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Osbert Lancaster

@osbert.org

Podcaster, facilitator and improviser, exploring how people and the rest of nature can thrive, right now and whatever the polycrisis brings. https://thrivablescotland.com/ 📍Edinburgh, Scotland

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Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · 3h ago

“No city has yet claimed the territory Edinburgh is uniquely placed to occupy: the world’s first regenerative festival city – a place where the very events that draw millions become the engine of community renewal.“ theconversation.com/edinburgh-fe...

Edinburgh festival: how the city’s residents could benefit after the crowds leave

Every year the festival attracts thousands of people to Scotland’s capital, but is the city able to harness this and improve it as a place to live?

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Juliet Wilson (Crafty Green Poet)@craftygreenpoet.bsky.social · yesterday

Oil and gas companies should not profit from an energy crisis. Will you sign this petition calling on governments to put in place permanent taxes on oil and gas companies? act.350.org/sign/treaty-...

Sign the petition: The global tax treaty that can make polluters pay

Every time oil and gas prices spike, from war, shortage, or plain market panic, big oil and gas companies cash in. We pay more at the pump and on our energy bills. They pay almost nothing extra in tax...

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Margot Finn@eicathomefinn.bsky.social · yesterday

This is simply wonderful news for the Migration Museum and its ongoing project to create the UK's first permanent museum exploring migration to and from the UK. The new Museum will be in the City of London, but is already working with collaborators outside London and outside England. 1/3

The Wolfson Foundation commits £600,000 to the UK’s ‘Missing Museum’

The Migration Museum is delighted to announce that The Wolfson Foundation has become a Founding Partner of the UK’s first permanent museum dedicated to exploring how the movement of people to and from...

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Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · 2d ago

This looks really interesting and useful. Unfortunately I’m busy at those times. Looking forward to hearing how it goes.

Prof Phoebe Barnard@phoebebarnard.bsky.social · 2d ago

“CLIMATE IN A TIME OF CONFLICT” - Lessons from #ukraine in a Destabilising World 🇺🇦 #ClimateEmergencyCentre Network Wednesday Webinar - 🌿 Filmmaker #JohnBowey on forthcoming 🇺🇦documentary Wed 5 Aug 7-8pm London / 11am Los Angeles / 2pm NYC. Please share! www.climaterepaircafe.com/climateconfl... /2

Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · 3d ago

A mention in @david-farrier.bsky.social’s thought provoking book “Native Genius” of Lauriston Farm, probably largest urban community farm in Europe, reminded me of my interview with founder Lisa Houston and her ambition to transform Edinburgh’s food system pod.thrivablescotland.com/episode/cult...

Cultivate wellbeing while transforming the food system - Thrivable Scotland

I was expecting a great community growing project. It was a bonus to discover such an inspiring, and credible, ambition to transform the food system.My ...

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Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · 4d ago

Interesting - adding my bookmarked articles, reports etc to around climate communication, hope, engagement etc to @semble.so could: 1) not only make them available to others, but also 2) gather views on their credibility, usefulness etc 3) help me and others discover related information

Ronen Tamari@ronentk.me · 6d ago

New post on the @cosmik.network blog: who ever heard of bookmarks that can help *shorten* your reading list? On how bookmarks, combined with social curation networks like @semble.so, can be much more than bookmarks - they can be sensors! blog.cosmik.network/sensors-not-...

Alison Fisk@alisonfisk.bsky.social · 4d ago

Sipping my coffee ☕️ and thinking about these marvellous Minoan cups! They look so modern it’s incredible to think they were made by Bronze Age potters some 3,800 years ago! Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. 📷 by me #Archaeology

