Body/Land & Climate Change

This report highlights the cultural and practical changes needed to protect Nature in cities and embrace the existing relationships and knowledges. This report provides its readers a new lens in looking at Nature by investigating the different epistemologies, ways of understanding, of health, nature, and community.

The more we understand the microbiome, the more we can play a role in including their fruition in cities, we do not have to make a choice between cities and healing.

Microbial ecologist Dr. Jake Robinson introduces us to think about air, not as a singular entity around us, but as a dynamic ecology; containing diverse microbial communities of bacteria, viruses, archaea, algae, fungi, protozoa and tiny animals, along with pollen, organic compounds and spores galore.

The intention of this audio project is to discuss the links between systems and imaginations rooted in supremacy, the dysregulation of planetary systems, and the poor health outcomes being experienced by peoples who are racialised and minoritised.

As planetary dysregulation continues without systemic intervention, the threat to children’s health will continue to rise. It seems redundant to say, but we should prioritise the health of children as they are our future ancestors, who have imaginations and futures to fulfil. 

Disability justice is inextricably linked to environmental justice, and we cannot truly have either one without the other. Disabled people were some of the first to sound the alarm about the damage that seemingly mundane products cause and whose voices need to be heard in the climate space.

This project was created to showcase the lived experience of how colonisation has affected Indigenous Peoples in varied and unique ways, ripping some of us from Ancestral Lands, Peoples, and culture whilst others are currently fighting to keep their territories as colonisation continues to evolve. 

Nature can be a site of freedom, and an opportunity to extend our ideas of Transness outside of just humans: what if the ocean is non-binary? What could it mean to relate our genders to elements in nature rather than social norms?

This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised, working-class communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems (climate change). 

This report will focus on the pathways that are contributing to planetary dysregulation and their impacts on human health. With the purpose of updating policies that will support the work of environmental and health justice practitioners. 

We need environmental justice not sustainability. The destruction capitalism has done to natural habitats will now require a justice perspective, we have to fundamentally change our focus from consumption to conservation.

In this report, we define symbiosis as a long-term biological and philosophical interaction between Humans and Nature that is mutualistic and obligate.

In this report, we will highlight the major role that Nature plays in our health. We highlight that we cannot live healthy lives without healthy Nature and argue that, for healthy People and a healthy Planet, we must stop treating Nature as a service or commodity.