Mud & Thunder
mudandthunder.bsky.social
Mud & Thunder
@mudandthunder.bsky.social
We are filmmakers, researchers, listeners and storytellers. We combine real listening with qualitative research and storytelling.
www.mudandthunder.com
#Newport is our home and we’re excited to be starting a new project creating a magazine about the good things happening here for people and planet.

1st launch meeting 17th Sept at Maindee Library.

#circulareconomy #southwales
September 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Interesting to think how AI could boost the power of communities and groups open.substack.com/pub/entangle...
AI & community - a tremendous opportunity?
And an invitation to experiment together
open.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Good and vital to hear the interviews and voices of those with lived experience in a hugely over complicated food system podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/f...
Hunger on our doorstep (Part 1)
Podcast Episode · Feed: a food systems podcast · 31/07/2025 · 39m
podcasts.apple.com
August 21, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Good to see this approach to co-creating adaptation targets with communities using story. Building shared language and understanding is such an important part creating change. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKY5...
Narrative change workshop: Co-creating adaptation targets with communities
YouTube video by Scottish Communities Climate Action Network
www.youtube.com
August 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Sign up to our newsletter and see some great projects we’ve been working on lately mailchi.mp/413586494bbe...
Subscribe to Mud and Thunder's newletter
mailchi.mp
August 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM
😀🌿 Spreading weed seeds far and wide! - 1974: The Wonderful WEED WOMAN www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dzP...
1974: The Wonderful WEED WOMAN | Nationwide | Weird and Wonderful | BBC Archive
YouTube video by BBC Archive
www.youtube.com
August 3, 2025 at 5:47 PM
‘I saw that the camera could be a weapon against poverty, against racism, against all sorts of social wrongs. I knew at that point I had to have a camera.’
– Gordon Parks (1912-2006)
What Gordon Parks Saw www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcVO...
What Gordon Parks Saw
YouTube video by Nerdwriter1
www.youtube.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Reposted by Mud & Thunder
The powerful short documentary Blue Room observes individuals incarcerated in the Pacific Northwest as they participate in an experimental programme that allows them to take in tranquil sounds and images of nature on TV screens
What do screens depicting serene natural scenes mean to those living in lock-up? | Aeon Videos
Solitary inmates find calm in nature videos in an experiment reflecting the human need to connect with the natural world
buff.ly
July 9, 2025 at 10:55 AM
A good listen, linking the food we eat to the soil, to the flavours, to health, to the planet. The Food Programme - The Periodic Table of Food - BBC Sounds www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
The Food Programme - The Periodic Table of Food - BBC Sounds
Dan Saladino explores new science that's revealing the complexity hidden within our food.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 15, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Reposted by Mud & Thunder
"We’ve got to do something different. We’ve got to do something very different. The tendency is to want to patch up here, do a little bit there. But we’re well beyond that."
Are You Building Something? (SSIR)
An interview with Marshall Ganz on what the social sector gets wrong about power and structural change
ssir.org
February 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
“This is not a dry spell. This is a slow-moving global catastrophe, the worst I’ve ever seen.” Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report | Drought | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Droughts worldwide pushing tens of millions towards starvation, says report
Water shortages hitting crops, energy and health as crisis gathers pace amid climate breakdown
www.theguardian.com
July 3, 2025 at 3:48 PM
How to prepare a city for more rainfall: 300 flood-mitigation projects over two decades
www.npr.org/2025/06/13/n...
Copenhagen is adapting to a warmer world with rain tunnels and 'sponge parks'
Copenhagen is expected to receive 30% more rainfall by the end of the century. The city is responding with a massive long-term adaptation plan.
www.npr.org
June 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Reposted by Mud & Thunder
If you've never heard of marine heat waves, now is the time to pay attention.

Driven by climate change, these increasingly frequent and extreme ocean temperature events, like “the Blob” in the North Pacific, are devastating marine life, disrupting fisheries, and impacting weather patterns. 🌊
See How Marine Heat Waves Are Spreading Across the Globe
www.nytimes.com
June 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
In praise of saltmarshes - teaming with life, storers of carbon and just awesome to look at. It’s #worldsaltmarshday here’s an aerial view of#Newportwetlands at Goldcliff. What amazing habitats to have right on our door step in Newport.
June 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Beautiful to see Square Farm near #Monmouth opening its fields to share their journey and knowledge. They’ve transitioned from a farm that used pesticides and fertilisers to one that has been named as one of the top 5 Soil Farmers of the Year 2025. #regenerativeagriculture #regen
June 9, 2025 at 9:16 AM
#Gwentlevels intertidal zone - 20,300 hectares of mudflats, sandflats and saltmarsh - the fourth largest area in a UK estuary. It’s a home to worms and molluscs and an important habitat for birds (dunlin, curlew, oyster catcher) - it’s more than mud and water, it’s alive. #newport #mudflats
June 3, 2025 at 6:47 AM
For the last 6 yrs we’ve been creating media to amplify and share stories that are making this planet a better place to live.
#environmentaljustice #socialjustice #digitalstories #narrativechange #southwales
May 15, 2025 at 10:44 AM
"Stories move in from the shadows to the limelight. And though the stage presents the drama of our powerlessness, the shadows offer the secret of our power." — Rebecca Solnit
May 14, 2025 at 10:53 AM
"It matters what stories make worlds, what worlds make stories." - Donna J. Haraway
May 14, 2025 at 10:26 AM