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Rock Pools in the Desert II, © Robynne Limoges

Rock Pools in the Desert II, © Robynne Limoges

Posted on 19th July 201824th July 2018 Full size 2100 × 1400

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Published inRock Pools in the Desert II, © Robynne Limoges

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Our Directory of Members

ClimateCultures is a network of over 180 artists, curators & researchers in many countries. Our Directory shows the diversity of interests, practices & works bringing creative responses to our ecological and climate crises. And there’s a sneak preview of our most recent new members below.

NEW in our Creative Showcase

We’ve launched our Creative Showcase of new or recent work from our member artists, curators & researchers: comic books Pole to Pole & The Wizard of O2, non-fiction books Carbon Choices, Living with Trees & Fifty Words for Snow, independent zine Imminent, an online Essential Ecoliteracy course, The Long Return: an essay on belonging, and novels The Wintermen III and SkySeed. Check out the full collection. 

Views from Elsewhere

  • Mapping the Planetary: Five Questions for Dipesh Chakrabarty

    "The planet that is the 'Earth system' is only a construction, an abstract entity: you can’t visualize it."

  • Flumilightenment – The Great Mental and Emotional Convergence

    "Sometimes, our imaginations are able to envision, though the crisis of imagination right now is profound."

  • Observing nature in your backyard is not dull but radically significant

    "To see humanity as but one member of a community of animal and plant ‘nations’ is intrinsic to many indigenous world views, including those of Europe."

  • How a secret Cold War project led to signs of ancient life - and a new warning about the future

    "The Greenland Ice Sheet can disappear. It is remarkably climate-sensitive.”

New in Resources

On our Links page:

  • Climate Psychology Alliance
  • The Work That Reconnects Network

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Our Latest Posts

  • A Year of Wonders Under a Circling Sky 16th April 2021
  • A Personal History of the Anthropocene – Three Objects #13 5th April 2021
  • Disciplinary Agnosticism and Engaging with Ecologies of Place 24th March 2021
  • Climate Conversations to Save the World 10th March 2021
  • Dead Kid’s Fingers & Living Soils 22nd February 2021

Enjoy a random post…

(Check our blog page for a larger random selection)
  • Earthrise31st December 2018

New Members

  • Kevin Albin – Expedition guide who has worked in conservation, experienced biodiversity loss and climate change through travel and reaches people through writing, with his eco-fiction novel, Stonechild.
  • Asha Alexander – Learner and educator, heading a primary school that has embedded climate literacy and leading on climate change as Executive Leader for a global education provider. 
  • Gloria Barnett – Passionate marine conservation champion, scuba diver, filmmaker, educator and children’s author, whose mission is to help people of all ages understand the world of oceans.
  • Alan Hesse – Author-illustrator, educator and conservation biologist inspired by nature’s majesty and fragility and the need to protect it and who believes that education should be fun.
  • Jemma Jacobs  – Arts researcher focusing on climate communication within the Anthropocene and its relationship with art, and drawing attention to those suffering disproportionately from climate change impacts.
  • Rosalind Lowry – Artist with a passion for art education and raising environmental awareness, working with a range of media to create site-specific land art, installations and sculpture.
  • Tim Maslen – Part of collaborative art duo Maslen & Mehra, who avoid singular engagement with sustainable narratives and tackle the complexity of economic, social and environmental issues together. 
  • Jennifer Mehra – Part of collaborative art duo Maslen & Mehra, who avoid singular engagement with sustainable narratives and tackle the complexity of economic, social and environmental issues together. 
  • Lionel Playford – Landscape artist engaged with the here-and-now of the weather-world and with poetic ideas about our evolving relationship with nature, often working outdoors with others. 
  • Laura Sedgwick – Experienced producer combining climate concerns with theatre, looking to take sustainability lessons and practices from the subsidised theatre sector to the industry’s more commercial elements.  

Our Authors: 2020 & 2021

These are our ClimateCultures blog authors for 2020 & 2021 so far (most recent authors in bold). For authors in previous years, see 2019, 2018 & 2017. And see our 2020 Quarantine Connection & 2021 Creative Showcase contributors too!

  • Adam Ledger
  • Andrew Howe
  • Anthony Bennett
  • Caroline New
  • Clare Crossman 
  • Dave Hubble
  • Deborah Tomkins
  • Iain Biggs
  • Indigo Moon
  • James Aldridge
  • James Murray-White
  • Jo Dacombe
  • Julia Marques
  • Julian Bishop
  • Kelvin Smith
  • Lisa Lucero
  • Margin Zheng
  • Mark Goldthorpe
  • Matt Law
  • Mirjamsvideos
  • Nick Hunt
  • Peter Reason
  • Philip Webb Gregg
  • Rob La Frenais
  • Selva Ozelli
  • Veronica Worrall
  • Yky

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Members: The ClimateCultures blog is a rich, diverse collection of original posts exclusively from our Members. If you’re an artist, curator or researcher exploring environmental or climate topics, join us. It’s free! Share your ideas and work on the blog. Feature your News in Brief in our monthly newsletter, Re:Culture.

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