Bridget McKenzie
@bridgetmck.bsky.social
Engaging public in the #EarthCrisis with #Arts #Heritage #Museums Founded Climate Museum UK, Culture Declares & Flow Associates.
http://bridgetmckenzie.uk/ Mailing list https://bridget-mckenzie.kit.com/cbde1db065
Thank you @raechelkelly.bsky.social and it was also great to learn from your empathetic and observant ways, as with the exemplary @lornaprescott.bsky.social and Jo Orchard-Webb
This was such a joy to be part of, with thanks to @lornaprescott.bsky.social Jo Orchard Webb and everyone at Co Lab Dudley, especially the Dudley People’s School of Climate Justice crew! And especially @bridgetmck.bsky.social ‘s insight and ways of drawing connections 🌍 ❤️ 🌱
Got a bit of writing done. It’s been heartening remembering two days in Dudley this spring with @bridgetmck.bsky.social @raechelkelly.bsky.social and our local collaborators, going about evaluation in a deeply relational and generative way.
medium.com/colab-dudley...
medium.com/colab-dudley...
October 31, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Thank you @raechelkelly.bsky.social and it was also great to learn from your empathetic and observant ways, as with the exemplary @lornaprescott.bsky.social and Jo Orchard-Webb
I’ve been exploring this question:
What is the state of capacities in the UK Cultural sector for an alert, full-spectrum and effective response to the Earth Crisis?
And some related questions:
What is the state of capacities in the UK Cultural sector for an alert, full-spectrum and effective response to the Earth Crisis?
And some related questions:
October 21, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I’ve been exploring this question:
What is the state of capacities in the UK Cultural sector for an alert, full-spectrum and effective response to the Earth Crisis?
And some related questions:
What is the state of capacities in the UK Cultural sector for an alert, full-spectrum and effective response to the Earth Crisis?
And some related questions:
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
Wild About Essex will refresh Colchester’s Natural History Museum. What would make the space feel more accessible and relevant to you?
Tell us here: buff.ly/uS4spfx
#WildAboutEssex #HaveYourSay
Tell us here: buff.ly/uS4spfx
#WildAboutEssex #HaveYourSay
October 20, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Wild About Essex will refresh Colchester’s Natural History Museum. What would make the space feel more accessible and relevant to you?
Tell us here: buff.ly/uS4spfx
#WildAboutEssex #HaveYourSay
Tell us here: buff.ly/uS4spfx
#WildAboutEssex #HaveYourSay
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
Remember nature in Norfolk with these art events
Remember Nature in Norfolk
www.edp24.co.uk
October 17, 2025 at 12:32 PM
I'm helping to organise the #FestivalofPeopleandPlanet in Norwich, reimagining our City’s future in global solidarity. It's part of @globaldonut.bsky.social Days. And as part of it, I'll deliver my creative workshop 'How It All Connects'. See reimaginenorwich.org.uk/festivalofpe...
Festival of People and Planet! – Reimagine Norwich
reimaginenorwich.org.uk
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
I'm helping to organise the #FestivalofPeopleandPlanet in Norwich, reimagining our City’s future in global solidarity. It's part of @globaldonut.bsky.social Days. And as part of it, I'll deliver my creative workshop 'How It All Connects'. See reimaginenorwich.org.uk/festivalofpe...
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
Thank you to @bridgetmck.bsky.social who delivered an inspiring talk, full of resources and frameworks to give ‘people courage to be planetary citizens, or inhabitants of a biosphere in trouble. Not as consumers for culture…’ 💫
#GEMConference2025 #sustainability
#GEMConference2025 #sustainability
September 11, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Thank you to @bridgetmck.bsky.social who delivered an inspiring talk, full of resources and frameworks to give ‘people courage to be planetary citizens, or inhabitants of a biosphere in trouble. Not as consumers for culture…’ 💫
#GEMConference2025 #sustainability
#GEMConference2025 #sustainability
Earth Talk is a community of practice, a series of courses and gatherings, a playbook and more offering a rich set of tools to hold effective conversations and creative activities about the Earth Crisis.
There are now 50+ members of the community and 135+ creative tools shared.
There are now 50+ members of the community and 135+ creative tools shared.
Discover Earth Talk
Join us to explore the Earth Talk community of practice as a taster before the Autumn series of online workshops
www.eventbrite.co.uk
August 21, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Earth Talk is a community of practice, a series of courses and gatherings, a playbook and more offering a rich set of tools to hold effective conversations and creative activities about the Earth Crisis.
There are now 50+ members of the community and 135+ creative tools shared.
