The evening before our first EcoCit People’s Assembly we gathered for a screening of Chris Packham’s C4 documentary Is it time to break the law?. We began the ensuing discussion by asking everyone to first say how Packham’s film left them feeling. Anger, respect, overwhelm, determination came up, and as people spoke, a common sense…

In October 2023 I found myself in Court for the first time, charged with Wilful Obstruction of the Highway after an action with Just Stop Oil one year previous. This is an account of what took place in the Court, from memory. Feeling overwhelmed by the legal admin that facing trial as a Self Repper…

My friend Ali Rowe and I published this Open Letter to UK Vice Chancellors last week. It seemed to both of us that there are many within UK HE who fully support the students and alumni taking up nonviolent action on UK campuses, but who have thus far not found a way to make that…

A letter submitted to the Falmouth Packet after the recent Penryn campus Just Stop Oil actions by Holly Astle and Ethan Paul. I was grateful to see Dr Timothy Cooper’s letter to the Packet in support of the two young Just Stop Oil activists Holly Astle and Ethan Paul, who were arrested on Penryn campus…

Ecocide demands a response. The Dark Mountain Manifesto, 2009 This autumn we’ve begun an experiment in community-based education at Falmouth University. The idea grew from an End Fossil! student occupation of the main campus lecture theatre here in November 2022. Those eight occupiers – a good example of how our world is changed and changed…

From a conversation with friends at Bright Earth buddhist sangha. From time to time I fall into a pattern of waking around 3am, often when there’s some conflict or turmoil at work in me. I had one of these wakeful nights last week. As I lay there in a familiar pool of unease an odd…

Tracking a cautious return to the notion of undertaking a practice-based PhD, these Seacrow Letters gravitate back to much the same dilemma I spoke of nine years ago, when first considering this path. They’re about learning to speak and to listen differently, and what this has to do with ecological healing. Coming Unstuck: responding to…

On reading and writing in company, and the virtues of a snail’s-eye view. Somewhere near the start of the first Covid lockdown I picked up an open invitation from my old friend and colleague, the poet Alyson Hallett. Alyson had an idea to explore the creative possibilities of this new Zoom thing that had begun…

Dr Rachel Clarke joined art.earth as our first Borrowed Time keynote back in June 2021. Rachel spoke with us about some of those she encountered whilst working in NHS hospitals throughout the worst phases of the pandemic, and how she arrived at a new understanding of hope during those terrible months. She also made an…

Here in the epilogue to art.earth’s beautiful Borrowed Time publication Richard Povall and I ended with the question that’s run the length and breadth of this two-year symposium: In the context of biospheric collapse, what do we mean by hope? Of the questions that circulated through these Borrowed Time conversations, one of the most insistent…