Katja Garson

Forests+bogs/climate justice/more-than-human. Research, activism, art. 🌿 Some roots: @CLARA_Alliance @Fern_NGO @lunduniversity @oxfordgeography @GeogDurham

[Katja Garson @kmgarson]

'Forest peace...is an inner peace' - Bachelard
Reflections on #Saimaa, Finland, 4.30am, July 10th '16
#ForestsDay #forestsmatter #metsä

[Global Forest Coalition (GFC) (also on bluesky) @GFC_forests]

⛏️ Coltan mining in the DRC, and extractivism in general, is a driving force in mass oppression, human rights abuses, and environmental damage. 🇨🇩

🪨 Here are some of the key points from a paper we published recently on extractivism in the #DRC

🔗 https://t.co/eDfBORuIYF

🧵

[Dr Anna Krzywoszynska @Anna_K_speaking]

Job alert: full-time Doctoral Researcher (three years) with a background in anthropology, geography, environmental humanities or similar studies, to work in ICEBERG: a project with indigenous communities, working on Arctic Ocean pollution governance https://t.co/ekj7zNB9vR

[Dr Anna Krzywoszynska @Anna_K_speaking]

We love to speak about #soil #care; but can we actually use 'care' to shape soil research? Yes! I discuss how in a recent chapter in 'Cultural Understandings of Soil', published with
@IUSS_ORG
https://t.co/CLotRfAu8W, accessible pre-print here https://t.co/9vXfhXupQF
@arcticants

[Katja Garson @kmgarson]

"illicit practices are often not so different from state-like practices; both are concerned with maintaining privileged access to, and power over, the management and circulation of resources and the spaces they derive from" -@jaredmargulies et al in fascinating @Pol_Geog_Jl issue

[Sumana Roy @SumanaSiliguri]

I wrote about Bengali plant thinkers who imagined a forest state - what might India have been had we chosen to model ourselves on a forest state &not a nation state? In the Fall issue of @ArnoldiaMag a magazine on plant life published by Harvard University
https://t.co/IWs1lm4QJU

[Katja Garson @kmgarson]

Very excited to be attending the #RGSIBG23 @RGS_IBG conference in London! I will be speaking in two sessions - 'Digging into data: learning together from analysis experiences', and 'Speculative time: Temporal durations beyond the human condition'. Don't hesitate to say hi! 🌿🌿🌿

[Radical Geography Research Group @RadGeography]

Geographies of Justice is now....

✊⚡️🌏RADICAL GEOGRAPHY RESEARCH 🌍GROUP⚡️✊

To find out more and get involved, join our AGM at #RGSIBG23 in #London this week:

📅Weds 30th
⏰6.15pm
📍Drayson Room

All welcome, see you there!

🔗https://t.co/GoXlpPy5Zc

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Allan Brown has been working some woolly magic. Hand spun, naturally dyed yarn from fleeces local to him. These are warp loom threads he’ll weave into cloth. No doubt it’ll be as lovely as the flax and nettle he grew, wove and stitched into a shirt. Slow textiles at its finest.

[Katja Garson @kmgarson]

Late, but... reflecting on the incredible #Mushroom Methods workshop in Oulu earlier in August. Mycelium, fungal art, ruins, multispecies interactions & #biodiversity... Perfectly inspiring, friendly & critical. How research & comings-together should be.

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

Here’s the dry silk from yesterday’s indigo leaf dye sesh. It’s pretty much my dream colour. From seeds planted at the end of June.

[Dr Anna Krzywoszynska @Anna_K_speaking]

Mushroom Methods starting with @a_venovcevs setting out an agenda for multispecies mushroom research, and reflecting on mushroom un-making of dark heritage @arcticants

[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

2 photos of the arctic both taken in the summer more than 70 years apart show the dramatic change in the continent ice cover.

There is no time to waste. No planet B. #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #GreenNewDeal pic via @ChristianAslund

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

This image breaks me. At 2.7 degrees of warming, which is our present policy trajectory, two billion people will be exposed to extreme heat.

99.7% of those people live in the global South. People who have done nothing to cause this crisis. The injustice is staggering.

[Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose_]

If only I could knit. These bundles of beauty by Annie Cadden are naturally dyed with walnut leaves, barberry/indigo, indigo, mushroom/indigo, indigo, sumac, lichen, walnut & yarrow.

https://t.co/xTKJlWgCON

[Sarah Jane Humphrey @sarahgalerie]

Who’s enjoying the Gorse right now? These make a brilliant subject to illustrate, with or without colour 💛
#botanicalillustration #ArtistOnTwitter #gorse

[Dan Ryan @danryan_nature]

A pair of pansies stage a cheerful rebellion against the concreting of the world.

[Fern @Fern_NGO]

EU decision makers are about to decide what to do about the Renewable Energy Directive (#RED) which has led Europe to sacrifice “its ancient forests for energy”.

But the #BiomassIndustry is lobbying hard against better rules.

Here is an overview

#thread

[Emily G Cunningham MBE @EG_Cunningham]

🧵4/n

It’s only now that I’ve left that I can really begin to process my Antarctic experience.

And only now that I’ve left can I let myself acknowledge the canary in the coal mine…

This wonderful place is dying.

[Emily G Cunningham MBE @EG_Cunningham]

🧵 2/n

Antarctica is awe, wonder and wildlife abundance at a scale I assumed was confined to the history books; all set within a landscape so spectacular it’s nigh on impossible to take it in.

#Antarctica