There are now 50+ members of the community and 135+ creative tools shared.
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
4/4 of Earth Crisis Acknowledgement
June 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
4/4 of Earth Crisis Acknowledgement
That corn, though, a lot is processed to corn syrup and oil, cornstarch and alcohol. So, that’s a teeny tiny amount of fibrous whole plants.
In honor of World Emoji Day, I bring you the American diet by % of calories
🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞
🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞
🍞🍞🍞🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽
🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽
🌽🌽🌽🌽🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭
🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🥛
🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🐄🐄
🐄🐄🐄🐄🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
🐖🐖🐖🐖🥔🥔🥔🍊🍊🍊
🥦🥦🥜🥜🥚🥚🧈🧈🧃🐟
HT @waiterich.bsky.social, whose land-use graphic I ripped off
🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞
🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞🍞
🍞🍞🍞🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽
🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽🌽
🌽🌽🌽🌽🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭
🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🍭🥛
🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🥛🐄🐄
🐄🐄🐄🐄🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
🐖🐖🐖🐖🥔🥔🥔🍊🍊🍊
🥦🥦🥜🥜🥚🥚🧈🧈🧃🐟
HT @waiterich.bsky.social, whose land-use graphic I ripped off
July 17, 2025 at 11:59 AM
That corn, though, a lot is processed to corn syrup and oil, cornstarch and alcohol. So, that’s a teeny tiny amount of fibrous whole plants.
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
By me: Trump’s spending bonanza for the Pentagon will produce an additional 26 megatons of planet-heating gases – on a par with the annual emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia, new analysis by @cplusc.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Trump’s $1tn for Pentagon to add huge planet-heating emissions, study shows
Exclusive: 17% increase in military spending will add emissions equivalent to those of some entire countries
www.theguardian.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
By me: Trump’s spending bonanza for the Pentagon will produce an additional 26 megatons of planet-heating gases – on a par with the annual emissions generated by 68 gas power plants or the entire country of Croatia, new analysis by @cplusc.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
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 More than 80% of UK farmers are worried that the “devastating” effect of the climate ...
More than 80% of UK farmers worried about climate crisis harming livelihood, study finds
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 More than 80% of UK farmers are worried that the “devastating” effect of the climate ...
www.theguardian.com
July 2, 2025 at 4:37 AM
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 More than 80% of UK farmers are worried that the “devastating” effect of the climate ...
Earth Crisis Acknowledgement:
I acknowledge that Earth’s systems are in a state of overshoot, signalled by global heating, biodiversity loss and pollution, and worsening shortfall in meeting needs equally. 1/4
I acknowledge that Earth’s systems are in a state of overshoot, signalled by global heating, biodiversity loss and pollution, and worsening shortfall in meeting needs equally. 1/4
June 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Earth Crisis Acknowledgement:
I acknowledge that Earth’s systems are in a state of overshoot, signalled by global heating, biodiversity loss and pollution, and worsening shortfall in meeting needs equally. 1/4
I acknowledge that Earth’s systems are in a state of overshoot, signalled by global heating, biodiversity loss and pollution, and worsening shortfall in meeting needs equally. 1/4
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
Jason Hickel posts on Insta new research that lower US income groups want environmental protections more than higher income groups. The assumption otherwise has been constructed by the propagandising lobbies trying to kill protections & delay action. Tx @bridgetmck.bsky.social!
June 3, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Jason Hickel posts on Insta new research that lower US income groups want environmental protections more than higher income groups. The assumption otherwise has been constructed by the propagandising lobbies trying to kill protections & delay action. Tx @bridgetmck.bsky.social!
I've made a short video and a blogpost to go into some reasons why we need #EarthTalk and why this programme could really help you. bridgetmck.medium.com/why-do-we-ne...
Why do we need Earth Talk?
I’ve been running the Earth Talk programme, under the umbrella of Climate Museum UK, since September, and the third course is coming up on…
bridgetmck.medium.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:40 AM
I've made a short video and a blogpost to go into some reasons why we need #EarthTalk and why this programme could really help you. bridgetmck.medium.com/why-do-we-ne...
A new #EarthTalk course is coming up on 17 June. There will be a Discovery session this Friday if you want to find out more before deciding. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-e... Or just sign up to join the community with the form in the post below.
May 13, 2025 at 12:11 PM
A new #EarthTalk course is coming up on 17 June. There will be a Discovery session this Friday if you want to find out more before deciding. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/discover-e... Or just sign up to join the community with the form in the post below.
