Dr. Rob Phillips
@robdphillips.bsky.social
Senior Tutor: Design Futures: The Royal College of Art | Designer | Author | Maker | Grower | Dad
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Current Project | https://ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/
Work (Linkedin) | https://tinyurl.com/bdhbehxw
Articles | https://tinyurl.com/3bnuxmn4
Current Project | https://ecologicalcitizens.co.uk/
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See the full programme for today's event, which took place on the eve of #BES2025
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@ect-uk.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
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National Environmental Monitoring Conference 2025
NEMC 2025, is a one-day event on Monday 15 December 2025 bringing together researchers, policymakers, and practitioners to explore how environmental monitoring can drive real-world impact.
www.ceh.ac.uk
December 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
See the full programme for today's event, which took place on the eve of #BES2025
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
@ect-uk.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med...
@ect-uk.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
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When it comes to equitably tackling the pollution, biodiversity, and climate crises, nature always brings more to the table!
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
December 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
When it comes to equitably tackling the pollution, biodiversity, and climate crises, nature always brings more to the table!
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
Here are the experts you can follow to learn more about the many ways nature-based solutions help us build a better world.
Day 5 of my 20 Days of Climate Starter Packs
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💡 What makes an MDes Design Futures student different?
Thinking beyond the present 👀 looking at the big picture 🌍 and using design as a tool to understand complex systems 🔧
Find out more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3L3txcH
Thinking beyond the present 👀 looking at the big picture 🌍 and using design as a tool to understand complex systems 🔧
Find out more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3L3txcH
December 15, 2025 at 7:15 PM
💡 What makes an MDes Design Futures student different?
Thinking beyond the present 👀 looking at the big picture 🌍 and using design as a tool to understand complex systems 🔧
Find out more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3L3txcH
Thinking beyond the present 👀 looking at the big picture 🌍 and using design as a tool to understand complex systems 🔧
Find out more ➡️ https://bit.ly/3L3txcH
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Lord of the Rings film set? No, it's Kingley Vale.
The reserve contains one of the finest yew forests in western Europe, including a grove of ancient trees which are among the oldest living things in Britain.
Pure magic.
📸: Chris Doyle
The reserve contains one of the finest yew forests in western Europe, including a grove of ancient trees which are among the oldest living things in Britain.
Pure magic.
📸: Chris Doyle
December 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Lord of the Rings film set? No, it's Kingley Vale.
The reserve contains one of the finest yew forests in western Europe, including a grove of ancient trees which are among the oldest living things in Britain.
Pure magic.
📸: Chris Doyle
The reserve contains one of the finest yew forests in western Europe, including a grove of ancient trees which are among the oldest living things in Britain.
Pure magic.
📸: Chris Doyle
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Dale Baldwin spotted this female Kingfisher in a reed bed. Stunning photo.
December 12, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Dale Baldwin spotted this female Kingfisher in a reed bed. Stunning photo.
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What's the Point to Global Tipping Points?
🎥 youtu.be/QFp_R9ZXPs0
➡️ Discover: global-tipping-points.org/resources-gtp/
💬Join: linktr.ee/cfca
🎥 youtu.be/QFp_R9ZXPs0
➡️ Discover: global-tipping-points.org/resources-gtp/
💬Join: linktr.ee/cfca
What are Global Tipping Points?
Rapidly transitioning to a low-carbon economy that will deliver the Paris Agreement requires identifying and operationalising positive tipping points. Discover How. https://global-tipping-points.org/
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December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
What's the Point to Global Tipping Points?
🎥 youtu.be/QFp_R9ZXPs0
➡️ Discover: global-tipping-points.org/resources-gtp/
💬Join: linktr.ee/cfca
🎥 youtu.be/QFp_R9ZXPs0
➡️ Discover: global-tipping-points.org/resources-gtp/
💬Join: linktr.ee/cfca
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New Blue Spaces Report 🌊
We're pleased to share a new report by Jenny Wheeldon, Esmée’s Blue Spaces Manager, with the collective learning of everyone involved.
➡️ Read the full report and an interactive map of the projects here: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
We're pleased to share a new report by Jenny Wheeldon, Esmée’s Blue Spaces Manager, with the collective learning of everyone involved.
➡️ Read the full report and an interactive map of the projects here: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
December 11, 2025 at 9:59 AM
New Blue Spaces Report 🌊
We're pleased to share a new report by Jenny Wheeldon, Esmée’s Blue Spaces Manager, with the collective learning of everyone involved.
➡️ Read the full report and an interactive map of the projects here: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
We're pleased to share a new report by Jenny Wheeldon, Esmée’s Blue Spaces Manager, with the collective learning of everyone involved.
