Bridget McKenzie
@bridgetmck.bsky.social
Engaging public in the #EarthCrisis with #Arts #Heritage #Museums Founded Climate Museum UK, Culture Declares & Flow Associates. http://bridgetmckenzie.uk/ Mailing list https://bridget-mckenzie.kit.com/cbde1db065
One of the features of the Earth Talk Community is a podcast, of interviews with people who work in public settings for eco-social change. This interview is with Sean Irving, who researches community-based economic strategies for long-term systemic change, with a focus on Cooperation Hull.
Eco/climate/creative folks! I would so recommend joining this community. As well as connecting with others engaged in creative work in response to the Earth crisis, there is access to many excellent resources developed by @bridgetmck.bsky.social This is needed now more than ever. Do join us!
Bridget McKenzie@bridgetmck.bsky.social · 2w agoAre you starting to have more environmental chats but finding them a struggle? Do you want to include the Earth Crisis in how you engage with people & do your work? Want more creative & effective methods? I've worked really hard for 4 years to create the Earth Talk community of practice.
Are you starting to have more environmental chats but finding them a struggle? Do you want to include the Earth Crisis in how you engage with people & do your work? Want more creative & effective methods? I've worked really hard for 4 years to create the Earth Talk community of practice.
Now that all the parks & lawns are yellow and dusty, can we at last fall out of love with flat-mown grass? Can we have more meadowy, weedy, bushy, water-absorbing & drought-resistant parks and gardens please?
I just published An Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector medium.com/p/an-effecti...
An Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector
This is the summary of my thinkpiece from March 2026. I’m sharing it again because there’s a lot of chatter about cultural climate…
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🇷🇺 ‘Reform uk’ is a Ltd company, directed and funded from Russia (via tens of millions in Cryptocurrency) 🇷🇺 ‘Reform uk’ (formerly the brexit Party) was created for the purposes of destabilizing governance and society within the uk, as part of Putin’s hybrid war on western countries 🏴🇪🇺😎
1/ For those of us keeping an eye on systemic #climate risks, these aren’t difficult dots to connect. I find it downright frightening. We need to brace for impacts and spring into preparedness now. This thread outlines 6 key papers and what we can do in response. ⬇️🧵
In 2020, the scientist John Abraham observed that the amount of heat being added to the oceans was equivalent to about five Hiroshima bombs of energy every second. Last year, the WMO figures suggest, it was closer to 11 Hiroshima explosions per second. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What are zettajoules – and what do they tell us about Earth’s energy imbalance?
When James Prescott Joule lent his name to a unit of energy, he could not have foreseen today’s alarming calculations
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At @chathamhouse.org #CHClimateEnergy @elpinchbeck.bsky.social just trailed that the @thecccuk.bsky.social is poised to drop a major adaptation report in a few weeks - “headed to printers”. Reminder that UK govt has failed to make real progress on any adaptation & resilience front.
AOC: This is about actual crimes happening in front of us. This is about shredding the Constitution and plunging us into war. This is about taking crypto money and money laundering… So if you’re asking me if I’d support impeachment, I do
Here's a finished version of my report 'Growing an Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector' tinyurl.com/jchhsnbp and a summary is in the posts below...
Growing an Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector
Growing an Effective Earth Crisis Response in the Cultural Sector March 2026 Bridget McKenzie Illustration from my artist book Water Falls, Springs Rise (in Fluid Earth exhibition at GroundWork Gal...
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I keep seeing people diminish Epstein, like “we’re focusing on a single sex offender but it’s a distraction.” He trafficked 1000+, ran a kompromat factory likely trading to Israel & Russia. It’s a lens onto a conspiracy of extreme colonisation of bodies & lands with devastating impacts on all life.
People get hung up (reasonably) on the "walkable" cities frame because many people cannot walk or have problems walking I propose: human scale cities as in: a city where the spaces I am in are built for human bodies, and not two ton high speed murder machines
⚠️🐦 Nature loss is risk to our security and prosperity, and a new government report has confirmed it. Published after a Green Alliance FOI request, the report must now prompt action. As @ruthchambers.bsky.social sets out below, the government and parliament must urgently address its findings.
