Get ready for the launch. The very first issue of Bom Hadau zine (Seed Bomb) is going to print. It spreading inspiration and positive stories across #Newport
Join us to celebrate and get your hands on a brand new copy. 📖
13th March, 5.30pm at The Place, Newport.
#communityjournalism
Posts by Mud & Thunder
#Newport is our home and we’re excited to be starting a new project creating a magazine about the good things happening here for people and planet.
1st launch meeting 17th Sept at Maindee Library.
#circulareconomy #southwales
Interesting to think how AI could boost the power of communities and groups open.substack.com/pub/entangle...
Good and vital to hear the interviews and voices of those with lived experience in a hugely over complicated food system podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Good to see this approach to co-creating adaptation targets with communities using story. Building shared language and understanding is such an important part creating change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKY5...
In Monmouthshire there is a real drive to support regenerative agriculture. #regenag We got to tell the story of 3 farms’ regen journeys and understand what regenerative agriculture can look like and how quickly changes in practice can be made. #monmouthshire www.youtube.com/watch?v=z92p...
#Newport #casnewydd has a whole network of individuals and organisations creating the conditions for a future with less waste - more sharing, more repairing, and more caring about the lifecycle of everyday items. #circulareconomy www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaYQ...
Oral history stories about the experiences of first and second generation Chinese migrants in Wales. chineseinwales.org.uk/our-stories-... #oralhistory #wales
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😀🌿 Spreading weed seeds far and wide! - 1974: The Wonderful WEED WOMAN www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dzP...
‘I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.’
– Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
What Gordon Parks Saw www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcVO...
The powerful short documentary Blue Room observes individuals incarcerated in the Pacific Northwest as they participate in an experimental programme that allows them to take in tranquil sounds and images of nature on TV screens
A good listen, linking the food we eat to the soil, to the flavours, to health, to the planet. The Food Programme - The Periodic Table of Food - BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
"We’ve got to do something different. We’ve got to do something very different. The tendency is to want to patch up here, do a little bit there. But we’re well beyond that."
“This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen.” Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report | Drought | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
How to prepare a city for more rainfall: 300 flood-mitigation projects over two decades
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
If you've never heard of marine heat waves, now is the time to pay attention.
Driven by climate change, these increasingly frequent and extreme ocean temperature events, like “the Blob” in the North Pacific, are devastating marine life, disrupting fisheries, and impacting weather patterns. 🌊
In praise of saltmarshes - teaming with life, storers of carbon and just awesome to look at. It’s #worldsaltmarshday here’s an aerial view of#Newportwetlands at Goldcliff. What amazing habitats to have right on our door step in Newport.
Beautiful to see Square Farm near #Monmouth opening its fields to share their journey and knowledge. They’ve transitioned from a farm that used pesticides and fertilisers to one that has been named as one of the top 5 Soil Farmers of the Year 2025. #regenerativeagriculture #regen
#Gwentlevels intertidal zone - 20,300 hectares of mudflats, sandflats and saltmarsh - the fourth largest area in a UK estuary. It’s a home to worms and molluscs and an important habitat for birds (dunlin, curlew, oyster catcher) - it’s more than mud and water, it’s alive. #newport #mudflats
For the last 6 yrs we’ve been creating media to amplify and share stories that are making this planet a better place to live.
#environmentaljustice #socialjustice #digitalstories #narrativechange #southwales
"Stories move in from the shadows to the limelight. And though the stage presents the drama of our powerlessness, the shadows offer the secret of our power." — Rebecca Solnit
"It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories." - Donna J. Haraway