Bioregioning Tayside

‘A silent majority’: MPs underestimate support for green policies, study reveals Exclusive: From solar subsidies to meat taxes, minority rightwing voices appear to drown out the consensus

“Making people aware that their pro-climate view is, in fact, by far the majority could unlock a social tipping point and help push leaders into the climate action so urgently needed” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

SOLSTICE, by our Makar, Jim Mackintosh.

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record Many now concerned about ability to make living in fast-changing climate after one of worst grain harvests recorded

UK farmers lose £800m after heat and drought cause one of worst harvests on record .. Three of the five worst harvests on record have now occurred since 2020

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages The milestone is one of a number of new measures taking effect on St Andrew's Day from the Scottish Languages Act.

Gaelic and Scots now recognised as official languages:

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Bioregioning: A Catalyst for Renewal in an Age of Interconnected Risk - Bioregioning Tayside In a world defined by cascading global crises — climate instability, biodiversity loss, economic inequality, and cultural fragmentation — it can feel as though the systems sustaining life are fraying ...

Bioregioning: A Catalyst for Renewal in an Age of Interconnected Risk - The Bioregions of the Atlantic Isles in conversation with Thomas Homer-Dixon and Shandell Houlden of the @cascadeinstitute.bsky.social

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Britain one of least ‘nature-connected’ nations in world – with Nepal the most Others languishing near bottom of 61-country study include Canada, Germany, Israel, Japan and Spain

“Low levels of nature connectedness ..one of three major underlying causes of biodiversity loss” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The nature extinction crisis is mirrored by one in our own bodies. Both have huge implications for health Modern life is waging a war against ecosystems around us and inside us. Keeping our own microbes healthy is another reason to demand action to preserve the natural world

“ We are all walking ecosystems, picking up and shedding material as we move through life. “

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We're calling on the Scottish National Investment Bank to rethink investment in the Gresham House fund.

Using @andywightman.scot's research, we raise key concerns around public expenditure, transparency & local economies.

Scotsman article 👉 tinyurl.com/4re6ps6r
Full article 👉 tinyurl.com/mt38ax9f

UK’s obesity and overweight epidemic costs £126bn a year, study suggests Exclusive: Experts say higher figure than past estimates should be wake-up call for ministers to tackle obesity

“We’ve created a food system that’s poisoning our population and bankrupting the state.

“This report shows that poor diet now costs the UK a shocking £126bn a year. That’s not a crisis. That’s a collapse.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds Farmers warn of risk to Britain’s food supply as more than three-quarters take hit to income from extreme weather

“..in the past five years, 78% of farmers had been hit by drought and more than half had suffered the consequences of heatwaves.

In stark contrast, just 2% of farmers had not experienced extreme weather in some form.”

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Living Amongst and with Trees: Botanical Agency and the Archaeology of Plant-Human Relationships The last decade has seen a significant change in the way the humanities have approached the study of botanical life. Termed ‘the plant turn’, this questions traditional views of plants as a largely...

New paper on the nature of plant life and its relationship to human life during the Mesolithic! Thanks to @ojth.bsky.social, Amy Gray Jones and @graemewarren.bsky.social for comments and advice. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

We’re delighted to share that we will be supported by the Scotland Food & Drink Partnership’s Regional Food Fund for our project 'From Tree to Glass – promoting craft Cider and Perry production in Tayside and North Fife'
Learn more below 👇
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#ScotFoodTourism

Please share widely, a fantastic #ArtArchaeology pilot on the amazing Isle of Arran

#Scotland #Art #Archaeology #IsleofArran

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Bioregional Summer School • Bioregional Learning Centre BLC is opening its new South Devon Bioregional Summer School in July where participants will experience the full spectrum of how to work bioregionally, with South Devon as our classroom and local and ...