➡️ Read the full report and an interactive map of the projects here: esmeefairbairn.org.uk/latest-news/...
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Everyone deserves to enjoy nature.
Through my Green Roots Fund we’re backing fantastic projects, including the first white storks breeding colony in London for 600 years.
This is only the beginning - with more than £12m invested over the next 3 years.
Through my Green Roots Fund we’re backing fantastic projects, including the first white storks breeding colony in London for 600 years.
This is only the beginning - with more than £12m invested over the next 3 years.
White storks nest at Dagenham country park in rewilding project
White storks, were previously driven to extinction in Britain, and not seen in London for 600 years.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Everyone deserves to enjoy nature.
Through my Green Roots Fund we’re backing fantastic projects, including the first white storks breeding colony in London for 600 years.
This is only the beginning - with more than £12m invested over the next 3 years.
Through my Green Roots Fund we’re backing fantastic projects, including the first white storks breeding colony in London for 600 years.
This is only the beginning - with more than £12m invested over the next 3 years.
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Winter landscape ❄️
December 7, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Winter landscape ❄️
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a beautiful late winter morning along the Wee Mad Road with the sun illuminating the fantastic birches of Assynt.
December 6, 2025 at 10:19 AM
a beautiful late winter morning along the Wee Mad Road with the sun illuminating the fantastic birches of Assynt.
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Have you 'herd'? 🐮
We're still accepting entries for our 2025/2026 Astrophotography Competition!
Find out more and enter: southdowns.gov.uk/dark-night-skies/astrophotography-competition 💫
📸: Christopher Pearson
We're still accepting entries for our 2025/2026 Astrophotography Competition!
Find out more and enter: southdowns.gov.uk/dark-night-skies/astrophotography-competition 💫
📸: Christopher Pearson
December 6, 2025 at 5:04 AM
Have you 'herd'? 🐮
We're still accepting entries for our 2025/2026 Astrophotography Competition!
Find out more and enter: southdowns.gov.uk/dark-night-skies/astrophotography-competition 💫
📸: Christopher Pearson
We're still accepting entries for our 2025/2026 Astrophotography Competition!
Find out more and enter: southdowns.gov.uk/dark-night-skies/astrophotography-competition 💫
📸: Christopher Pearson
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"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Nature recovery plan in England hit by clause allowing contracts to end with a year’s notice
Conservationists say changes, coupled with underfunding, will curb take-up and leave less land protected for nature
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM
"£500m over 20 years is sod all," said @jakefiennes.bsky.social, responding to this week's announcement of govt funding for Landscape Recovery
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
As Jake rightly points out, this is a fraction of the overall farming budget & not what was originally promised
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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See how we're (mis)using Earth in 100 Seconds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHz...
#Earthin100Seconds @markruffalo.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHz...
#Earthin100Seconds @markruffalo.bsky.social
Earth in 100 Seconds: Revealing Humanity's Global Footprint | National Geographic
YouTube video by National Geographic
www.youtube.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:51 PM
See how we're (mis)using Earth in 100 Seconds
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHz...
#Earthin100Seconds @markruffalo.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4yHz...
#Earthin100Seconds @markruffalo.bsky.social
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Announcing our new photography exhibition, Water Pantanal Fire.
Featuring over 60 striking images from the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, this exhibition captures the vibrant wildlife of this aquatic paradise, and the wildfires that threaten its fragile beauty.
Featuring over 60 striking images from the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, this exhibition captures the vibrant wildlife of this aquatic paradise, and the wildfires that threaten its fragile beauty.
December 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Announcing our new photography exhibition, Water Pantanal Fire.
Featuring over 60 striking images from the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, this exhibition captures the vibrant wildlife of this aquatic paradise, and the wildfires that threaten its fragile beauty.
Featuring over 60 striking images from the Pantanal, the world’s largest wetland, this exhibition captures the vibrant wildlife of this aquatic paradise, and the wildfires that threaten its fragile beauty.
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Good news!
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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December 3, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Good news!
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
Earlier this year I shared reports that the land around the Cerne Abbas Giant was up for sale
I’m delighted that, after lots of conversations, the land has now been bought by the National Trust (who already own the Giant): www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
bsky.app/profile/guys...
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The National Emergency Briefing last week might soon be televised—what impact could that have on awareness and policy?
Watch this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
Join our climate action community: www.collectiveforclimateaction.org/cross-govern...
#ClimateAction #Preparedness
Watch this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
Join our climate action community: www.collectiveforclimateaction.org/cross-govern...
#ClimateAction #Preparedness
This is not the video I had planned to make.
I had a completely different video planned for today. But life changed last week, and I thought you should know about it.
Help support this channel's independence…
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December 1, 2025 at 10:00 AM
The National Emergency Briefing last week might soon be televised—what impact could that have on awareness and policy?
