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Facing the Oncoming Storm – Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (SAFER) with Rupert Read – Rupert Read

I'm giving a talk, Facing the Oncoming Storm, on Sunday (Feb 15th) at #Haltwhistle Hospital Community Room. I'll be urging people to build resilient communities to not just survive but thrive in these precarious times. Free and open to all.

#Northumberland

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Reader: do you understand? Are you seeing it yet?
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.

“ More in line with degrowth”:
Hahahahaha.

Byeeeeeeee.

( Obvs. )

My home country.

“The first duty of Govt is to protect its citizens”

#TellTheTruth

Across the UK in communities, workplaces and wherever they have power, people from all walks of life are organising the kinds of serious climate action that will make governments take notice. The… Your tallest buildings show what you value most: Finance capital is killing us | Rupert Read

Watch: You can tell a lot about what a culture values by its large buildings. Are they cathedrals? Palaces? Universities? Temples? Hospitals? Or are they shrines to consumerism and finance?

Check out my latest #YouTube short for more.

youtube.com/shorts/Ibcxo...

I’m on a mini-speaker tour of the North, 5 gigs in 6 days, criss-crossing grand county,talking about strategic climate adaptation & buildings #thrutopia. The percentage of the countryside literally under water is extraordinary. It feels like the end of the beginning:will we lean into getting #Safer?

Across the UK in communities, workplaces and wherever they have power, people from all walks of life are organising the kinds of serious climate action that will make governments take notice. The… Your tallest buildings show what you value most: Finance capital is killing us | Rupert Read

Watch: You can tell a lot about what a culture values by its large buildings. Are they cathedrals? Palaces? Universities? Temples? Hospitals? Or are they shrines to consumerism and finance?

Check out my latest #YouTube short for more.

youtube.com/shorts/Ibcxo...

Hexham Debates — Live Zoom Debate

Saturday 14 Feb 2026 | 11:00 AM GMT
🎙 Liam Kavanagh (Climate Majority Project)
For anyone who suspects they’re living in a failing system — and wants to talk about it.
🔗 Join free: us06web.zoom.us/j/85736689052

@hexhamtv.bsky.social #ClimateAction

The Food Programme - The Future of Our Food - BBC Sounds The UK's biggest producers and retailers outline visions on food, health and resilience.

The BBC is finally lumbering into action. This programme ‘gets it’ on a crucial point: ‘Sustainability’ isn’t necessarily in retreat, provided we understand adaptation/resilience as its new form!

Listen now.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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Really good programme.

We need this on the TV too.

Reader: do you understand? Are you seeing it yet?
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.

Reader: do you understand? Are you seeing it yet?
Israel is continuing the Nakba: >across< Palestine, not just in Gaza.
They want it ‘swept clean’. This is the resumption of #OperationMatateh: (Look it up.)
The long term goal?: the annexing of it all.

The Food Programme - The Future of Our Food - BBC Sounds The UK's biggest producers and retailers outline visions on food, health and resilience.

The BBC is finally lumbering into action. This programme ‘gets it’ on a crucial point: ‘Sustainability’ isn’t necessarily in retreat, provided we understand adaptation/resilience as its new form!

Listen now.

www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Events Programme 2026 Glenthorne Guest House and Conference Centre

Still not too late to book for the short course I'm running with Leena Seward in the #LakeDistrict, starting on FRIDAY (13th-15th). We'll be focusing on deep, transformative and spiritual adaptation. Full details 👇

glenthorne.org/events-progr...

Tomorrow 👇

LinkedIn Pulse

"...many of us are longing for something deeper: authenticity, connection, meaning. We want to be moved - to hope credibly, to act meaningfully, to care consequentially."

Check out my joint #LinkedIn post with Jess Carter on why the arts matter now more than ever.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/campai...

Last week @climatemajority.bsky.social & Climate Courage Schools released The Hardest Lesson, a video of a teacher covering the #ClimateEmergency in class. It's a hard, but necessary watch. @thierryaaron.bsky.social's article explains the uncomfortable truth on why #ClimateInEducation is now vital 👇🏽

LinkedIn Pulse

"...many of us are longing for something deeper: authenticity, connection, meaning. We want to be moved - to hope credibly, to act meaningfully, to care consequentially."

Check out my joint #LinkedIn post with Jess Carter on why the arts matter now more than ever.

www.linkedin.com/pulse/campai...

Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (“SAFER”) with Rupert Read, Thursday 12th February 2026 (6.30pm for 7pm start) — Poesis We are deep into the danger zone and about to go much deeper. The meta-crisis - of which the climate crisis is merely the leading edge - is already upon us. It will increasingly define the rest of…

If you're in or around #York on Thursday (12th), come and hear more about our Climate Majority Project campaign, Strategic Adaptation For Emergency Resilience (#SAFER).

Full details, including how to book 👇

poesis.org.uk/store/p/stra...

Events Programme 2026 Glenthorne Guest House and Conference Centre

Still not too late to book for the short course I'm running with Leena Seward in the #LakeDistrict, starting on FRIDAY (13th-15th). We'll be focusing on deep, transformative and spiritual adaptation. Full details 👇

glenthorne.org/events-progr...

As I’ve been saying / writing for years: the future of British politics IS Greens vs Reform…

As I’ve been saying / writing for years: the future of British politics IS Greens vs Reform.

Watching something is now "resistance" in America?

A distortion/absure of language Orwell warned of

If you are in #London tomorrow night (10th Feb), pop along to our next CMPints 🍺 This informal get-together takes place at the Three Johns Pub in #Islington.

Grab a free ticket: www.tickettailor.com/events/clima...

Registration is now open for the Sustainable Communities Conference, hosted by @adrianramsay.bsky.social, on March 13th in #Diss. The event focuses on two key themes: #nature recovery and community energy. I'm looking forward to contributing. Details 👇

www.eventbrite.com/e/sustainabl...

"Collapse is no longer a distant possibility. A terrifying government report, forced into the light..by Freedom of Information requests, makes this clear.. Yet this is not only a political emergency. It’s a spiritual one: a crisis of meaning..of what we are willing – or unwilling – to face together"

Resilience required: Rupert Read’s Thought for the Week | The Friend ‘Adaptation is no longer optional.’| The Friend

"A spirituality that retreats into abstraction or private reassurance turns away from our embodied condition."

My piece is featured as a 'thought for the week' in latest edition of The Friend. Read now.

thefriend.org/article/resi...