markjleach
@markjleach.bsky.social
Shropshire raised, Bristol based, loves community action, music, food, outdoors, nature.
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‘Forest’ is the home of ‘Imagination’ - the invisible creative spirit of Bath.
Meet Forest co-founder @penahay.bsky.social the only Professor of Imagination in the entire country ✨
Support us to help bring this creative vision a reality & donate to Forest - link in bio 🌱✨
Meet Forest co-founder @penahay.bsky.social the only Professor of Imagination in the entire country ✨
Support us to help bring this creative vision a reality & donate to Forest - link in bio 🌱✨
August 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Some good news!🌼Bristol's Nature Together project will help improve nature and make it easier for people to enjoy and benefit from our city's urban green spaces thanks to £980K from
@heritagefunduk.bsky.social
@heritagefunduk.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Some good news!🌼Bristol's Nature Together project will help improve nature and make it easier for people to enjoy and benefit from our city's urban green spaces thanks to £980K from
@heritagefunduk.bsky.social
@heritagefunduk.bsky.social
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Reform MP and climate science denier Richard Tice says "it is an absolute outrage what the madness of net stupid zero is doing to our county." The net zero economy is growing 3x faster than the wider economy and employs 12,500 in Lincolnshire alone.
Britain’s net zero economy is booming, CBI says
Green sector growing at triple the rate of the UK economy, providing high-wage jobs and increasing energy security
www.theguardian.com
August 1, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Reform MP and climate science denier Richard Tice says "it is an absolute outrage what the madness of net stupid zero is doing to our county." The net zero economy is growing 3x faster than the wider economy and employs 12,500 in Lincolnshire alone.
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On Saturday, thousands of women from 16 cities formed a human chain to protest against Trump & Musk, chanting “shame on you” at the U.S. Consulate. There were demos across Quebec to mark International Women’s Day & denounce 🇺🇸 government attacks on women’s rights & Canada’s sovereignty.
March 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
On Saturday, thousands of women from 16 cities formed a human chain to protest against Trump & Musk, chanting “shame on you” at the U.S. Consulate. There were demos across Quebec to mark International Women’s Day & denounce 🇺🇸 government attacks on women’s rights & Canada’s sovereignty.
The Great Bristol Climate Resilience Gathering looks like a great event if you're in or near Bristol and interested in exploring what resilience means for our neighbourhoods, identifying the challenges we face, and finding practical solutions:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-...
The Great Bristol Climate Resilience Gathering
Communities are affected by the effects of climate change here. Let's get together and make our neighbourhoods the places we want!
www.eventbrite.co.uk
February 14, 2025 at 10:46 AM
The Great Bristol Climate Resilience Gathering looks like a great event if you're in or near Bristol and interested in exploring what resilience means for our neighbourhoods, identifying the challenges we face, and finding practical solutions:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-great-...
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In Africa, repair hubs are extending the life of solar devices, making clean energy more accessible and reducing waste. A win for people & the planet! 🌍🔆🔧
Read more: reasonstobecheerful.world/s...
#ClimateAction
Read more: reasonstobecheerful.world/s...
#ClimateAction
Inside Africa’s Trailblazing Solar Repair Movement
Solar power has transformed life in Africa. Now, as the aging devices begin to break down, “solar entrepreneurs” are keeping them — and local economies — humming.
reasonstobecheerful.world
February 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
In Africa, repair hubs are extending the life of solar devices, making clean energy more accessible and reducing waste. A win for people & the planet! 🌍🔆🔧
Read more: reasonstobecheerful.world/s...
#ClimateAction
Read more: reasonstobecheerful.world/s...
#ClimateAction
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For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
February 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
With libraries finally closing here in Bristol, is there any movement to have a trust or similar take over, has anyone heard?
January 17, 2025 at 10:54 AM
With libraries finally closing here in Bristol, is there any movement to have a trust or similar take over, has anyone heard?
