AI ethics debates often sound polarised because people talk at different levels. I find it useful to distinguish three: the conditions shaping AI, organisations introducing it, & everyday practices where judgement, participation and responsibility sit.🧪 learningforsustainability.net/post/ethical...

Ethics around AI use

An exploration of the wider ethical picture of AI, acknowledging both structural conditions and practice-level tensions.

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Involving everyone in everything isn’t inclusion. It’s exhaustion. Good multi-actor engagement is clear about who needs to be involved in which decisions, when and with what influence, while helping others stay informed and join in when it matters. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/post/good-en...

Not everyone needs to be in every meeting

A post on why good engagement does not mean involving everyone in everything, and how varied participation supports trust, influence and accountability.

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French President Emmanuel Macron said France was "facing a completely unprecedented fire," describing the situation as France's worst fire-related crisis since World War II. n.pr/4bjlRNn

With wildfires raging in France and Spain, fire crews race against next heat wave

French President Emmanuel Macron said France was "facing a completely unprecedented fire," describing the situation as France's worst fire-related crisis since World War II.

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Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Nature reports how some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications. 🌎🧪

Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world

Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.

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AI can now produce much of the visible record of participation: transcripts, themes, summaries and reports. But that record cannot show whether people shaped the framing, interpretation or judgement behind it. 🧪 More in the full post: learningforsustainability.net/post/ai-and-...

AI can produce the record of participation without the participation

AI can produce the record of participation without preserving the collaborative work behind it. What this means for engagement, evaluation and AI policy.

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A long-term collaborative process can look tidy on paper, then drift if the work around it is not connected. New post on a wider runsheet for distributed collaborative planning. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/post/distrib...

A runsheet for distributed collaborative planning

Practical ideas for designing a process for place-based and multi-actor initiatives, connecting learning, engagement, governance and implementation.

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Involving everyone in everything isn’t inclusion. It’s exhaustion. Good multi-actor engagement is clear about who needs to be involved in which decisions, when and with what influence, while helping others stay informed and join in when it matters. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/post/good-en...

Not everyone needs to be in every meeting

A post on why good engagement does not mean involving everyone in everything, and how varied participation supports trust, influence and accountability.

learningforsustainability.net

Practice change isn’t just about individual behaviour – it’s how teams and orgs learn, adapt and shift routines over time. I’ve refreshed the practice change resources page with social practice theory and implementation support practitioner links. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/practice-cha...

Practice change

Resources and research on practice change in complex settings, including organisational learning, and approaches to change.

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Ridge in Fog - Te Mata Peak, Hawke's Bay, NZ. The fog was thick enough that morning to swallow the valley entirely, but the ridge held its shape above it, catching the first warm light before anything below had a chance to. #photography #landscape #nz

A long-term collaborative process can look tidy on paper, then drift if the work around it is not connected. New post on a wider runsheet for distributed collaborative planning. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/post/distrib...

Bare Essentials - Hawke's Bay, NZ. #photography #landscape #nz #minimalism

The first AI-assisted draft is not just a draft. It can become the frame a group starts from. AI can turn scattered material into something to discuss. But that first synthesis can shape what a group notices, asks and treats as ready to work from. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/post/ai-firs...

AI and the authority of the first synthesis

AI-assisted drafts can help groups think together, but early syntheses still need to stay open to collective judgement.

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Long-term, place-based initiatives rarely fit neatly within programme cycles. I’ve pulled together a synthesis on evaluation, design and facilitation as continuity work: helping people and organisations learn, remember and adapt across transitions. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/evaluation-d...

Evaluation, design and continuity in long-term collaborative work

A reflective overview of how evaluation, systemic design and facilitation work together to sustain long-term, multi-actor collaborations.

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Reflective practice often gets flattened to "thinking about your work". In complex settings it's more deliberate than that – noticing what you're assuming, and adjusting as you go. Some resources and reflections I've gathered: learningforsustainability.net/reflective-p...

Reflective and reflexive practice

An introduction to these practices and how they support professional learning, sustainability, and complex systems work.

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I keep a curated set of Theory of Change resources and guidance here, built up over years of practice. Frameworks, examples, and guidance on diagramming and using one well: learningforsustainability.net/toc-resources/

Theory of Change resources and guidance

Curated and annotated links to open-access Theory of Change guides, papers and examples, including work on assumptions, contribution analysis, logic models, sustainability science and learning.

