ReWilding our Water: From Rain to River to Sewer and back with Tim Smedley, author of The Last Drop How close are we to the edge of Zero Day when no water comes out of the taps? Scarily close. But Tim Smedley has a whole host of ways we can restore our water cycles.

How close are we to the edge of Zero Day when no water comes out of the taps?

Scarily close.

But @timsmedley.bsky.social has a whole host of ways we can restore our water cycles

Clean rivers, oceans, rains.

What's not to like?

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Otterly Amazing! Common Sense Farming can feed us all with Charlie Bennett “In a world where our wildlife is becoming extinct at a frightening rate, we are setting up an oasis where animals, wild flowers and even ancient fungi can thrive.” Our guest this week, Charlie Bennet...

'In a world where our wildlife is becoming extinct at a frightening rate, we are setting up an oasis where animals, wild flowers, even ancient fungi can thrive.'

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#RegenerativeAgriculture
#Farming
#Food
#Regeneration

Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create...

How can we re-forge our communities so they thrive?

The @riverdonproject.bsky.social in #Sheffield is #Bioregionalism in action: #AI & digital mapping to curate care for the river

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England’s swimming waters five times more likely to be polluted than in EU, research finds Experts warn country is in danger of becoming ‘dirty man of Europe’ as it falls to bottom of bathing water leaderboard

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This is a fascinating podcast - but I wish to goodness *someone* from @yourpartyuk.bsky.social or @compassoffice.bsky.social would read Any Human Power.

Yes, it's my novel, but *I wrote the detail of how to work out the admin of a movement at scale*

Happy to send a pdf if anyone's interested

A graphic to promote the 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture, advertising that it will feature Clive Lewis MP and is supported by Compass, LCER, and SERA. The date and time of the lecture, Thursday 18th September at 6.30pm, is also noted.

Compass was built on the shoulders of giants, one of them being the late, great Robin Cook.

Join us on 18th September for the 2025 Robin Cook Memorial Lecture, as we mark 20 years since Robin's death and revisit the significance of his politics today.

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thank you - let me know how it lands...

You are definitely Fan of the Week - thank you!

Yep - really very exciting...

Sit with the River, Breathe Sacred Smoke, Love with the World: Building a Bioregional world with Joe Brewer How can Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation? Joe Brewer is living, breathing and teaching the ways we can work together with each other and the natural flows o...

How can #Bioregionalism supplant the nation state as the natural unit of civilisation?

How do we dream with, live with, love with the earth as our teacher?

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of the Design School for #Regenerating #Earth

Met police arrest more than 150 people at Palestine Action protest in London Other UK forces form ‘significant presence’ in largest protest since group was proscribed as terrorist organisation

Met police arrest more than 150 people at Palestine Action protest in London www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Yup.

"That's where we're at: Pete Hegseth quote-tweeting a video, approvingly, about a pastor whose whose church he attends, talking about Christian nationalism...talking about how women shouldn't have the right to vote." @timmiller.bsky.social breaks it down:

also notable that these are phrases Curtis Yarvin created to describe his worldview, times adopting those is troubling.

The FBI As We Knew It is Gone It took a hundred years to create the Bureau as we knew it. And it took one dinner at the White House to destroy it.

I know we have seen a lot of agencies being hobbled and dismantled over the last six months. But the coup happening at the FBI should worry you the most asharangappa.substack.com/p/the-fbi-as...

We have gone so far past the norms I am agreeing with Sarah fuckin Palin now? Jesus

Defendants have conferred with Plaintiffs, who take no position on this motion. Plaintiffs 2 requested that Defendants include the following statement of Plaintiffs in this filing: Plaintiffs did 3 not affirmatively seek a broadcast and so do not take a position on Defendants' motion and defer 4 to the Court's discretion. We note that this is an exceptionally high-profile case of great interest 5 to the public, which ordinarily weighs in favor of allowing public remote access, and that 6 Defendants' motion is untimely as the Court provided notice more than two weeks ago of the 7 planned broadcast and the witnesses being called at trial are not unexpected. Plaintiffs are not in 8 a position to evaluate the assertion of risks faced by the witnesses because those threats are not 9 detailed in the motion. But Plaintiffs note that because the courtroom will be open and the 10 11 12 witnesses' names and words will be reported by media, any risk could come only from their images being broadcast publicly, and the Court could address any such risk by not showing the witnesses on camera, so that they would be heard but not seen on the broadcast.

