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Carola Huttmann
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Hermit, writer, reader, book reviewer, independent scholar
Advocate for disability, mental health, equal rights, reducing climate change, saving the environment

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https://carolahuttmann.blogspot.com
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9th – 15th November 2025 is #InternationalWeekofScienceandPeace

Science is essential to understanding our world & building a better future. Explore the vital connection between science, technology & peace.
www.un.org/en/observanc...
#Science #Peace #Technology #Climate #ClimateChange #HumanRights
November 9, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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#LAUNCHEDTODAY in honour of the 3rd anniversary of her death, #OTD 22 September 2022.

The #HilaryMantel #Prize for #DebutAuthors is open for submissions of #adultfiction until 31 December 2025.
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#Writing #amwriting #Books #Fiction #WritingCommunity #ReadingCommunity
September 22, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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NOW PUBLISHED & AVAILABLE .....
smhp.scot

Scotland’s Mental Health: It’s Time for Action, partnership manifesto for urgent & lasting change.

17 organisations. One call: bold action to end Scotland’s #mentalhealthemergency.

#ItsTimeForAction #MentalHealthScotland #MentalHealth #MentalWellbeing
September 17, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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TURNING AMBITION INTO ACTION
Let's do what we can to save our planet

From 1-6 September Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia, will host the 2nd #UN #ClimateWeek of 2025 (CW2)
unfccc.int/topics/clima...
#ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #Environment #GlobalWarming #UNEP
September 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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A very #HappySeptember to all my lovely followers. Thank you for your interest in my timeline & your continuing support. Best wishes to you & all your loved ones.
#Books #BookCommunity #BookSky #Reading #ReadingCommunity #PoetryCommunity #MentalHealth #Wellbeing #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment
September 1, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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SAVE THE DATE: 10 February 2026

Really looking forward to reading this. I loved Eleanor Shearer's debut novel, RIVER SING ME HOME (2023).
#Books #BooksWorthReading #BookCommunity #Reading #ReadingCommunity #Fiction #Literature #FirefliesInWinter #EleanorShearer @headlinebooks.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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NEW ON MY BLOG .....

Another Failure on the Road to Saving Our Planet
carolahuttmann.blogspot.com/2018/06/anot...

#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateEmergency #ClimateJustice #Environment #PlasticPollutionTreaty #PlasticPollution #UNEP
August 23, 2025 at 7:49 AM
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Today is #WorldHumanitarianDay2025
2024 was the deadliest year ever for humanitarian workers. 2025 could be even worse. ACT NOW!! Prevent further #temperaturerises. Reduce #carbonemissions, #waste & #plastics, live more #sustainably.
#ClimateChange #Environment #LiveSustainably #CO2 #GlobalWarming
August 19, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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A poem for #August. It feels incredibly relevant to our time.

TIRED
by Langston Hughes

I am so tired of waiting,
Aren't you,
For the world to become good
And beautiful and kind?
Let us take a knife
And cut the world in two –
And see what worms are eating
At the rind.

#NewMonth
August 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Today sees the start of the 2025 Island Games, this year hosted by #Orkney. What a great setting. Good luck to all involved #islands, competitors, organisers and those working tirelessly behind the scenes to make the Games the success they deserve to be. #Orkney2025 #IslandGames
July 12, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Happy American Independence Day to all who celebrate it.
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#4thofJuly #AmericanIndependenceDay #IndependenceDay #independenceday2025
July 4, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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We only have one Earth. Let's celebrate #WorldEnvironmentDay by promising to better look after our planet & living more sustainably.
#WorldEnvironmentDay2025 #EnvironmentDay #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateJustice #Biodiversity #FossilFuels #GlobalWarming
June 5, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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Today is #StMagnusDay, celebrating Magnus Erlendsson, the first Earl of #Orkney, who died #OTD in 1117AD.

Laid to rest #OTD in 1996, the #Orkney poet and writer, #GeorgeMackayBrown who died three days earlier.

St. Magnus was a major preoccupation in GMB's life and work.
April 16, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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Died #OTD in 1996: the #Orkney #poet and #writer, #GeorgeMackayBrown (1921 - 1996)

“The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.”
― George Mackay Brown

Rest in peace, George. Thank you for all your beautiful words.
April 13, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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Happy #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
Let's celebrate the fantastic achievements of women in STEM studies, research and occupations .......
#WomenInScience
February 11, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Sobering!!
@unep.org‬ #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #Environment #CO2 #FossilFuels #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming #NetZero #SustainableFuture #GreenFuture #Sustainability
February 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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I'm currently #reading Lawrence Buell's book, 'The Environmental Imagination' (1995) in which he talks about the writer and environmentalist, Henry David #Thoreau (1817 – 1862).
#ReadingCommunity #Environment #Nature #Biodiversity #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
January 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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A very #HappyNewYear to all my lovely followers. Thank you for your continuing interest in my timeline.

One last chance to download and read my seasonal A CHRISTMAS STORY for free.🙂
drive.google.com/file/d/1MHXN...
#Books #eBooks #Reading #ReadingCommunity #Fantasy #Fiction #HappyNewYear2025
January 1, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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A CHRISTMAS STORY
drive.google.com/file/d/1MHXN...
I wrote a seasonal story recently and thought for once I'd share it with the wider world. It's free, but if you enjoy it perhaps you'd like to buy me a coffee or even just leave a message ko-fi.co/carolahuttmann.
#eBooks #ReadingCommunity #Reading
December 1, 2024 at 1:47 PM
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Two very different books for me .....
old: Greenvoe (1972), by George Mackay Brown (1921 - 1996)
recent: Night Train to Odesa (2024), by Jen Stout which has just won the #SaltireBookAwards First Book Award.
#Books #Reading #ReadingCommunity
November 30, 2024 at 10:26 AM
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One of my favourite quote, ever. I need it today.
November 26, 2024 at 1:22 PM
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NEW BLOG POST

A BIRD'S EYE VIEW OF CLIMATE CHANGE
carolahuttmann.blogspot.com/2018/06/a-bi...
#Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #COP29 #Biodiversity #Environment #FossilFuels #CO2 #CarbonEmissions #GreenhouseGasses #GlobalHeating #GlobalWarming #Pollution
November 24, 2024 at 12:47 PM
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So, it looks — from what I read & hear — that #COP29 is another abject failure, with insufficient agreements to keep #carbonemissions below 1.5%. Time is running out. The world is quite literally running on empty. SO much to do; let's get on & make sure our planet survives.
#climate #climatechange
November 21, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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Happy #BookWeekScotland!!

I'm currently re-reading this wonderful book. Published twenty years ago, it's still one of my favourite texts on the #Orkney poet and writer #GeorgeMackayBrown.
#Books #Reading #ReadingCommunity #Stromness
November 18, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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My literary hero #GeorgeMackayBrown (1921 - 1996) was an astute observer of the human condition as this quote demonstrates. Timeless and always relevant, somehow it feels particularly poignant in these straitened times of #climatechange, economic and political instability and uncertainty ...
#Orkney
November 13, 2024 at 7:40 PM