Martin Brown

Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law Rest of UK has resisted calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds

Great news …
Swift bricks to be installed on all new buildings in Scotland as MSPs back law!

Meanwhile
Rest of UK resists calls to make builders install bricks that provide nesting for swifts and other endangered birds

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Findhorn Watershed Initiative

"cultural memory embedded in place names, song & story
holds valuable knowledge about the land and its former richness. Names encode details about flora
and fauna, landforms, traditional land uses, settlement patterns, local stories and beliefs"
Gaelic Placenames & Ecological Significance.

Companion to the Wild Yeast Regenerative lessons in the aliveness of sourdough

Companion to the Wild Yeast
Regenerative lessons in the aliveness of sourdough.

"We cannot force regeneration ... we can only create and enable the conditions"

Regen/Notes #NatureWriting #Regenerative

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Country diary: Bursts of white in the winter murk | Kate Blincoe Caistor St Edmund, Norfolk: As chief clothes-washer in our home, I see egrets and snowdrops and wonder how anything living in the marsh or riverbank can stay so clean

"A clump of snowdrops in the woodland gives me that spring dopamine hit" Bursts of white in the winter murk...
Kate Blincoe #NatureWriting in todays County Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...

As the Earth
turns toward dusk,
Give it time,
the sky will change,

Sunset, Inglewhite, Lancashire.
#naturewriting

Twilight.
Shadow flight on River Chew catches eye,
and there,
electric blue-green, Iridescent.
Kingfisher.
A spell.
A brief enchantment,
Lingering long after blue streak moves on downstream.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 09/01

Wintering regenerative Symbiogenesis, Living Buildings, Interconnects,

Earth-aligning living buildings,
not a style,
but ethical, ecological thresholds,
enabling,
inviting us …

to feel, to dance,
to connect,
to live,
with, within,
living systems.

💚 #livingbuildings #dailynature #naturewriting

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Thank you for organising hosting and sharing Jen 🙏

Also featuring the magnificent contributors whom give you their words:

@noswpod.bsky.social @charlie-alice-raya.org @petergknight.bsky.social @kerdraon-hascoet.bsky.social @mixaeljones.bsky.social @martinbr.bsky.social

I hope to see you all in March to celebrate Imbolc and HappyNewYear!

#Nature

January 6. Calendar date, human construct, not necessarily linked to shifts in light, temps, plant behaviour, animal activity. Our bodies respond to angle of light, how cold, how long darkness lasts, when sap starts moving, when birds change patterns …
💚 #wellbeing #noticingnature #naturewriting

#WildFlowerHour
January.
Midwinters Primrose,
No urgency,
With enough light,
enough water,
enough leaf nourishment,
enough beauty.
Nearby,
snowdrop shoots await

#NewYearPlantHunt

When your journey through the landscape writes its own poems...

‘The new year isn’t a blank page but an invitation to continue December’s #Symbiogenesis reflections, as the conscious intent to participate in life’s weaving of separate entities into something entirely new and wonderful’

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#NatureWriting

Bowland wildness hike, rock formations, vast perspectives, evocative place names …

Pike Side to Cat Knott Well onto Brennand Grit of Knotteranun and Bowland Knotts,
Raven’s Castle via Copy Nook, Cold Stone,
Crowd Stones to Cross of Greet.
Hodder.

💚 #place #dailynature #naturewriting 01/01

Between the old and the new, there is only this breath.
Under same stars, a new chapter begins.
Present, peaceful and grounded.

Happy New Year.

Mindful New Year reflections (back garden sky image 29/12)

#dailynature #naturewriting

Day 31: And Breathe. At this threshold of calendar years, consider what symbioses we can tend in the seasons ahead, not only as projects to complete but as living system relationships to deepen.

💚 #dailynature #naturewriting

Our Symbiogenesis calendar continues asking

Day 30: Where is the humility to acknowledge we’re designing with incomplete knowledge, intervening in living systems far more complex than we can fully comprehend?

How can we embrace unknowing to thrive as nature?

#dailynature #naturewriting

Mycelium and Masonry: December Reflections on Regenerative Design 31 Day Calendar Prompts for Living Buildings

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And so the Symbiogenesis calendar arrives at day 28/31 asking:

“Does this participate in life’s thriving, does it merely coexist with it, or continue with entangled harm?”

Embracing thriving is liminal, messy, fungal, rhythmic, overgrows & inconvenient to spreadsheets

#dailynature #naturewriting

Above the Cringle Ash, the pre dawn sky is laced with Yule ribbon.
Ash, storied, in tale & layer, trunk links myths and realms, roots down deep to dark underworlds, canopy reaches up to weather, bird law and star listening.

💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #inglewhite 24/12

Humans are not simply consumers,
We are Makers, We are Poets.

Satish Kumar, Love Economy, a beautiful slow read in latest Resurgence & Ecology

#dailynature #naturewriting

Winter Solstice : Earth Renewed Words spoken by Morwenna at Bleasdale Circle

Winter Solstice: Earth Renewed

Hush.
This is the place,
where endings loosen.
They spiral but do not break.
These hinge time words, not gifts, are for carrying,

The sun has turned.
It turns whether we speak,
or not.

#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
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Conscious Design for Life

Day 21: The winter solstice invites us to pause. What changes when your design intention shifts from imposing engineered order to cultivating biodiversity and tending relationships?”

#livingbuildingsdaily #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 21/12

Day 20/31: What if microbial literacy, teaching about beneficial bacteria, became standard curriculum?

How would this transform our approach to creating healthy school environments?

Shifting our understanding of nature connectedness

#livingbuildingsdaily #dailynature #naturewriting

Early morning, hints of lightening sky to SE, Jupiter, Vega, Capella all bright, fading Pleiades sisters set on dark NW horizon. The still not-quite-frost morning sky then scratched by the super bright ISS orbiting crawl eastwards
#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 20/12

Connecting with the unseen microbial nature world, beyond letting nature in to living with nature …
Day 19: Imagine redefining ‘clean’ as a healthy balanced microbial ecosystem rather than a sterile environment.

💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting #livingbuildingsdaily 19/12

'breaking open regenerative and biophilia from the inside' 31 Day Calendar Prompts for Living Buildings

'breaking open regenerative and biophilia from the inside'

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… yet even ‘new’ words will not be the word, but seeds that grow as a living lexicon, that like the ecology it seeks to describe, emerges, grows, breathes, lives
Spirals, not linear, tidy or tightly defined but messy with liminal edges that morph & bleed into each other #dailynature #naturewriting

Maybe the question is what micro-nature life we invite in. Microbes responding with how we pause, rush, repair, breathe, plan, live. Different commons, unseen players, shaping atmospheres that teach us, we are still learning in design for life.

#noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting