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#sustainability #ecology #nature #activism

'Join the Less Lawn, More Life 12-week challenge, a free online program to transform your lawn into an improved outdoor space and better habitat for birds, butterflies, and other beneficial insects.

Hosted by Plan it Wild in collaboration with 11 organizations (including Wild Ones, where I’m a member), Less Lawn, More Life launches May 1, 2025.'

https://www.lireo.com/less-lawn-more-life-2025/

#Poetry #Book #PoetryBook #Chapbook #Pamphlet #PoetryPamphlet #QPoetryComrades #Ecology #Conservation #Cosmology #CosmologicalEcology #SciFi #DrakeEquation #FermiParadox #SETI #UKPoetry #Extinction #DoWeHaveAFuture?

I wrote a book.

It is called "For the hypothetical aliens" and it is about our place in the universe, how we relate to nature, and what that means for us, individually.

It takes a stance somewhat centred on the dissonance between a SciFi way of looking at things vs. "realism".

It's about 40 pages of actual poetry plus the contents page, acknowledgements etc and (warning) it does contain one five page poem purporting to be about a mathematical equation...

The usual price is £5 but I am discounting them to £4 at the moment. Shipping in the UK is £1.80.

If you live elsewhere in the world we'll have to strategize because there have been problems sending pamphlets/magazines from the UK since Brexit 😢.

If you want to order one, or invite me to read from it at your poetry evening, please PM me.

Contents page of a poetry pamphlet reading:

Dedication 8
Slightly more serious dedication 8
By way of a preface… 11
A note on broken hearts 12
All about the Drake equation 14
A note on the Kardashev scale 19
This is us, speaking 21
On the search for extraterrestrial intelligence 22
Calling occupants of interplanetary craft 24
The city on the edge of whatever 25
It isn’t what they say, or even how they say it, but more about there being any they to speak at all 27
What is her mission here on earth... 28
The universe speaks to you 29
Personal space probe 33
She knows whereof she speaks… 34
We are nothing if we do not learn from this 37
On waking… 38
On man’s inhumanity to man… 40
Everything I know about humanity… 42
Let’s be clear, the book has ended 47
The shapes of things to come 48
Addendum 51
Acknowledgements 52
About the author 53

Cover of a poetry pamphlet, the title is "For the hypothetical aliens". It is orange and worn, like an old document folder, and it has some sort of security stamp declaring the contents top have been reclassified "Non sensitive"

An inside page from a poetry pamphlet showing the start of a poem:

_The universe speaks to you_

I - Water...

...flows,
but has no thought of flowing. Every droplet
of rain free
to follow its weird
find its level
bead the underside
of a leaf, the whole
nonetheless
adding up to moorland brook, burbling
here and now and in a single direction. Far downstream,
current toys with grit
does not imagine things better
if this pebble were elsewhere
but nags at it
wobbles it
urges it to move
and a mere
thousand years later
a mighty estuary deltas
one side of the continent. The stream meanwhile
is cutting a new channel
through the limestone ridge.

Each molecule is part of something larger
and doesn't know
or things it knows do not make sense. Water's
unfeeling mechanism
floods a city or builds an ecosystem
and even if the outcome of civilisation
is nothing humans comprehend
it will be that rich.

A good news story to lighten the mood, eh. Well done these #Australian folks attempting to rescue a great white #shark that had got beached. Nice to see humanity extended even to a creature that gets a bad rep

#nature #conservation #ecology

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/may/02/my-hearts-pounding-australians-wade-into-ocean-to-save-great-white-shark-stranded-in-shallow-water

Delighted to be highlighted as one of the most read authors in the @BritishEcolSoc journal Functional Ecology in recent years!

This follows being higlighted as a #TopCitedArticle last month. Great to see we're having influence

#ecology #acoustics #TopViewedArticle

The paper invovled "Passive acoustic monitoring provides a fresh perspective on fundamental ecological questions" can be found here
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.14275

https://chrissmaje.com/2020/06/why-oil-didnt-save-the-whales-and-why-it-matters/

#ClimateChange #whales #oil #ecology #capitalism

A firm principle of the oil salvation narrative is that human inventiveness brings forth new and superior alternatives to old and ecocidal ones, like kerosene for whale oil, and that market forces then swiftly do the work of ecological transition. But, leaving aside kerosene’s own ecocidal effects (Point 2), the history of whaling really doesn’t fit this narrative well. Substitutes for almost every whale product existed long before commercial whaling was banned in 1982, 130 years after Mr Gesner’s marvellous invention. The truth is that market forces don’t swiftly do the work of ecological transition, for numerous reasons – sunk costs, industry resistance, political leverage, wider geopolitics to name a few. Cue TED talk: “Oil didn’t save the whales, and market forces aren’t going to solve climate change.”

Haven’t been very active lately. I had an #operation two days ago and was told to take it easy for a while. No lifting, no bending, no stretching, …
Nothing too alarming, I hope, except that every invasive procedure is a concern. They did this with a general #anaesthetic as a day procedure!
Before my operation, I was extremely busy in the garden getting things ready for afterwards.
Photograph is of our Wisteria by the garage, climbing across its custom built frame and into the Prunus serrulata (Japanese flowering cherry) behind.
‣ Upright. Click to see all.

