2026 Members’ Posts

Here are our posts for 2026 so far, from ClimateCultures members Ife Abhulimen, Evgenia Emets, Michael Gresalfi, David Guenette, Jennifer Leach, Martin Mahony, Andrew Howe, Helen Moore, James Roberts, Nicky Saunter, Veronica Sekules, Sarah Strachan & Eva Strautmann.

You can find more than 220 previous posts published by our growing network of members since our launch in 2017 here. And you can also explore all our posts by category – or by author via our Members’ Directory: enter ‘Author’ in the search bar. Or you can explore through our Random Dip

August 2026

One Poem a Week: Plague Poems Six Years On

by Nicky Saunter
31 August 2026
Creative Works
1,850 words: estimated reading time = 7.5 minutes

 

Artist, writer and practical activist Nicky Saunter remembers weekly act of creative solidarity during the Covid-19 lockdowns: plague poems for plague times, reminding us that writing may be a solitary pleasure but sharing is an act of magic.

The Steep Climes Quartet: My Take on Climate Fiction

by David Guenette
11 August 2026
Longer
2,600 words: estimated reading time = 10 minutes

 

Writer David Guenette shares creative insights into his Steep Climes Quartet, a longitudinal study into climate futures unfolding across an American county. This post accompanies David’s essay for our Longer feature, where he asks “What is Climate Fiction?”

July 2026

Beyond Ecosystem Collapse: New Stories to Live By

by Helen Moore
27 July 2026

Learning in the Anthropocene
1,550 words: estimated reading time = approximately 6 minutes

 

Ecopoet Helen Moore discusses the importance of econarratives and ethical leadership for how we interact with each other and the more-than-human, and how a new free online programme can help us find the new stories to live by.

The Age of Irony

by Martin Mahony
10 July 2026
Learning in the Anthropocene
1,340 words: estimated reading time = approximately 5.5 minutes

 

Geographer Martin Mahony introduces our fifth annual selection of Museum of the Anthropocene student essays: objects that shift shape through lenses that question Anthropocene ironies, contradictions and oversimplifications, and maybe help point to a new ethos of care.

June 2026

Standing in Relationship with Land

by Jennifer Leach
26 June 2026
Art & Eco Activism
2,270 words: estimated reading time = 9 minutes

 

Artist Jennifer Leach offers a ‘case study with no answers’; how (and whether) to engage with issues of right land relationship with resistance but not aggression: pausing, listening, acting with integrity, and being at peace with our choices.

May 2026

Our Anthropocene Museum — A Curator Conversation On Our First Four Years

by Martin Mahony Veronica Sekules
28 May 2026
Learning in the Anthropocene
3,380 words: estimated reading time = 13 minutes

 

As our online Anthropocene museum approaches its fifth year of student entries, UEA’s Martin Mahony and GroundWork Gallery’s Veronica Sekules discuss the collection through a professional curator’s perspective and how it enhances our understanding of our planetary age.

Dark in Nature – Out of Sight, Out of Mind?

by Ife Abhulimen
14 May 2026
Challenges of Creative Engagement
960 words: estimated reading time = approximately 4 minutes

 

Eco-artist and designer Ife Abhulimen‘s sculpture, Dark in Nature, explores persistence by holding an object in place long enough to be noticed. Emerging from the space between appearance and disappearance, it questions our notions of ‘waste’ and ‘away’.

April 2026

Conversational Drift and Artistic Inquiry: Thinking With The Harrisons

by Sarah Strachan
28 April 2026
Review
1,820 words: estimated reading time = approximately 7.5 minutes

 

Transdisciplinary artist Sarah Strachan offers a practice-based researcher’s perspective on Thinking with the Harrisons. The book explores how this renowned eco-artist duo’s responsive, ‘conversational drift’ approach suggests how artistic inquiry can remain open to ecological complexity and uncertainty.

Hey! Earthlings! A Field Guide to Connecting

by Andrew Howe
9 April 2026
Cultural Change
2,230 words: estimated reading time = 9 minutes

 

Artist Andrew Howe shares a collaborative project with fellow artists and migrants to bring together creativity, community and heritage, building trust, reframing narratives in an era of climate crisis and showing we are all earthlings, connected with nature.

March 2026

Rise and Fall – A Short Film-Poem About Connection

by James Roberts
23 March 2026
In the Elements
1,300 words: estimated reading time = 5 minutes + 5 minutes video

Artist and writer James Roberts shares Rise and Fall, his short, award-winning film-poem, which gives us all space, an invitation to find calm, to experience our local rivers, to find a practice of connection and show some reverence.

Protest Posters for the Earth!

by Michael Gresalfi
3 March 2026
Art & Eco Activism
2,100 words: estimated reading time = 8 minutes

 

Artist Michael Gresalfi explores the history of protest posters and their use for International Mother Earth Day (22nd April) through his own protest painting, “Replenish The Earth”. Michael invites fellow ClimateCultures members to share their Earth Month creations.

February 2026

Eternal Forest Sanctuary: Vision to Living Commitment

by Evgenia Emets
9 February 2026
Art & Eco Activism
2,100 words: estimated reading time = 8 minutes

 

Artist Evgenia Emets shares the development of her Eternal Forest sanctuary vision into its latest phase as the Seed of Eternal Forest, with opportunities for artists, scientists and thinkers globally to become a movement and mutually supportive network.

January 2026

The Wood Wide Web – Fruitful Collaboration

by Michael Gresalfi and Eva Strautmann
26 January 2026
Endangered Worlds
1,580 words: estimated reading time = 6.5 minutes

 

Artists Michael Gresalfi and Eva Strautmann‘s collaboration responds to our emerging understanding of the Wood Wide Web that connects trees, fungi and soil: networked communities threatened by our ‘competitive’ view of life and by our industrial forestry practices.


One Poem a Week: Plague Poems Six Years On
The Steep Climes Quartet: My Take on Climate Fiction
Beyond Ecosystem Collapse: New Stories to Live By
The Age of Irony
Standing in Relationship with Land
Our Anthropocene Museum -- A Curator Conversation On Our First Four Years
Dark in Nature - Out of Sight, Out of Mind?
Conversational Drift and Artistic Inquiry: Thinking With The Harrisons
Hey! Earthlings! A Field Guide to Connecting
Rise and Fall - A Short Film-Poem About Connection
Protest Posters for the Earth!
Eternal Forest Sanctuary: Vision to Living Commitment
The Wood Wide Web - Fruitful Collaboration