Plaintiffs note that the courtroom is going to be open to reporters anyhow—and that this is an "exceptionally high-profile case" of great public interest—but that if Judge Breyer wants to take DOJ's objections seriously, he could just not point cameras at the witness stand

Pursuant to Northern District of California Local Civil Rules 7-11 and 77-3, Defendants respectfully object to permitting remote public access during the trial proceedings. Local Rule 77- 3(b)(1) permits a court to prohibit remote public access "where doing so would risk interfering with the integrity of the proceedings." "This includes, but is not limited to, situations where remote public access would risk infringing on privacy interests, creating safety concerns, or materially affecting witness testimony." Id. Those conditions are present here. Yesterday, the parties exchanged final witness lists. The parties expect the Court will hear testimony from the three individuals who have given deposition testimony, which includes two Department of Defense officials and one official from the Department of Homeland Security Immigration and Customs Enforcement's Enforcement and Removal Operations. It is undisputed that agitators have used social media and the Internet to coordinate attacks against DHS ICE ERO personnel. See, e.g., DHS Announces ICE Law Enforcement are Now Facing an 830 Percent Increase in Assaults, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, https://www.dhs.gov/news/2025/07/15/dhs-announces-ice-law-enforcement-are-now- facing-830-percent-increase-assaults (July 15, 2015); ECF No. 84-1 (June 18 Santacruz Declaration) at I 6 (discussing the violence against National Guard members and law enforcement). And doxxing-the posting of private or identifying information about a particular individual online with malicious intent—has been another significant safety concern. See, e.g., ECF No. 22-1 (June 11 Santacruz Declaration) at I 33 (discussing the "significant instances of demonstrators posting the location, images, and family information of federal law enforcement employees online in an attempt to dox, threaten and obstruct"). Providing remote public access to the trial creates safety concerns for the witnesses and attorneys appearing at trial. At a minimum, Defendants res…

NEW: DOJ asks Judge Breyer to close next week's trial on the Trump admin's possible violations of the Posse Comitatus Act to remote public access, arguing that it endangers DoD/DHS/ICE officials to let the public see who they are. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.

At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.

Dancing the Path of the Inner Warrior with Diarmuid Lyng of Wild Irish Retreats How can we find a way through the obfuscations and extractive values and downright lies of predatory capitalism.  Through to authenticity, and integrity and finding language for how we can be who we r...

We’re on the edge of a cliff and the way out is through the obfuscations & extractive values of predatory #capitalism to authenticity, integrity and finding language for what our #souls yearn to be.

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People's Charter for People Power - with Katy Rubin and Oli Whittington of Our House When people have experienced ways to bring Power to those with Wisdom and Wisdom to those with Power, then they’ll work together to make it a reality at a larger scale.

Our 'democracy' is not fit for purpose—IF that purpose is the continuation of complex life on earth.

We need a new House of the People to accrue power to those with wisdom and enact governance of, for and by the people and the planet.

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A flyer that reads "Imagining Possible Futures Seattle" and below "Saturday September 6 1pm-3pm, Pipsqueak Gallery, 173 16th Ave, Seattle WA 98122". It is teal with a stylized background of the Seattle skyline.

Fun announcement: I'll be running a Possible Futures workshop in-person in Seattle in a month! Details are in the event link.

Space is VERY limited so go snag a seat now (they're free)! I would love to meet y'all and make art with you :)

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From Darkness to Radiance: Lights On Learning with Julia Black How do we help our young people (and ourselves) ’switch on’ the light of learning - so that we all once again fall in love with living? Julia Black of Lights on Learning has a route to exactly this.

How do we help our young people ( and ourselves) ’switch on’ the light of learning—so that we all once again fall in love with living?

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Thank you!

From Darkness to Radiance: Lights On Learning with Julia Black How do we help our young people (and ourselves) ’switch on’ the light of learning - so that we all once again fall in love with living? Julia Black of Lights on Learning has a route to exactly this.

How do we help our young people ( and ourselves) ’switch on’ the light of learning—so that we all once again fall in love with living?

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#RegenerativeLearning
#Education
#RegenerativeTeaching

Well, this is rather lovely

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Blue Whales Are Going Silent Inside the acoustic warning signs of a changing ocean

This is heartbreaking

"...across one of the loudest landscapes in nature, the world’s biggest mammals have stopped making noise.
A blue whale that has no energy to sing is not just tired. It is in trouble. So is the ecosystem around it."

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Be like Water: Becoming Nature Again with the River Dôn Project and Jonny Douglas Clean Water is part of our heritage and a basic Right of being alive. We should be able to drink from our river, swim in our seas. This week we explore the River Dôn Project which is working to create...

How can we re-forge our communities so they thrive?

The @riverdonproject.bsky.social in #Sheffield is #Bioregionalism in action: #AI & digital mapping to curate care for the river

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#AccidentalGods #Podcast w @jonnydouglas.bsky.social of
@weareopus.bsky.social

Another pardon on the way?