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Jan 8, 2025 | 
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Welcome to Regen Notes as we move into 2025. Regen/ Notes is a reader-supported publication, so a big thank you and welcome to new subscribers. To receive new posts and support my work, please do consider becoming a paid subscriber. Calendar Plants Inspired by the reading of The Serviceberry, where Robin Wall Kimmerer references the Serviceberry as a calendar plant, I have been reflecting over the winter break on what are (my) UK calendar plants.
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Dec 11, 2024 | 
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Reconnecting with Nature will Save our Society. A Living Future Europe publication“We know in our hearts and souls that a healthy connection with nature isn’t a luxury - it is the foundation for our personal wellbeing, the catalyst for our achievements, the strength of our organisations and the key to a thriving ecological future” Martin BrownOur relationship with nature changed during the pandemic lockdown.
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Nov 17, 2024 | 
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Reading Under the Changing Skies, a collection of Guardian Country Diaries from the last 20 years has me thinking on the impact and influence of these daily diaries. The Guardian Country Diary is one of the longest-running newspaper columns in the world. It began in 1906 and continues to be published daily. The column consists of beautifully written observations of nature, wildlife, and rural life from different locations across Britain.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
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Ahead of my presentation on Kinship at the JBD Biophilia Conference in London on the 12th of November, where I am scheduled for 17:20 … here is a little background to my evolving exploration of five characters, passing through our village in Lancashire.
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Oct 23, 2024 | 
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
fairsnape.substack.com | Martin Brown
Beauty has once again surfaced in many conversations recently: at the brilliant SEDA conference in Aberdeen (post on that coming soon), in our Living Future Europe Biophilic Society meetings, in arranging Don Ruggles to talk at our next society session, and the always inspiring Satish Kumar and Robin Wall Kimmerer talking at the Resurgencce Wellbeing Festival on Saturday.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
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It is the autumn equinox and we are striding albeit slowly up the slopes of Black Combe in the Lake District. It’s an extreme outlier in the southwest of the district. Wainwright described the grass bridleway to its summit from Whicham “amongst the most delectable of Lakeland fell paths”We have seen watched black combe from afar across Moreham Bay, from our local and daily Beacon Fell walks.
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Sep 11, 2024 | 
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Emotional Durability ...'because it moves the head and the heart' "could save the planet"Following recent comments to a LinkedIn post around Emotional Durability and Beauty, I am repurposing this Regen/Notes post from 2022 (Design and Build like the Earth depends upon it) …Back in 2022 Zoom Regenerative #44 hosted Rachel Sheila Khan on the subject of emotional durability.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
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Back in 2008 we (that's Be2Camp) founded and held the first in a series of unconference events for the built environment. These were exciting times, learning and exploring the emerging social media and web2.0 scene in the built environment through the unconference approach often referred to as a barcamp (hence BE-2-Camp). On that first unconference, some 50 people turned up - with no set agenda, other than to explore.
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Aug 24, 2024 | 
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Wednesday. 6:30 am. An invigoratingly fresh early morning cycle. Yesterday was wet and dark with constant heavy rain. Tomorrow will be another day of unseasonal rain and dark clouds. Yet today, I had the sense of the world having been washed. Or at least in this place, this part of the world, a few dozen square miles of Beacon Fell (my nearby home for walks, cycles, reflection and facilitated nature connecting walks).