Watch this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
Join our climate action community: www.collectiveforclimateaction.org/cross-govern...
#ClimateAction #Preparedness
Watch this video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sa7...
Join our climate action community: www.collectiveforclimateaction.org/cross-govern...
#ClimateAction #Preparedness
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We're in a national emergency, but we're not talking or acting as if we are.
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
⬇️
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
⬇️
December 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
We're in a national emergency, but we're not talking or acting as if we are.
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
⬇️
This dangerous disconnect is why we convened the @nebriefing.bsky.social. Our goal was to reset the national conversation on the climate and nature crises, cutting through the sea of misinformation holding us back.
⬇️
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Paul Brown on SMRs:
“the problem is that they do not yet exist, except on paper or on a computer. No factory has been built to make their components, no prototype has been built, no licensing process has taken place.
…Unlike wind & solar, nuclear costs have consistently gone up for decades.”
“the problem is that they do not yet exist, except on paper or on a computer. No factory has been built to make their components, no prototype has been built, no licensing process has taken place.
…Unlike wind & solar, nuclear costs have consistently gone up for decades.”
‘I have watched politicians failing yet and yet again’: lessons from a life as an environment writer
Paul Brown looks back at his career reporting on the climate crisis, failed summit and nuclear power – and how to do it well
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Paul Brown on SMRs:
“the problem is that they do not yet exist, except on paper or on a computer. No factory has been built to make their components, no prototype has been built, no licensing process has taken place.
…Unlike wind & solar, nuclear costs have consistently gone up for decades.”
“the problem is that they do not yet exist, except on paper or on a computer. No factory has been built to make their components, no prototype has been built, no licensing process has taken place.
…Unlike wind & solar, nuclear costs have consistently gone up for decades.”
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Special discount until December 7! 🧪
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Special discount until December 7! 🧪
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
Grab yourself or a friend a signed/personalized copy of OUT THERE: THE SCIENCE BEHIND SCI-FI FILM & TV with a foreword from astronaut Mae Jemison...
...and support a indie filmmaker (me!) at the same time.
20% off with code SCIENCE:
patreon.com/arielwaldman
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I have a theory that it is the designed obsolescence of stuff that is causing the rage. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Rage rooms: can smashing stuff up really help to relieve anger and stress?
Venues promoting destruction as stress relief are appearing around the UK but experts – and our correspondent – are unsure
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 7:30 PM
I have a theory that it is the designed obsolescence of stuff that is causing the rage. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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“Buy from someone reputable, look for transparency, and prioritise warranty and repairability over a too-good-to-be-true discount, and you can come out of Black Friday with great devices and a lighter footprint.” www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
Don’t buy new tech this Black Friday: expert tips for buying refurbished phones and laptops
Tech is on its last legs? Refurbished can be the cheaper, greener option. Here’s how to choose well and avoid the pitfalls
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
“Buy from someone reputable, look for transparency, and prioritise warranty and repairability over a too-good-to-be-true discount, and you can come out of Black Friday with great devices and a lighter footprint.” www.theguardian.com/thefilter/20...
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There were some incredibly powerful talks at the #NationalEmergencyBriefing today
And hearing 9 interrelated themes brought home the systemic nature of the polycrisis. Can this be the start of a societal tipping point?
. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And hearing 9 interrelated themes brought home the systemic nature of the polycrisis. Can this be the start of a societal tipping point?
. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Scientists warn of severe climate-related risks to UK economy and security
Experts lay out scale of changes needed in ‘first-of-its-kind national emergency briefing’ in Westminster
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:09 PM
There were some incredibly powerful talks at the #NationalEmergencyBriefing today
And hearing 9 interrelated themes brought home the systemic nature of the polycrisis. Can this be the start of a societal tipping point?
. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
And hearing 9 interrelated themes brought home the systemic nature of the polycrisis. Can this be the start of a societal tipping point?
. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Powerful morning of gut-punching presentations on true gravity of #climate & nature emergency from leading scientists speaking at packed #nationalemergencybriefing. Overwhelmingly clear we can only make the necessary green transition if social justice & equity are at its heart
November 27, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Powerful morning of gut-punching presentations on true gravity of #climate & nature emergency from leading scientists speaking at packed #nationalemergencybriefing. Overwhelmingly clear we can only make the necessary green transition if social justice & equity are at its heart
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Crooked, an old image from "Intimate Winter", part of the wonderful Landscape Editions books at @kozubooks.bsky.social
#Scotland
#Photography
#Scotland
#Photography
November 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Crooked, an old image from "Intimate Winter", part of the wonderful Landscape Editions books at @kozubooks.bsky.social
#Scotland
#Photography
#Scotland
#Photography