Martin Brown
@martinbr.bsky.social
Traveller on a regenerative journey. Sharing Stories, Nature Writing & Watercolour Host @ Zoom Regenerative Writer: @ Regen/Notes + Author: FutuREstorative + Place: Forest of Bowland More at https://fairsnape.substack.com/ https://linktr.ee/martin_brown
2 stacks. 28 extraordinary books. 1 shared purpose: to help us better understand the world around us. From explorations of changing climate to stories of wildlife, landscapes & people, this year's #WainwrightPrize longlists celebrate the very best in environmental storytelling. wainwrightprize.com
Morning. From this place wet with rain, Crows gathering beyond the cross, Chattering life high in the Ash, Rowan Birch Beech sensing autumn, Waiting, apples & pears in orchard 31/7 #DailyNature #NatureWriting
We have forgotten how to read the living world. How to understand soil, seeds, fungi, bodies, communities and economies as part of one interdependent web. These eight thinkers offer a way back. re-generation.cc/en/longread/... #NatureWriting
The new eco-literacy: 8 thinkers on how to read the living world again
After speaking with some of the most inspiring ecological thinkers of our time, the ecological crisis comes into focus as a crisis of literacy. From Vandana Shiva to Jeremy Lent: these 8 people offer ...
re-generation.cc
Reading 'England's 30by30 Delivery Plan to reverse nature decline' through a Regenerative Renaissance lens fairsnape.substack.com/p/sorting-na...
I wrote about The End of Everything & I think the paywall is down so: observer.co.uk/culture/book...
The visions of M John Harrison | The Observer
The End of Everything is a bravura, brain-melting sci-fi in which Britain comes under attack from the astral plane
observer.co.uk
A song thrush's inherited song, and the ecological intelligence we've stopped listening for. #NatureWriting fairsnape.substack.com/p/no-mean-pr...
No Mean Preacher
A song thrush's inherited song, and the ecological intelligence we've stopped listening for.
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We have forgotten how to read the living world. How to understand soil, seeds, fungi, bodies, communities and economies as part of one interdependent web. These eight thinkers offer a way back. re-generation.cc/en/longread/... #NatureWriting
The new eco-literacy: 8 thinkers on how to read the living world again
After speaking with some of the most inspiring ecological thinkers of our time, the ecological crisis comes into focus as a crisis of literacy. From Vandana Shiva to Jeremy Lent: these 8 people offer ...
re-generation.cc
Four were asked what they were worth Water Dandelion Air and Soil None answered in numbers. #naturewriting #AskMeDifferently fairsnape.substack.com/p/ask-me-dif...
Ask me differently
what counts
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“The end of the field as we know it is the start of the estate.” Death of a Field by Paula Meehan (2005)
#WildflowerHour wild flower beauty seen this week, all bar one here in Inglewhite, Lancashire (Orchid in Cumbria)
I rest a while at a favourite spot. An umbrella of juniper bushes, all wisen, bonsai-like, above Grasmere. A willow warbler flits and sings. Not marked on my map, or mentioned in romantic poetry or prose … Earthday #NatureWriting 'Where The Junipers Grow' open.substack.com/pub/fairsnap...
Composed on EarthDay 2026 in a Juniper grove above Grasmere
Field Notes from 'Where The Junipers Grow' - An Aiteannach
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#earthday26 #lakedistrict #fellwaking & time #Naturewriting and #sketching in stunning Earth-Scapes … An Aiteannach: The Place Where Junipers Grow
“Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals.” Aldo Leopold Sand County Almanac #NatureWriting #EarthDay2026 #OurPowerOurPlanet
Thinking this is Bog Star, Parnassia palustris, the county flower of Cumbria. On Long Rigg, Haweswater Nature Reserve yesterday #wildflowerhour
The River Brock is running clear this morning. I noticed it before I could explain why. I’d stopped at the bridge, the quality of the light on the water, the sound, somehow lighter than it has been. A heron watched. fairsnape.substack.com/p/regenerati... #naturewriting #correspondence
Regenerative spring correspondence
words, relationships, interiority, a future for standards
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Great and long overdue conversation after National Emergency Briefing screening with Longridge Town Council this evening. We have a full public screening on June 3rd. Amazing the number of screenings planned … very likely to be one near you. www.nebriefing.org/screening-map
National Emergency Briefing
Find a People's Emergency Briefing screening near you, or spot a gap that you can fill by hosting a screening.
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#wildflowerhour #cowslipchallenge always a delight in late afternoon sun following rain (Primula veris … ‘of spring' ) #noticingnature #naturewriting
SpaceX recently announced plans to launch one million more satellites as orbital data centres for AI computing power will destroy the night sky for everyone on Earth ... theconversation.com/a-million-ne...
A million new SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on Earth
If SpaceX launches one million new satellites, it will increase atmospheric pollution and risk of falling debris. And we will see more satellites than stars.
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The spectacular film adaptation of my book Underland is in cinemas as of Friday. More details at: www.underlandfilm.com Working on more screenings in Scotland, Wales & NI.
“Place a sprig in a can and hope for the best” On this day in 1957, following a nature - food documentary voiced by Richard Attenborough people phoned the BBC looking for advice on growing spaghetti trees. Results were not reported. 01/04 #dailynature #naturewriting
“Pure sunshine, they are. An instant tonic for a grey day or a low mood” Josie George #naturewriting in today’s Guardian Country Diary www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Country diary: It is our duty to delight in the dandelion | Josie George
Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: These early spring bloomers are a favourite of mine, a model of nature’s generosity, yet so often ignored
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Watching. From kitchen window. The tree creeper (certhia familiaris) creeps, weaves, hangs, spirals around the Apple tree bole. It was movement, seemingly of the bark itself, that gave away ‘ki’ presence before id of white belly and tweezer bill. 🌱 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting 31/03
"The land is the real teacher. All we need as students is mindfulness". -Robin Wall Kimmerer
Lap-wing, Flap-wing Black-wing, Silver-wing Dawn-lit, Spring Pee-wit 💚 #noticingnature #dailynature #naturewriting
Must try harder …. Annual State of the Global Climate report … increasing vulnerability of a planet that is moving ever further out of equilibrium as a result of human activity. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
State of the Climate report finds Earth’s energy has moved dangerously out of balance, with oceans absorbing vast majority of trapped heat
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