🚨 Starting in 2 hours - OPEN:LAB 26 🌿 Today's topic: What is Ecological Health? We’ll be inviting queries on topics such as pollution and biological stress as well as the role that data has in contextualising and communicating our health. Read More ⬇️ www.thecentriclab.com/open-lab-jul...

Open Lab: July 26 — CENTRIC LAB

We’re inviting those who’ve worked through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of open-lab sessions. In these sessions we’ll be inviting people to ask specific questions in...

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🗣️ ONE WEEK TO GO! OPEN:LAB / 2026 We’re opening up the doors and inviting those who’ve worked (mostly) through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of sessions to ask specific questions in relation to the course content. All are welcome.

Brendan Coolsaet et al have now finalized "Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions". Available in open access on the website of Belgeo. It includes 15 articles, in French or in English, as well as an editorial (available in both languages): journals.openedition.org/belgeo/81567...

4 | 2025 Environmental justice in Europe, spatial dimensions

Revue internationale de géographie et tribune pour la production géographique belge / International journal of geography and platform for the Belgian research in geography

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Launching OPEN LAB: July 2026 📖 We’re inviting those who’ve worked through the Introduction to Ecological Health online course to a series of open-lab sessions. In these sessions we’ll be inviting people to ask specific questions in relation to the course content.

REMINDER FOR TOMORROW: Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis. Our event with UCL Public Policy on what role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? 📅 Tuesday 12th May ⏰ 12-1pm (UK) 📍 online (free) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

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Up Close and Policy is produced by @uclpublicpolicy.bsky.social. Lab director Araceli Camargo is speaking alongside: 🗣️ @ilankelman.bsky.social is Professor of Disasters and Health at University College London, and 🗣️ Poppy Lyle, currently Head of Air Quality at the Greater London Authority.

Centric Lab@thecentriclab.com · 5mo ago

NEW EVENT What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? And what happens when science, community advocacy, and policy adopt a shared vocabulary rooted not in abstraction, but in lived experience? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

NEW EVENT What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises? And what happens when science, community advocacy, and policy adopt a shared vocabulary rooted not in abstraction, but in lived experience? www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/up-close-p...

Up Close & Policy: Naming the Crisis

What role does language play in how we understand, communicate, and respond to environmental crises?

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We're currently working alongside this community group. If you're feeling generous or righteous, please consider donating to their campaign. Judicial reviews are powerful ways to set new legal precedence on environmental justice issues. www.crowdjustice.com/case/judicia...

Stop a Toxic Gasworks Development causing London-wide Pollution

My name is Jude Allen. I'm a local resident and documentary filmmaker and member of a local community campaign fighting to stop a toxic gasworks development in West London.

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Quite a week it's been. In case you missed it, here's what's happened in the world of Centric Lab this week. 📝 We launched the 'Introduction to Ecological Health' online course 🔗 www.thecentriclab.com/an-introduct...

🔶 Introducing 🔶 AN INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGICAL HEALTH A self-led online learning journey. We're trying to equip community leaders and organisers with the tools and resources that validate their lived experiences, sustain, and accelerate their advocacy work. This course helps to achieve that.

🚨 BIG NEWS 🚨 Today we launch the ‘Introduction to Ecological Health’ online learning course. It's a free, open access, space that brings together numerous learnings that we've produced over the years. Designed across four learning modules the course introduces learners to a range of topics.

Our January Newsletter is OUT CONTENTS 🔶 NEW COLLABORATION WORK: Health, Place, and Retrofit. 🔶 NEW BLOG: A Reflection on the Term 'Indicator' by Hannah Yu-Pearson 🔶 WHAT'S HAPPENING: A snapshot of the some of the projects we're working on a the moment. mailchi.mp/6fe57ce12f0b...

@kinship.works Really enjoyed this report - www.kinship.works/publications... - some real alignments with some things we're working on at @thecentriclab.com, thanks for putting it together and sharing the knowledge! ✊

Civic Rewilding: Applying the lessons from Big Local — Kinship Works

In this final report we synthesise the evidence from Big Local, providing a practical guide to the craft of ‘civic rewilding’. This is a revised and expanded version of our earlier Working Paper, addi...

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It's #CleanAirWeek by the @unep.org discussing solutions for improving air quality in the Asia-Pacific region and we're going to be sharing some learnings everyday on our work in this area. First up: Defining Data for Health Justice www.thecentriclab.com/aik-data-hj/...

Defining Data for Health Justice — CENTRIC LAB

Data is a powerful tool for justice and language for accountability. However, data can easily be manipulated and used to entrench inequities. In this lesson, I'll cover some of the fundamentals around...