#ArtistsGarden #ImperfectGarden #garden #gardener #gardening #GardenPhotography #Artist #wolfkettler #Photography #GardenWiltshire #WiltshireGarden #Wiltshire #sustainable #spring #bloomscrolling #biodiversity #natural #NaturalGarden #WildlifeFriendly #PlanetFriendly #PollinatorFriendly #ecology #climate #ClimateChange #conservation #sustainability

Small, blue and white flowers of a wisteria across the middle of the photograph before a mass of green and red leaves from trees and shrubs and a tiny area of blue sky at the top.

#Ecology and #environment predict spatially stratified #risk of #H5 highly pathogenic avian #influenza clade 2.3.4.4b in wild #birds across #Europe, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/05/ecology-and-environment-predict.html

🪁 Non-native trees gain ground in eastern US, reducing native species diversity

(... blame Ben Franklin!)

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-native-trees-gain-ground-eastern.html

#forests #northeast #usa #biodiversity #invasives #ecology #conservation

Hippopotamuses (Hippopotamus amphibius) can be cute & dangerous. They're responsible for an estimated 500 human deaths annually in Africa, making them the deadliest large land mammal on the continent-more dangerous than lions, leopards, elephants or crocodiles. #ecology #photo #nature #wildlife #biology #animals

In Zimbabwe, community seed banks are helping build climate resilience

The system, which empowers farmers to produce diverse crops and own the means of production, is gaining traction worldwide

https://www.newzimbabwe.com/in-zimbabwe-community-seed-banks-are-helping-build-climate-resilience/

#Zimbabwe #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Blessed Beltane. May we rise up like a Phoenix from the ashes.

Don't forget to leave a comment opposing the proposed change to the Endangered Species Act, which will change the definition of "harm" to no longer include habitat destruction. Protection of critical habitat is one of the best ways to protect a species, as without a place to live the species will indeed go extinct.

Please add a public comment to this today! We have until May 19th, and it only takes about five minutes of your time: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/17/2025-06746/rescinding-the-definition-of-harm-under-the-endangered-species-act

If you need help writing a comment, here is a how-to outline: https://imginn.com/p/DJA7OOmMP8e/

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#beltane #mayDay #photography #earth #environment #ecology #biology #science #protest #dog #dogsOfMastodon

A photograph in the evening of a campfire in a stone ring flaring up. A white and brown australian shepherd dog leaps up behind it, but perspective makes it look like she is leaping up from the flames. Person on the right is dressed in a purple bodice, yellow shirt, and purple & yellow fairy type skirt.

Restoring oil wells back to nature with moss

https://uwaterloo.ca/climate-institute/news/restoring-oil-wells-back-nature-moss

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

House votes to block California from banning sales of gas cars by 2035

Both the Senate parliamentarian and the Government Accountability Office have concluded that Congress lacks authority to block California’s climate policy

https://archive.ph/964ad#selection-275.0-279.154

#California #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

On May Day, workers are calling - climate activism must answer
Anabella Rosemberg
6–8 minutes

This May Day, the battle lines are clear: workers’ rights and climate justice must stand together – or we will all fall together

https://www.climatechangenews.com/2025/05/01/on-may-day-workers-are-calling-and-climate-activists-must-answer/

#workers #USA #US #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

#MayDay is Red & Green | read the article from #NewGreenHorizons

https://newgreenhorizons.us/may-day-is-red-and-green/

#GreenSocialist #GreenParty #EcoSocialist #EcoSocialism #Socialist #Socialism #Marxist #Marxism #GreenSocialism #Revolution #Peace #Ecology #SocialJustice #Democracy #Education #DualPower #Election #Elections #Vote #Voting #Politics #Electoral #ElectoralReforms #Organizing #Organize #Reading #Discussion #Learning #Worker #Workers #Labor #Union #Unions #WorkersRights #LaborRights #UnionsRights #HumanRights

Galway Theatre Festival includes climate change drag cabarets and politically provocative drama

This article first appeared on Galway Bay FM. Galway Theatre Festival is kicking off its jam-packed programme of events tomorrow

https://connachttribune.ie/galway-theatre-festival-includes-climate-change-drag-cabarets-and-politically-provocative-drama/

#art #Galway #Ireland #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate

Across Europe, over 340 cities are reducing car dependence—and it’s working. From Paris to Milan, policies that limit car use have led to cleaner air, lower emissions, and more vibrant, walkable communities. But in the U.S., most cities still prioritise cars over people

https://www.onegreenplanet.org/environment/petition-u-s-cities-must-cut-car-use-like-europe-to-tackle-climate-change/

#USA #US #Europe #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #IrreversibleOverheating #UpheavalClimate #GlobalBurning #ClimateDestruction #ClimateSuicide #MassExtinction #pollution #ecology #environment #climate