References

Links to related sites, recommended books, quotations and other sources of information

Recommended Books:

• The Joyful Environmentalist by Isabel Losada
• Entangled Life: How fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures by Merlin Sheldrake 
• Wild about Weeds by Jack Wallington. Garden design with rebel plants. 
• The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben. What they feel, how they communicate: Discoveries from a secret world 
• Wilding by Isabella Tree. The return of nature to a British farm 
• The Hidden Universe: Adventures in Biodiversity by Alexandre Antonelli. An epic adventure into the miracles of the natural world 
• The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet by Dave Goulson 
• The Book of Wilding: A Practical Guide to ReWilding, Big and Small by Isabella Tree
• Deep Water: The World in the Ocean by James Bradley 
• How Life Works: A User's Guide to the New Biology by Philip Ball
• Blue Machine by Helen Czerski
• The High Seas by Olive Heffernan 
• Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
• The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence
• Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in with Unexpected Resilience & Creative Power by Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone
• Our Final Warning: Six Degrees of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas

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Related websites:

The Paris Agreement

What is Net Zero?

Copernicus Climate Change Service

Centre for Alternative Technology

Young Wilders

Talgarth College Talks and Videos

Stop Burning Stuff

Riveraction (including a plan to save the River Wye)

Greenpeace

Sewage Map

Scientists for Global Responsibility

A New Global Treaty On Plastic Pollution

The Hay Festival

South Shropshire Climate Action

New Scientist: Fix the Planet newsletter

Climate Fresk – quality climate education

Lightfoot

The Great Collaboration

Zero Carbon Shropshire

Let’s Go Zero

Fork Ranger - solving climate change with food

Make My Money Matter

Climate Conversations Project

Eat Seasonably

Wicked Leeks – Food, Farming, Fairness

Herefordshire Schools and COP29

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Wise words:

“The world is full of good people.  If you can't find one, be one.”

“Solastalgia - the distress produced by environmental change impacting on people while they are directly connected to their home environment.”  Glenn Albrecht, Australian philosopher, Land Ecologies Research Group

“There is a myth about human behaviour that withstands all evidence it is that we always put survival first. This is true for other species. When confronted by an impending threat, such as winter, they invest great resources into avoiding or withstanding it; migrating or hibernating for example.
Humans are a different matter. When faced wide an impending or chronic threat, such as climate or ecological breakdown, we seem to go out of our way to compromise our survival.
We will endure only if we cease to consent.
The 19th century democracy campaigners knew it, the suffragettes knew it, Ghandhi knew it, Martin Luther King knew it.
The environmental protesters who demand systematic change have also grasped this fundamental truth...  uprising against systematic environmental collapse, we see people, mostly young people, refusing to consent. What they understand is history's most important lesson. Our survival depends on disobedience.”

“We can continue acting as if tomorrow will be just like yesterday, growing less and less prepared for each new disaster as it comes, and more and more desperately invested in a life we can't sustain.
Or we can learn to see each day as the death of what came before, freeing ourselves to deal with whatever problems the present offers without attachment or fear.” Roy Scranton, Learning to Die in the Anthropocene 

“I want to learn every single way possible to live our planet. And to do this wholeheartedly, energetically and joyfully.”  Isabel Losada

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