Jules Pretty

New on our blog: writer & researcher @JulesPretty1 presents 3 objects & stories of personal resonance in the #Anthropocene, where the common theme of #story itself is a powerful mark of individual & cultural #agency for change & #hope in uncertain times. wp.me/p8dsAT-55x

We wished @JulesPretty1 a very happy retirement yesterday with colleagues from across the university. Over 28 years Jules has played a vital role, including influential research, vital leadership positions, innovations in public engagement, & written a number of fantastic books.

018 Lovely Slopes, I Will Not Leave julespretty.com/chronicles/018… The old sagas had something to say about this: will we want to save and look after places and nature we do not care about? Maybe not so much. And how do we come to care? Next issue of The Climate Chronicles here

Pioneering professor @JulesPretty1 is retiring after 28 years at Essex. Professor Pretty's influential research has helped transform the way we perceive the environment. Find out more about his work at Essex and beyond here: brnw.ch/21wNKoz

A selection of photos and haiku/lu-shih poems here in my website Gallery julespretty.com/gallery/ "In serving the evening meal, The local waiter says he'd never been unable, To ski in summer the Marmolada glacier."

017 Beowulf and Kindness at the King’s Hall New post to The Climate Chronicles [9 mins reading time] julespretty.com/chronicles/017… This story: Beowulf and the centrality of kindness in the epic poem Addressing the big crises of climate & nature might need something similar

🌊 2 Weeks to Go! 🌊 Join for our inspiring speaker event, 'Making Waves: Voices for Water': 📅 Date: 24th September, 7pm-9.30pm 📍 Location: @RGS_IBG 🎟️ Get your tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/making-waves… @julespretty1 @paul_rose @helenscales @adventureagnew @amyjanebeer

016 Crossings Over Land and Life julespretty.com/chronicles/016… This koan is famed: On Ichi Shu. What is the Sound of One Hand A tale of transformation, about crossings from one place to the next, from one stage of life to another. What if world becomes filled with unheard calls?

015 The River Under the Icy Way julespretty.com/chronicles/015… This story is about the 1000-year tradition of ice fishers in Finland, how their cold worlds are now being lost at both ends of winter A koan is a matter to be made clearer. It invites us to stand in that place.

014 Mountains Hidden in Mountains Latest in The Climate Chronicles just published! julespretty.com/chronicles/014… [5 mins] Mountains are themselves too great not to be hidden. They cannot be known in full. The world is full of unknowables. Sometimes we break through, sometimes not.

A reminder of the inaugural Leiston Book Festival with @PaddyGalbraith, @JulesPretty1, @parfitt_tom, @robertashton1, Julia Blackburn and myself. Book sales managed by @abbieyvette from Halesworth Bookshop Sat Sept 7th 2024 Tickets £30 for the day: leistonbookfestival.co.uk/festival-progr…

013 The Wandering Poet’s Tale: No Place to Live Latest in The Climate Chronicles just published! julespretty.com/chronicles/013… This is the story of the hell descent of rulers, and how a famed national poem was written 1033 years ago: The Battle of Mealdune/Maldon.

New (!): Impact Report on Essex Climate Action Commission (ECAC) Report pdf here: julespretty.com/research-paper… Three years of work towards net zero since our major 2021 report – now 64 major impacts recorded Climate action is working locally across 26 such Commissions @PCANcities

The new website has, ah, broken all links from past posts to The Climate Chronicles julespretty.com/chronicles/ You'll find stories on counting stars; on fisher fox, wild men, the kindly Black Hound; on St Kilda, Iceland rescues, & whales retuning; on enoughness and ancient trees

Looking forward to taking part in the inaugural Leiston Book Festival with @PaddyGalbraith, @JulesPretty1, @parfitt_tom, @robertashton1 and Julia Blackburn with book sales managed by @abbieyvette from Halesworth Bookshop: Sat Sept 7th 2024 Tickets here: leistonbookfestival.co.uk/festival-progr…

It feels a bit tame, sending pointers to a new website… But then again, there are blogs and book links; pods and papers; films and a photo gallery; shodo images and story… julespretty.com julespretty.com/chronicles/

012 Enoughness: At the Dry Garden of Ryōan-ji [3 mins reading time] The lastest in The Climate Chronicles series - what "enoughness" might mean, how it can connect us to places and nature New website & content julespretty.com/chronicles/ julespretty.com/chronicles/012…

@RosyRickett Ah, I see it now! This is in Nayland, south Suffolk, a road we call Gravel Hill, probably forming part of a St Edmunds Way (pilgrim route), and heading north of the village (the pic looks south)

@JulesPretty1 Hello! A very late reply :) I'm looking for sunken lanes in Suffolk - would you mind telling me where this picture was taken? Thank you

Green lane, a sunken lane of Suffolk, worn into the landscape by the action of carts and feet over the centuries Half underground, half over #Trees&Temples

@RosyRickett I'm not sure of the picture Rosy! - could you somehow forward it (or give more details of the tweet), and I'll be v happy to give you the location

011 Praise the Whale and Sea julespretty.com/2024/05/05/011… [8 mins] We didn’t see at all, that the whales knew so much. The whale saved the people. Now we know, they attract visitors to remote ports, keen to watch the whale. They also capture blue carbon. Their numbers are rising.