@digitaldaisies.bsky.social found ya! :) Hope all good (well, as good as it can be given the circumstances we all find ourselves in... ;)
January 14, 2025 at 10:56 AM
@digitaldaisies.bsky.social found ya! :) Hope all good (well, as good as it can be given the circumstances we all find ourselves in... ;)
This is extraordinary from the National Trust - a comprehensive 10 year plan to mark the Trust’s 130th anniversary www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med... including partnership with Mind on mental health, fixing up urban green spaces and restoring peatland
Press release | Media
The National Trust marks its 130th birthday by unveiling hugely ambitious plans, as it launches a new 10-year strategy. See the full story
www.nationaltrust.org.uk
January 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
This is extraordinary from the National Trust - a comprehensive 10 year plan to mark the Trust’s 130th anniversary www.nationaltrust.org.uk/services/med... including partnership with Mind on mental health, fixing up urban green spaces and restoring peatland
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This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.
January 8, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This letter in the New Statesman a couple of years ago seems even truer now.
Who would be the fourth panel member?
Dear Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, Bill Dare and Jon Holmes - please get together and do a special edition of The Unbelievable Truth, but with Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg on the panel…
January 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Who would be the fourth panel member?
The media are confused, reeling - understandably. They haven’t realised these inconsistencies arise because a key driver besides the venal and self interest, is to do whatever and precisely winds up the liberal majority. And we commentators are still feeding that. We haven’t adapted.
January 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
The media are confused, reeling - understandably. They haven’t realised these inconsistencies arise because a key driver besides the venal and self interest, is to do whatever and precisely winds up the liberal majority. And we commentators are still feeding that. We haven’t adapted.
Dear Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, Bill Dare and Jon Holmes - please get together and do a special edition of The Unbelievable Truth, but with Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg on the panel…
January 8, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Dear Graeme Garden, Jon Naismith, Bill Dare and Jon Holmes - please get together and do a special edition of The Unbelievable Truth, but with Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg on the panel…
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“When Short Cuts announced the BBC’s decision to end the show this year, it felt like a gut punch to those of us who value creative, boundary-pushing audio… it leaves behind a legacy that will inspire storytellers for years to come — and it will be deeply missed.” podcastreview.org/list/best-po...
The 10 Best Podcasts of 2024 | Podcast Review
From The Good Whale to The Gray Area, here are the best podcasts of 2024.
podcastreview.org
January 2, 2025 at 9:37 AM
“When Short Cuts announced the BBC’s decision to end the show this year, it felt like a gut punch to those of us who value creative, boundary-pushing audio… it leaves behind a legacy that will inspire storytellers for years to come — and it will be deeply missed.” podcastreview.org/list/best-po...
With all eyes on Tbilisi, it's worth a reminder there are three i's in Tbilisi.
December 3, 2024 at 5:29 PM
With all eyes on Tbilisi, it's worth a reminder there are three i's in Tbilisi.
Signed!
Touched to see this @laurenpassell.bsky.social / @tinkmedia.bsky.social ! ✨
podcastmarketingmagic.substack.com/p/podcasts-w...
podcastmarketingmagic.substack.com/p/podcasts-w...
December 2, 2024 at 9:24 AM
Signed!
Touched to see this @laurenpassell.bsky.social / @tinkmedia.bsky.social ! ✨
podcastmarketingmagic.substack.com/p/podcasts-w...
podcastmarketingmagic.substack.com/p/podcasts-w...
December 2, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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Invest before THIS SATURDAY to help:
🏠Power a further 300 homes in Bristol (bringing the total to 3.8k)
🌍Save 1k tonnes of CO2
💰Reinvest £130k into community projects
Become part of Bristol’s green energy transformation here 👉 www.triodoscrowdfund...
🏠Power a further 300 homes in Bristol (bringing the total to 3.8k)
🌍Save 1k tonnes of CO2
💰Reinvest £130k into community projects
Become part of Bristol’s green energy transformation here 👉 www.triodoscrowdfund...
November 28, 2024 at 4:01 PM
Invest before THIS SATURDAY to help:
🏠Power a further 300 homes in Bristol (bringing the total to 3.8k)
🌍Save 1k tonnes of CO2
💰Reinvest £130k into community projects
Become part of Bristol’s green energy transformation here 👉 www.triodoscrowdfund...