I was one of the first founders of the Culture Declares Emergency, which over 6 years has grown to c.2000 organisations & individuals committed to addressing the Earth Crisis through Culture. In that time, we've never asked individuals to donate. Until now! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Arts and Culture for a just & flourishing Earth – Big Give
Culture has the power to reach hearts, change minds and drive action. Culture Declares Emergency (CDE UK) - hosted by The Movements Trust - supports the cultural sector in inspiring and mobilising co...
donate.biggive.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
I was one of the first founders of the Culture Declares Emergency, which over 6 years has grown to c.2000 organisations & individuals committed to addressing the Earth Crisis through Culture. In that time, we've never asked individuals to donate. Until now! donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
In early March, a group of Musk-affiliated staffers from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency responsible for protecting workers’ rights and handling union disputes.
April 17, 2025 at 8:20 PM
In early March, a group of Musk-affiliated staffers from the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) arrived at the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the federal agency responsible for protecting workers’ rights and handling union disputes.
Reposted by Bridget McKenzie
@bridgetmck.bsky.social has written an insightful piece for the EDP about issues involving our seas, prompted by the exhibition at Sainsbury Centre @sainsburycentre.bsky.social
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2507199...
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2507199...
Opinion: A world of water - why ocean health matters
A world of water: why ocean health matters
www.edp24.co.uk
April 11, 2025 at 8:37 AM
@bridgetmck.bsky.social has written an insightful piece for the EDP about issues involving our seas, prompted by the exhibition at Sainsbury Centre @sainsburycentre.bsky.social
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2507199...
www.edp24.co.uk/news/2507199...
I’m showing some work in a pop-up for the post-grad art course I’ve been doing at the Art Depot in Norwich. My winter project was a reconnaissance of emotions of witnessing the Earth Crisis. See part of this project, an illustrated poem...
bridgetmck.medium.com/being-with-t...
bridgetmck.medium.com/being-with-t...
Being with Trouble
I’m showing some creative work in a pop-up for the post-grad art course I’ve been doing this year at the Art Depot in Norwich. My winter…
bridgetmck.medium.com
April 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
I’m showing some work in a pop-up for the post-grad art course I’ve been doing at the Art Depot in Norwich. My winter project was a reconnaissance of emotions of witnessing the Earth Crisis. See part of this project, an illustrated poem...
bridgetmck.medium.com/being-with-t...
bridgetmck.medium.com/being-with-t...
How do we overcome limited framings of the word ‘environment’? How do we help people hear ‘our precious biosphere & its sentient inhabitants are in trouble’ rather than ‘the team that tells us off for not recycling’? And to hear that without feeling so overwhelmed that they switch off?
March 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
How do we overcome limited framings of the word ‘environment’? How do we help people hear ‘our precious biosphere & its sentient inhabitants are in trouble’ rather than ‘the team that tells us off for not recycling’? And to hear that without feeling so overwhelmed that they switch off?
If you'd like to receive news, latest articles, resources & upcoming courses, sign up to my mailing list here (trying to transition from the dodgy platforms) bridget-mckenzie.kit.com/cbde1db065
Landing page
bridget-mckenzie.kit.com
March 25, 2025 at 11:43 AM
If you'd like to receive news, latest articles, resources & upcoming courses, sign up to my mailing list here (trying to transition from the dodgy platforms) bridget-mckenzie.kit.com/cbde1db065
Earth Talk is my course, community & playbook offering tools to hold effective conversations & creative activities about the Earth Crisis, which is Ecological Overshoot (e.g. global heating, pollution & ecocide) + Social Shortfall (e.g. inequalities, structural racism, authoritarian governments).
March 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Earth Talk is my course, community & playbook offering tools to hold effective conversations & creative activities about the Earth Crisis, which is Ecological Overshoot (e.g. global heating, pollution & ecocide) + Social Shortfall (e.g. inequalities, structural racism, authoritarian governments).
I've annotated in 'green ink' on the Interim Report of the Curriculum & Assessment Review, calling for more acknowledgement of the Earth Crisis. @beckyfrancis.bsky.social bridgetmck.medium.com/green-ink-on...
Green Ink on the Curriculum Review
Professor Becky Francis has led on the Review for the English National Curriculum & Assessments for the UK Government. The Interim Report…
bridgetmck.medium.com
March 19, 2025 at 8:32 PM
I've annotated in 'green ink' on the Interim Report of the Curriculum & Assessment Review, calling for more acknowledgement of the Earth Crisis. @beckyfrancis.bsky.social bridgetmck.medium.com/green-ink-on...