Nature loss is risk to UK security and prosperity | Ruth Chambers
YouTube video by GreenAllianceUK
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A friend pointed me to a post on social media of a letter by Kerry McCarthy MP (Labour, Bristol East) about a request for a televised emergency briefing on the #ClimateEmergency I was stunned by how casually the idea & its urgency were dismissed. Let’s unpack why this response is so wrong-headed 🧵
I was a White House ethics lawyer. I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules. I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.
Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 7mo agoForeign countries are bribing our president to sell out the American people. Trump family businesses made $187 MILLION from this deal, and just months later he gave the UAE some of our most top-secret AI tech. They are selling our national security to the highest bidder.
Pleased to join @rupertread.bsky.social @bridgetmck.bsky.social @npjbrooks.bsky.social calling for an international protectorate for #Greenland to address defence and climate risks; and to restart international cooperation in the Guardian today 👇👇
Rupert Read@rupertread.bsky.social · 7mo agoRead my letter in @theguardian.com to encourage an international protectorate over Greenland: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j... It has significance for all of us as polar ice continues to melt at an alarming rate due to accelerating climate change. #greenland
A prose-poem & collage exploring links in time & space, between Nazi propaganda, underwater photography & coral reef bleaching, to understand representation, complicity in and denial of great harms. bridgetmck.medium.com/black-white-...
Black & White, and the Colour of Coral
Links in time and space, between Nazi propaganda, underwater photography and coral reef bleaching, as a way to understand representation…
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Oh, pleassseee! What could possibly go wrong if you were sailing nuclear reactors around increasingly stormy, little regulated, politically unstable seas? Has anyone thought about pirates? 🤦 #NoNewNuclear www.thetimes.com/business/com...
Britain is planning nuclear-powered ships. Will they be safe?
Inside the plan to build merchant ships powered by a new generation of atomic reactors
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“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪 IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
The world’s 500 richest people have total wealth of $11.9tn. Their wealth up by $2.2tn in 2025. 8 billionaires accounting for a 25% of the gains. No one becomes this rich by working. They fund right-wing parties, oppose worker/human rights, cause more pollution than normal people.
Billionaires added record $2.2tn in wealth in 2025
Just eight billionaires accounted for a quarter of the gains, led by Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Larry Ellison and Larry Page
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Mark Zuckerberg settles $8bn lawsuit to avoid testifying under oath over Cambridge Analytica and walks away without public accountability This is surveillance capitalism in action: law-breaking treated as cost of doing business, executives shielded, power untouched. www.france24.com/en/americas/...
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
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The Green party is becoming known for hope, for climate justice, for people and planet. But we haven't lost sight of the emergency, the Green surge is a surge to tackle the most important issues, to make sure that we get a government for the real world, not for billionaires' fantasies. It matters
The Green Party of England & Wales@greenparty.org.uk · 8mo ago2025 is set to be the UK's hottest since records began. Scientists are clear that changes to our climate are unprecedented and the result of burning fossil fuels. The government's climate policies must be led by the science, not by climate deniers and their friends from the fossil-fuel lobby.
The Hodge review for Arts Council England is welcomed. But there’s a problem in the section on tackling the funding crisis. “ACE also has an important role to play in ensuring that prevailing attitudes & practices in arts orgs do not discourage corporations & individuals from donating to the arts…
My film Fires and Fascism at Norwich (Cinema City) on Wed 19 Nov with a great panel to discuss the far right afterwards: @rupertread.bsky.social @helenb92.bsky.social @bridgetmck.bsky.social Get your tickets from Picturehouse: www.picturehouses.com/movie-detail... Trailer: fires-and-fascism.co.uk
Thank you @raechelkelly.bsky.social and it was also great to learn from your empathetic and observant ways, as with the exemplary @lornaprescott.bsky.social and Jo Orchard-Webb
Raechel Kelly@raechelkelly.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis was such a joy to be part of, with thanks to @lornaprescott.bsky.social Jo Orchard Webb and everyone at Co Lab Dudley, especially the Dudley People’s School of Climate Justice crew! And especially @bridgetmck.bsky.social ‘s insight and ways of drawing connections 🌍 ❤️ 🌱
I’ve been exploring this question: What is the state of capacities in the UK Cultural sector for an alert, full-spectrum and effective response to the Earth Crisis? And some related questions:
Wild About Essex will refresh Colchester’s Natural History Museum. What would make the space feel more accessible and relevant to you? Tell us here: buff.ly/uS4spfx #WildAboutEssex #HaveYourSay