My photo collage shows five cylindrical Minoan cups each with a single handle and a slightly flaring rim. Each cup is decorated with a different geometric polychrome motif as follows: Top left: on a black background, a central band delineated by an upper and lower white line contains evenly-spaced dark-orange circles. Each orange circle is outlined by a white line. Above and below the central band are swirling white vine-like lines. Top right: on a black background, a large white spiral on the front of the cup and beside it a dark-orange oval with stylised white petals at each end which looks like a wrapped sweet! Middle left: a central band of white and dark orange diagonal lines runs around the cup. Above and below the central band are alternating black and white diagonal shapes, the black ones look like shark fins Bottom left: a central reddish-orange band delineated with a white line. Above the central band are swirling, spiralling white lines against a black background, and below the central band are alternating white and black diagonal lines. Bottom right: A central band delineated with white lines contains white 's'-shaped diagonal white stripes. Above the central band a row of red dots outlined with white circles. Below the central band a single white line on the black background. This type of Minoan pottery is known as Kamares Ware, named after the Kamares Cave on Mount Ida on the Greek island of Crete where this kind of pottery was first discovered. Kamares Ware vessels were luxury items produced by palace workshops at Phaistos and Knossos on Crete. These five cups were excavated at Phaistos and are dated 1800-1700 BC.
Dr. Aaron Thierry@thierryaaron.bsky.social · 4d ago

9/ Approve a field like Rosebank and you create an owner, a workforce and an investor who can sue, all with thirty years of reason to defend it. Every approval hands the next government a fight it never needed to have.

Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · 4d ago

This sounds like actual leadership - that involves being open minded, curious, compassionate and, yes, pragmatic about what’s genuinely possible. I’d love to see Burnham do this around climate and nature; perhaps starting with social care that is so immediate paves the way for more complex issues.

James Murray@james-bg.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is really good from @iandunt.bsky.social on the debate Burnham has kicked off on social care. The contrast with the cynical attacks on net zero from Badenoch this week is stark. open.substack.com/pub/iandunt/...

Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · 6d ago

I’ve taken the plunge and signed up for @offprint.app’s annual plan. It doesn’t do exactly what I need yet, but I’m trusting it will soon be ready for me to bring my newsletter, blog, podcast and website into one place.

Offprint@offprint.app · 6d ago

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Brent Toderian@brenttoderian.bsky.social · 6d ago

“According to the finance ministry’s calculations, the cost to society of trips by car is close to one euro/km. On the other hand, every km travelled by bike yields societal gains of 60 euro cents thanks to the health benefits of cycling, transport efficiency gains, & lower infrastructure spending.”

Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities

Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

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Lucy Antal aka Grab Your Spoon@lucyantal.bsky.social · last wk.

I wouldn’t be here without the Refugee Convention. My dad was on a death list when he fled Hungary. Being welcomed to the UK & being able to continue his medical studies at Oxford’s Keble College, despite initially not speaking a word of English, led to him being a Liverpool GP for over 40 years.

Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · last wk.

I love all weird tangential facts I learn in this podcast, like in this episode, Jimi Hendrix being a big Coronation Street fan, and using the theme tune as the basis for one of his songs. 500songs.com/podcast/song...

Song 173: “All Along the Watchtower” Part Two, The Hour is Getting Late

For those who haven’t heard the announcement I posted , songs from this point on will sometimes be split among multiple episodes, so this is the second part of a two-episode look at the song “All A…

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Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · last wk.

Looking for something highly specific, and it's a real test of whether Bluesky has the juice: is there an artist out there who's similar to John Akomfrah making art about pandemics / infectious diseases?

Osbert Lancaster@osbert.org · last wk.

Sounds good! I was at Mayfield and Easterhouses last week at their brilliant community garden and cafe - created from … a disused bowling green!

Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust@greenspacetrust.bsky.social · last wk.

We had a great session in Prestonfield where local residents are transforming the Old Prestonfield Bowling Green into a vibrant community space to grow their own fruit and veggies. If you wish to get involved email esperanza@elgt.org uk

Dave Vetter@davidrvetter.bsky.social · 2w ago

Community support: While I was speaking to the crews, a lady from Blaenavon pulled up to drop off meals for the firefighters. She didn't want to be named, but she and the local community had been bringing the crews meals three times a day, every day, for the last five days.