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A theory of change isn't a diagram you make once and file away. It's a shared, revisable account of how change might happen, and why. The value is less in the artefact than in the conversations it forces – about assumptions, and about what you'd need to be true.

The Global Justice Report offers one possible picture of a fairer and more sustainable future. A useful question is not only whether that future will arrive exactly as written, but what it helps us ask now. One future can still invite many pathways. learningforsustainability.net/post/one-fut...

One future - many pathways

How ambitious futures such as the Global Justice Report can help us move beyond blueprint thinking and explore many pathways for change.

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Long-term, place-based initiatives rarely fit neatly within programme cycles. I’ve pulled together a synthesis on evaluation, design and facilitation as continuity work: helping people and organisations learn, remember and adapt across transitions. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/evaluation-d...

Evaluation, design and continuity in long-term collaborative work

A reflective overview of how evaluation, systemic design and facilitation work together to sustain long-term, multi-actor collaborations.

learningforsustainability.net

The Global Justice Report offers one possible picture of a fairer and more sustainable future. A useful question is not only whether that future will arrive exactly as written, but what it helps us ask now. One future can still invite many pathways. learningforsustainability.net/one-future-m...

Indicators are often treated as technical measures. In complex, place-based work, their value depends on how they support shared interpretation, learning and action. I’ve shared the guide here: learningforsustainability.net/effective-in...

Effective indicators for place-based initiatives

A practical guide to developing and using indicators in place-based, multi-actor settings, supporting shared understanding, reflection, and decision-making.

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Indicators are often treated as technical measures. In complex, place-based work, their value depends on how they support shared interpretation, learning and action. I’ve shared the guide here: learningforsustainability.net/effective-in...

Effective indicators for place-based initiatives

A practical guide to developing and using indicators in place-based, multi-actor settings, supporting shared understanding, reflection, and decision-making.

learningforsustainability.net

Long-term, place-based initiatives rarely fit neatly within programme cycles. I’ve pulled together a synthesis on evaluation, design and facilitation as continuity work: helping people and organisations learn, remember and adapt across transitions. 🧪 learningforsustainability.net/evaluation-d...

Evaluation, design and continuity in long-term collaborative work

A reflective overview of how evaluation, systemic design and facilitation work together to sustain long-term, multi-actor collaborations.

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Most people working with indicators didn't choose them. They inherited sets designed for reporting. What makes them useful isn't the indicators themselves – it's whether teams create space to interpret results together and connect them to decisions. 🧪🌍️

Effective indicators for place-based initiatives

A practical guide to developing and using indicators in place-based, multi-actor settings, supporting shared understanding, reflection, and decision-making.

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We are delighted to announce the next installment of our #CommunityConversations webinar series 🌎💬 In this FREE event, journal editors Sean Tomlinson & Jeff Clements @biolumijeffence.bsky.social discuss how to get the most out of the #PeerReview process. Info here ➡️ tinyurl.com/4r9hnjju #ECR

Getting indicators right is less about metrics, more about use. A downloadable guide to connecting indicators to real decisions and ongoing learning, grounded in dialogue, trade-offs, and adaptation, with a simple, practical process for use in place-based, multi-actor work.

Effective indicators for place-based initiatives

A practical guide to developing and using indicators in place-based, multi-actor settings, supporting shared understanding, reflection, and decision-making.

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Preprint currently in review Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es...

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2025: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. We track twelve key sets of indicators of the state of the climate system, clos...

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Taking a break from the ice today. Autumn is doing its thing in Hawke's Bay — mist in the hollows, gold on the hills, and two trees catching the first light of the day. Glad to be home. #photography #landscape #nz Early Gift — Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

I’ve just put together a guide on developing and using indicators in place-based, multi-actor settings. It sets out a simple, practical process to help teams connect indicators with real decisions and ongoing learning. 🌍🧪 Interested in how this resonates with others working in this space.

Effective indicators for place-based initiatives

A practical guide to developing and using indicators in place-based, multi-actor settings, supporting shared understanding, reflection, and decision-making.

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Today's post: Fire, wind, and lies: How we talk about wildfire shapes how we respond – Making Science Public share.google/CAsijh1DBgvk...

Fire, wind, and lies: How we talk about wildfire shapes how we respond

Rusi Jaspal and I recently published an article on the metaphorical framing of the January 2025 Southern California wildfires. Here is a short blog post about it to whet your appetite for the real …

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I don't think I'll ever get tired of this view, Isle of Skye