October 2025
Challenges of Creative Engagement
900 words: estimated reading time = 3.5 minutes
Artist Julien Masson shares a recent community collaboration with artists, residents and businesses, which uses recycled garden furniture, instruments and miscellaneous timber found locally to create public art that reflects a mix of cultures and transform public spaces.
Finding the Tipping Points with Thrutopian Fiction
by Denise Baden
6 October 2025
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,645 words: estimated reading time = 6.5 minutes
Sustainability researcher and writer Denise Baden discusses the challenges of thrutopian fiction — writing stories to entertain, raise awareness of effective climate action and inspire sustainable behaviours — and her latest thrutopian novel, The Philosopher and the Assassin.
September 2025
Hurricane Katrina and the Human — No ‘Natural Disaster’?
by Anna Hartnell
22 September 2025
Endangered Worlds
2,530 words: estimated reading time = 10 minutes
Researcher Anna Hartnell marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, highlighting the human causes of New Orleans’ crisis (“There is no such thing as a natural disaster”) while questioning ‘Anthropocene’ labellings of human nature as hard-wired for destruction.
Ancient Woodland — A Celebration of Place
by Mary Waltham
In the Elements
2,150 words: estimated reading time = 8.5 minutes
Mary Waltham introduces her and fellow artist Jackie Amies’ joint exhibition on their local ancient woodland. Their art invites our curiosity about these rare, ecologically rich areas, which have been largely untouched by human activity since before 1600.
August 2025
Between ‘The Valley’ and Dublin: ‘Narrative’ Deep Mappings?
by Iain Biggs
15 August 2025
Longer
1,330 words: estimated reading time = 5.5 minutes
Artist and researcher Iain Biggs introduces two fictional-poetic works that offer ‘narrative deep mappings’ as explorations of places that are never static, always in process. This post accompanies Iain’s new essay for our Longer feature, ‘Wild’ Deep Mappings.
When Mr Jones … On the Artist, Responsibility & Linear Thinking
by Yky
11 August 2025
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,110 words: estimated reading time = approximately 4.5 minutes
Citizen artist Yky challenges fellow artists to consider their roles and responsibilities, alongside those of scientific experts, in how their art engages audiences and other citizens to overcome linear thinking in questions of urban resilience and social complexity.
July 2025
Thrutopian Fictions: Ways to a Better Future?
by Rod Raglin
28 July 2025
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,180 words: Estimated reading time = 4.5 minutes
Writer Rod Raglin asks if Thrutopian fiction’s solutions-focused approaches to our climate predicaments address the real challenges. How to overcome our reluctance to make the sacrifices needed to get through the hardest times and towards a better future?
Worlds in Progress: a Retreat to Feed the Seeds of Imagination
by Sarah Hymas
14 July 2025
Spaces
1,225 words: estimate reading time = 5 minutes
Poet and artist-book maker Sarah Hymas looks ahead to the Imaginarium ‘Worlds in Progress’ retreat she is running for a second year, an open, fluid, multi-layered spacetime for writers to sow and care for the seeds of imagination.
June 2025
Bullwoman – Dream Portal
by Jennifer Leach and Andrea Carr
30 June 2025
Preview
1,600 words: estimated reading time = approximately 6.5 minutes
Artist-writer Jennifer Leach and ecoscenographer-artist Andrea Carr‘s Earth-arts organisation Outrider Anthems invites us into Bullwoman – a dreaming. Their collaborative Portal Theatre project brings everyday reality into rich contact with deeper worlds, suggesting new myths for our times.
May 2025
Anthropocene Naturecultures: Where are the Boundaries?
by Martin Mahony
30 May 2025
Learning in the Anthropocene
1,770 words: estimated reading time = 7 minutes
Geographer Martin Mahony introduces our new selection of student contributions to our Museum of the Anthropocene, asking important questions about the meaning of ‘natural’ and ‘cultural’, the politics of drawing boundaries and the relations that cut across them.
We are Creatures – a Story of Mayhem with Masks
by Nicky Saunter
15 May 2025
Art & Eco Activism
1,560 words: estimated reading time = 6 minutes
Artist and writer Nicky Saunter shares her recent photographic exhibition and the artist-activist collaboration that brought the wild into our city streets, revealing humans as creatures in a world that allows less space than ever for the natural.
April 2025
“Radical Noticing” – Adding to the Road Map
by Joanna Guthrie
28 April 2025
Longer
870 words: estimated reading time = 3.5 minutes
Poet and writer Joanna Guthrie introduces her essay for our Longer feature, on her experiences finding deeper connection with and through trees. Here, she reflects on writing and ‘radical noticing’, asking: how else to deal with the times?
Spellcasters – a Dance with the Real and the Uncanny
by Rajat Chaudhuri
11 April 2025
Challenges of Creative Engagement
1,470 words: estimated reading time = 6 minutes
Author Rajat Chaudhuri discusses the backstories and inspiration for his most recent book, Spellcasters, and how they connect to the plot of this novel, which is part psychological thriller, part climate adventure with a twist of the occult.
March 2025
River / Run – Waterbodies from Dorset to Findhorn Bay
by Fiona Moore
26 March 2025
Review
1,930 words: estimated reading time = 7.5 minutes
Poet and campaigner Fiona Moore finds joy and celebration alongside loss in fellow ecopoet Helen Moore’s river / run, a collection of long-form poems exploring a living ecology, history and language shared with waterbodies and our fellow animals.
Solidarity in Place: The Hokianga Community Drawing Project
by Laura Donkers
13 March 2025
Art and Activism
1,450 words: estimated reading time = 5.5 minutes
Ecological artist and researcher Laura Donkers reflects on a community drawing approach to uncovering shared emotional connections and promoting dialogue about ‘home’ as ‘place’ and ‘process’ — both aspects impacted by human-caused climate change, ecological breakdown, and biodiversity loss.
February 2025
Nature’s Healing for Grief
by Indigo Moon
26 February
In the Elements
910 words: estimate reading time = 3.5 minutes
Writer, poet and artist Indigo Moon shares her creative reflection on grief at loss of loved ones and the natural world and the power of life to help us recover and stay connected with people, place and presence.
Solarpunk Symphony: Where Are the Music Programmers Who Heed the Science?
by Lola Perrin
11 February 2025
Longer
2,900 words: estimated reading time = 11.5 minutes
Composer Lola Perrin introduces her special essay for our Longer feature on a recent Solarpunk symphony residency in Norway, describing how her symphony responds to frustration with cultural venues’ lack of response to the climate risks we face.
January 2025
Living Waters, Sentient World & Co-operative Inquiry
by Peter Reason
23 January 2025
In the Elements
1,890 words: estimated reading time = 7.5 minutes
Writer Peter Reason explores the possibilities of learning to unhook ourselves from taken-for-granted perspectives, finding ways to invoke the living presence of a sentient world through co-operative inquiry with humans and waterways as participants in a kinship ecology.
All Good Things Must Begin
by Chantal Bilodeau
6 January 2025
Art & Eco Activism
1,850 words: estimated reading time = 7.5 minutes
Playwright Chantal Bilodeau shares Climate Change Theatre Action’s new anthology of short plays on the climate crisis, whose theme of ‘All good things must begin’ takes an imaginative leap through challenging times towards a just and regenerative world.
