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Tag: Climate Change

Climate change grief: some resources

First published on 1st April, 2019 – A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change … More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Green New Deal, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Samuel Miller-McDonald

What you read in 2019

Here are my most popular blog posts of 2019. As you will have seen, I am taking a brief sabbatical … More

C. P. Cavafy, Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Facebook, Facebook Addiction, General Election 2015, Gillian Allnut, Leaving Facebook, Leaving Social Media, Mary Oliver, Mourid Barghouti, philip larkin

Who are you influencing?

In Mind in Society, his seminal book on learning and thinking, the Russian philosopher and psychologist Lev Vygotsky said this: … More

Antarctica, Captain Scott, Climate Change, Climate Emergency, David Attenborough, Education, Influence, Life Lessons, Pen Haddow, Polar Exploration, Vygotsky

Climate Sorrow: A found poem, by Susie Orbach

Climate Sorrow To comeinto knowingis to comeinto sorrow. A sorrowthat arrivesas a thud,deadening and fearful.Sorrowis hardto bear. With sorrowcomes griefand … More

Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Climate Change Poems, Climate Emergency, Extinction Rebellion, Rogerio Timoteo, Susie Orbach, This Is Not A Drill

Weather vs climate (LentBlog38)

The main difference between weather and climate is the timescale that they each refer to. Weather describes the conditions of the … More

Austerity, Brexit, Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Cyclone Idai, ERG, Facebook, Jeremy Corbyn, politics, Theresa May

On Diane Abbott and Assange -Meditation on a line by Anne Lamott (LentBlog37)

  There’s an old Mel Brooks routine where the psychiatrist tells his patient, “Listen to your broccoli, and your broccoli … More

Anne Lamott, anti-Semitism, Assange, Bird by Bird, Brexit, Chelsea Football Club, Climate Change, Climate Change Grief, Diane Abbott, Julian Assange, Labour, politics, Racism

The recess (LentBlog35)

As we get to the business end of Lent, in the week the church still names Holy, I have been … More

Brexit, Climate Change, Easter, Holy Week, Lent, Life Lessons, mindfulness, politics, Prayer, Presence, Silence, Solitude

My Brexit week off (LentBlog25)

  I’ll admit it straight away: I didn’t last the whole week. Sometime on Friday evening I switched the radio … More

Being a Poet, Brexit, Climate Change, Life Lessons, Mark Hollis, mindfulness, New Grass, politics, Presence, Talk Talk, The Durutti Column

Climate change grief: some resources (LentBlog23)

A week and a half ago I wrote here about my ‘climate change conversion’, not from unbelief to belief, but … More

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Climate Change, Climate Change Anxiety, Climate Change Grief, Green New Deal, Mary Annaïse Heglar, Samuel Miller-McDonald

Meditation on a line by Rebecca Goss (LentBlog15)

Towards the end of her Greenbelt Festival poetry reading Q and A with Sasha Dugdale in 2017, Rebecca Goss said … More

Being a Poet, Being Creative, Climate Change, Creativity, Facebook, Life Lessons, Poems, Poetry, Poets, Rebecca Goss, Sasha Dugdale, Social Media

My climate change conversion (LentBlog13)

There I was, a normal Saturday, coffee and The Guardian, propped up in bed with the old iPad, flicking through … More

Activism, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Climate Change, Climate Strikes, Extinction Rebellion, Gandhi, Green New Deal, Greta Thurnberg, Martin Luther King, Pope Francis

Lifesaving Poems: Jo Shapcott’s ‘Era’

As I say in my full length review of Jo Shapcott’s Of Mutability, really good books about cancer are rare. Really … More

Cancer, Chemotherapy, Climate Change, Costa Prize, Era, Health, Iraq, Jo Shapcott, Lifesaving Poems, Of Mutability, Poems, Poetry, Poets, The North, Thom Gunn

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