Interested in finding out more about Bioregioning? Bioregional Learning Centre in South Devon is running their first Bioregional Summer School, 18th-25th July. Designed for both newcomers and bioregioning practitioners working in a wide range of related fields. www.bioregion.org.uk/summer-school

Welcoming Jim Mackintosh as Bioregioning Tayside's Makar - Bioregioning Tayside Bioregioning Tayside is proud to welcome poet Jim Mackintosh as their Makar. The contemporary Bioregioning movement has strong connections to this ‘vital truth’ through the American Pulitzer Prize-win...

Delighted to announce Bioregioning Tayside's first Makar - Jim Mackintosh: tinyurl.com/7mksa22n

The Magic of Beavers Adam Ramsay recounts how his parents' adoption of beavers has transformed their upland farm into a rich, biodiverse haven for birds, mammals, fish and amphibians

How my parents brought back Britain’s beavers: www.bylinesupplement.com/p/the-magic-...

The Battle for Nature’s Wealth: Wall Street vs. the Bioregional Revolution It’s a Fight for the Future of Life on Earth This isn’t just a story about finance — it’s a battle between two fundamentally different forces: extraction vs. life itself.

This is not just a policy debate or an economic shift. It’s a fight for the future of life on Earth.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/battle...

Climate crisis on track to destroy capitalism, warns top insurer Action urgently needed to save the conditions under which markets – and civilisation itself – can operate, says senior Allianz figure

"Global carbon emissions are still rising & current policies will result in a rise in global temperature between 2.2C and 3.4C above pre-industrial levels. At 3C of global heating, climate damage cannot be insured against, covered by governments, or adapted to.."
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"A short history of bioregional cartography" (in French). PIC: "Nous sommes Orne!" by Collectif Hydromondes topophile.net/savoir/petit...

Bioregioning in Practice: Learn from the World’s Leading Practitioners The Bioregional Learning Alliance is an international network of practitioners dedicated to growing the field of bioregioning. After two years of collaboration, we have designed a learning program that provides multiple entry points based on your experience and interests.

What is bioregioning all about? How can I bring my bioregion alive? The new Bioregional Learning Alliance & Gaia Education practitioner course starts 22 April. (My session: Where are the Jobs and Livelihoods in Bioregioning?) www.gaiaeducation.org/bioregioning...

The Last Ice Age For storyteller Andri Snær Magnason, climate change is like a black hole: it’s larger than language. Retracing his grandparents’ annual journey to Iceland’s Vatnajökull glacier, he seeks stories that ...

This film is beautifully scripted, shot and very moving… do watch.

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Announcing the Launch of the Planetary Civics Inquiry! We are thrilled to introduce the Planetary Civics Inquiry(PCI) an alliance of researchers, educators, policymakers, designers, and practitioners committed to transforming the structures and processes that shape how we govern our entangled planet

The Ocean enters the boardroom 'Ocean trustee' election is a

The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) appoints the Ocean as a Trustee on their board www.sams.ac.uk/news/sams-ne...

Invasive non-native species drive #biodiversity loss, contributing to 60% of global species extinctions 🌿🐟.


🌍 Meet Professor Helen Roy, a leading expert in tackling this global challenge

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The ‘Transformative Change Assessment’ from the IPBES, makes it clear that we need to rapidly transform pretty much everything about our societies and economies in industrialised countries if we are to “safeguard life on Earth”. A great piece of work for the world: www.sei.org/publications...

An image of terraced green hills. Overlay text reads "Call for Workshop Nominations: Exploring Scenarios & Models Integrating Diverse Knowledge Systems. Deadline: 9 February 2025"

🌍 Call for Nominations! 🧪

IPBES invites experts & practitioners to apply to join a May 2025 in-person workshop in the Philippines on scenarios & models integrating Indigenous, local, & Mother Earth-centric knowledge systems

🗓️Deadline: 9 Feb 2025

🔗Details: www.ipbes.net/scenarios-mo...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

~ Carl Sagan

I’m pleased to have been appointed as a Scottish Land Commissioner and looking forward to contributing to Scotland’s land reform agenda in that role.

“Blended finance, often heralded as a silver bullet, has fallen short: public resources dominate blended deals, often de-risking private initiative in lower-risk, lower-impact projects.”