The New School of the Anthropocene is an experimental micro-university, which offers an affordable, radical, alternative to mainstream higher ed.
I teach there each year & we have students from Gaza, Ukraine & around the world.
2026 enrolment is now open.
www.nsota.org
@nsota.bsky.social

The Mar 2026 issue of the open-access Environmental Humanities journal is now available online for free download.
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Land Use Framework How we can use our land more effectively to increase the resilience of our homes, communities, infrastructure, and food systems, while speeding up development and restoring nature.

The first-ever Land Use Framework for England has been published.

I think it is the most far-sighted plan for England's land since the Second World War.

Here's my thoughts on what it does (& doesn't) do: 1/

www.gov.uk/government/p...

2/ Releasing free data & maps of who owns the vast majority of land will enable greater public scrutiny of what goes on behind the barbed-wire fences that crisscross the countryside.

The new Land Use Framework is an ambitious step towards making England a greener, fairer and more pleasant land.

Thanks!

Humanist Climate Action interview: Dr Helen Czerski on oceans, humanism, and the planet’s life support system Dr Helen Czerski is our patron, Professor of the Environment and Society at University College London, and a scientist who specialises in the physics of the oceans. At our Convention in Sheffield last...

"So much climate damage comes from assuming that Earth is simple, that it is easy to control and that it will bend to our will. Standing up against those simplifying assumptions is fundamentally a humanist thing to do."

From a recent interview I did... here's the rest:

humanists.uk/2026/03/06/h...

Colour photograph of Claire Rousay leaning into a vehicle from an outside window.

Bristol New Music has shared the lineup for its 2026 event, including live performances from Claire Rousay, KMRU, Ex-Easter Island Head, Emptyset, Hatis Noit and Lucy Railton

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Photograph of an American bison standing beside a fence at the London Zoo in 1906.

The research guide on Environmental History that I wrote for The National Archives, UK is now live! Includes research advice and resources on colonial environments, pollution, agriculture, and animal histories.

Available here: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-yo...

#envhist #envhum

Good to see the Observer featuring new poetry. Today it's my 'Mineral'.

Great Baker's Dozen. Thanks as always! (FYI a few minor transcription proofreading errors.)

Thanks Katie. V.interested.

A graphic of our bluesky circle!

Thanks to our circle on Bluesky!

Here's to another year of sharing environmental knowledge and building community.

#envhist #cdnhist #histgeog #envhum

Sign the petition to end peat sales! No more delays: Let's get peat out of gardens once and for all. The time for uncertainty has ended.

It's ridiculous that the Government *still* haven't banned the sale of peat.

Peat bogs are still getting dug up and used for compost and in horticulture. Ministers say they'll ban it 'when time allows'.

Get on with it already! Sign the petition:

actnow.peatfreepartnership.org.uk/end-peat-sal...

Less than 48h left to buy an Interrail pass with 25% discount (I already have!). Buy now, activate any date in next 11 months.
About Interrail and how to buy: www.seat61.com/how-to-use-a...

Good news. FYI trailer not playable on Spotify.

Reposting as it's #NationalTreeWeek 🌳

New Special Issue of @asleuki.bsky.social "Green Letters"

'Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach'

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Green Letters Trees in Ancient Greek and Roman Poetry: An Ecocritical Approach to Classics. Volume 29, Issue 2 of Green Letters

An especially brilliant issue of the always brilliant 'Green Letters ' @asleuki.bsky.social

arrived in the post this week 👇

#OvidAlert

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Thanks!

“Even for an intermediate emissions scenario [which is our current emissions pathway] the probability of AMOC shutdown is way above 50%”

(AMOC shut-down means Europe and parts of South-East Asia become uninhabitable, by the way.)

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Many thanks for posting this excellent introduction to Stukeley. I will visit Avebury, Silbury etc. this afternoon! Matt, Bath, UK.

If Jane mentions baked beans again I'll throttle her.

ASLE-UKI Seminar 'Temperate Rainforests' 🍂
30 October, 2:00pm, ONLINE
Register here:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1825348328...

Mandy Haggith – ‘Finding the Lost Elms’
Thomas Kaye – ‘Revelations from the Redwood Canopy’
Solvejg Nitzke – ‘Temperate Mythologies. Of Ferns and People in Deep Time Forests’

Looking foward to this. Will be travelling to Kew from Bath.

Yes!

Thanks for the link to this excellent article. I really must compile an acoustic ecology/soundscape ecology booklist for Rebel Library, including Sounds Wild and Broken obvs. www.rebellibrary.com

Thanks for another great selection of books. www.rebellibrary.com

green/yellow tinted image of fish eggs on the cover of the journal Environmental Humanities

The July 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is now available to read online!
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

A quick rundown of all the #envhum content:

This is great Giles. I am interested in the sounds of tourism and am about to spend a month recording across Europe. Knossos soundscape is always talking tourists and tour guides, and cicadas if it is hot enough!

Love it.