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From Health Councils to Healing Hubs In 2021, Centric Lab leaned into an emerging ontological shift with knowledge production. The result was to set up the Urban Health Council. @impurbanhealth.bsky.social came on board as partners shortly after. Here's our shared learnings from the past 3 years

"Planetary Dysregulation and Our Mental Health" www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa... @thecentriclab.com @psychologytoday.com #MentalHealthAwareness #PlanetaryHealth #GlobalHealth #Health #OneHealth #EcoHealth #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #MentalHealth

Planetary Dysregulation and Our Mental Health

An out-of-balance planet leads to adverse mental health outcomes; we can act to avoid both.

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PUBLISHED TODAY 🚨 Centric Lab are featured in @psychologytoday.com by @ilankelman.bsky.social as he talks about adopting the term 'planetary dysregulation'. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/disa...

Planetary Dysregulation and Our Mental Health

An out-of-balance planet leads to adverse mental health outcomes; we can act to avoid both.

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Big moment for us at @thecentriclab.com (and me personally) in the publication of this case study in the @citiesxhealth.bsky.social journal.

Cities & Health@citiesxhealth.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Community Health Impact Assessment by @joshartus.bsky.social et al. 🔍 #CityKnowHows 🔍A case study in developing a Health Impact Assessment from the eyes of a Community www.cityknow-how.com/how-migratio... #Cities4Health #HealthyCities #Community #HealthImpactAssessment

New thinking from the Lab 👇

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A Case for Health Reparations For Communities Affected by Air Pollution. This work lays out pathways and theories to nurture our communities, create infrastructure for autonomous healing processes, and live through this epoch with dignity. www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

A Case for Health Reparations For Communities Affected by Air Pollution. This work lays out pathways and theories to nurture our communities, create infrastructure for autonomous healing processes, and live through this epoch with dignity. www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

No Time for Leaders We have created this zine as a framing that helps guide our work moving forward. www.thecentriclab.com/stories-prov...

Air Pollution and Abolition. How might we approach this? Follow this thread to see some of our thinking...

"Without the credible threat of legal challenge, laws to protect our right to healthy environment will not be enforced and polluters will act with impunity...[for] action on social, environmental & climate justice, then repealing Regulation 15 is a no brainer" www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/2491...

How legal aid reform should work for environmental justice

The Herald has outlined the myriad challenges facing the criminal and civil legal aid system: from a shortage of solicitors, to lengthy delays in…

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Incredible story of perseverance, shocking it had to happen. "approximately 90% of Owino Uhuru residents tested positive for lead poisoning in a sample of 800" Stop the Right to Pollute! mediafornature.org/2024/12/18/e...

Environmental Justice Triumphs: Supreme Court Holds Polluters Accountable in Owino Uhuru Lead Poisoning Case - Media For Nature

Owino Uhuru residents addressing the media at one of the past demonstrations against devastating effects of lead poisoning as the case for compensation dragged in court. The Supreme Court awarded them...

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A 🧵 on the first 3 months of our Air is Kin project. We have identified the following needs and knowledges gaps within the space of environmental justice and clean air advocacy.

"They say, ‘Oh, well, we have fresh water now.’ But, they’re going to have to live for the rest of their lives with the contamination of their bodies. That’s why, in a number of cases, the struggle for environmental justice is a matter of life and death." insideclimatenews.org/news/2402202...

‘Never Let Anyone Break Your Spirit’: How an Environmental Justice Forefather Is Thinking About Our Current Moment - Inside Climate News

Plus some lessons in perseverance inspired by Martin Luther King, Jr., himself.

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How epistemic injustice in research kills: This essay (www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...) reminds us: When the excuse for bad research is "‘Nobody could have realised..." we should always respond with "Really – nobody?" "The other side of a culture of silence and silencing is one of not listening.

"resilience during recovery is rooted in collective action" - @1000currents.bsky.social tcurrents.exposure.co/finding-resi...

Finding Resilience in the Ruins by Thousand Currents on Exposure

By Ayşe Gürsöz, Photographer-in-Residence at Thousand CurrentsIn the early morning of February 6, 2023, a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated southern Türkiye and northern Syria, killing over 50,000 p...

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Congratulations Nataly! This is incredible, inspiring, and insightful piece of work! It is a reflective essay on the integration of groundbreaking research with Indigenous / Land-Kinned knowledge, with an insightful focus on Bitter Potatos and their deep connection to the Aymara and Quechuan Peoples

Nataly Allasi Canales@allasicanales.bsky.social · 2y ago

Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru. Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support

Proud to be releasing my piece/essay that explores the aspects of my potato research that fascinate me so much. The essay focuses on my time working alongside Indigenous agricultural and botanical experts in the Andean regions of Bolivia and Peru. Big thanks to @thecentriclab.com for their support

Bharath A. B. Nair (ഭരത് എ. ബി. നായർ)@bharathabnair.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.healingimaginations.org/imaginations... Cool piece sharing the Andean cosmovision @allasicanales.bsky.social @thecentriclab.com. A blueprint for us to build a sustainable future 💡.