🏠Power a further 300 homes in Bristol (bringing the total to 3.8k)
🌍Save 1k tonnes of CO2
💰Reinvest £130k into community projects
Become part of Bristol’s green energy transformation here 👉 www.triodoscrowdfund...
And finally...
Immersive technology as a way to engage people in nature.
Despite jumping on tech for the last 30 years, there's an uneasiness to experiencing nature through a helmet or goggles, but there's no denying its power and impact
#Communicate2024
marshmallowlaserfeast.com/project/brea...
Immersive technology as a way to engage people in nature.
Despite jumping on tech for the last 30 years, there's an uneasiness to experiencing nature through a helmet or goggles, but there's no denying its power and impact
#Communicate2024
marshmallowlaserfeast.com/project/brea...
Breathing with the Forest
Breathing with the Forest is an immersive video installation that illuminates the reciprocity of the ecosystem surrounding a capinuri tree (Maquira coriacea) in the Colombian Amazon. In recreating a r...
marshmallowlaserfeast.com
November 28, 2024 at 4:34 PM
And finally...
Immersive technology as a way to engage people in nature.
Despite jumping on tech for the last 30 years, there's an uneasiness to experiencing nature through a helmet or goggles, but there's no denying its power and impact
#Communicate2024
marshmallowlaserfeast.com/project/brea...
Immersive technology as a way to engage people in nature.
Despite jumping on tech for the last 30 years, there's an uneasiness to experiencing nature through a helmet or goggles, but there's no denying its power and impact
#Communicate2024
marshmallowlaserfeast.com/project/brea...
Just supported our incredible community partners at Ambition Lawrence Weston, Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust and the Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership to talk about the Community Climate Action Project and reflecting 20 years ago #Communicate2024 would never have included a session like this
November 28, 2024 at 3:27 PM
Just supported our incredible community partners at Ambition Lawrence Weston, Lockleaze Neighbourhood Trust and the Bristol Climate & Nature Partnership to talk about the Community Climate Action Project and reflecting 20 years ago #Communicate2024 would never have included a session like this
Some great provocations and insights from @jamiewclarke.bsky.social and @mjrharris.bsky.social on misinformation, cynicism and greenwashing impossible to summarise in 300ch but check out www.engagingclimate.org and 89up.org
#Communicate2024
#Communicate2024
Engaging Climate
Engaging Climate specializes in climate change communication, focusing on enhancing public engagement, mitigating polarization, and addressing misinformation. Our expert team supports effective, posit...
www.engagingclimate.org
November 28, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Some great provocations and insights from @jamiewclarke.bsky.social and @mjrharris.bsky.social on misinformation, cynicism and greenwashing impossible to summarise in 300ch but check out www.engagingclimate.org and 89up.org
#Communicate2024
#Communicate2024
The day started with the changes over the 20 years (!) of Communicate - it seems the gulf between what media channels think consumers want vs the content environmental professionals want to put out there has seen little or no change over those 2 decades - what do you think?
#Communicate2024
#Communicate2024
November 28, 2024 at 11:09 AM
The day started with the changes over the 20 years (!) of Communicate - it seems the gulf between what media channels think consumers want vs the content environmental professionals want to put out there has seen little or no change over those 2 decades - what do you think?
#Communicate2024
#Communicate2024
Jenny Hatchard BBC, @chantallyons.bsky.social & Adam Royle @nationaltrust.bsky.social take on current nature/climate news includes @theguardian.com Long Read - people leaving rural lands doesn't necessarily mean a return to Eden: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
#Communicate2024
#InvasiveSpecies
#Communicate2024
#InvasiveSpecies
The great abandonment: what happens to the natural world when people disappear?
The long read: Across the globe, vast swathes of land are being left to be reclaimed by nature. To see what could be coming, look to Bulgaria
www.theguardian.com
November 28, 2024 at 10:37 AM
Jenny Hatchard BBC, @chantallyons.bsky.social & Adam Royle @nationaltrust.bsky.social take on current nature/climate news includes @theguardian.com Long Read - people leaving rural lands doesn't necessarily mean a return to Eden: www.theguardian.com/news/2024/no...
#Communicate2024
#InvasiveSpecies
#Communicate2024
#InvasiveSpecies