20/09/2026
Thank you to all who came to the talk last Friday and to the wonderful speakers who participated in making a super positive Responses To Climate Change.
Particular thanks to
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Ben from e5 Bakehouse,
PA from Awaykin,
And our very own Tommy from Tommy Jay
I always come away feeling super enlivened from such inspirational journeys that each speaker described. A particularly potent memory from Ben described the memory of long-stalked fields of wheat, waving wistfully in the wind, now replaced with stubby wheat, full of nitrogen and phosphates, their heavy heads expanded. The effect of increase yields and GM varieties affecting the look and feel of the countryside. As a fellow East Anglian, I recognise the change, though never with such clarity.
Another discussion by PA of Awaykin reminding us that with the use of natural dies in clothing, comes the smell of the farmyard. Not something to be dismissed but understood and embraced. Or the realisation that a prolonged period of drought or wet has an effect on the production of dies and natural fibres - something to be ever more considerate of in the face of more extreme weather.
Finally, I was really wowed by the ever amazing Emily in her discussion about Natural Capital and how she is making landscape recovery investible at scale. To see them found a national market to make nature valued, and solve some of the issues that an unhealthy ecology has (such as poor water retention leading to flooding of train tracks) is truely inspirational.
And last but not least, the detailed clarity of Tommy in tackling the retro-fit of a semi in Cork. The particular circumstances encountered - multiplied by the millions of similar instances - of balancing thermal mass / renewable material resource, insulation / heat recovery, cost / environmental considerations was a clear process of what we can do should we want to.
Thank you to all and I urge everyone to check out all those that spoke.
Till the next in 2027!
