Monkey Wrench Mag

Opinion forming eco-mag - Founder/ Editor @alexjellicoe #monkeywrenchmag Blog 👇👇

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"The Monkey Wrench Gang is a blog about environmental sustainability & an experiment in new media. We're rolling up our sleeves to challenge damaging cultural certainties in the age of ecological restoration" Founder: @alexjellicoe

#environmentalism #extinctionrebellion

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In the meantime if anyone needs an environmental expert for any writing or media gigs I’m available. I do other stuff too like science and policy.

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Hopefully we will be back in the not too distant future so we can showcase these amazing people and their insight into a brilliant sustainable future

17/17

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This initiative was funded by me but I was hoping that after the 1st issue we would get sponsorship for financial sustainability to achieve longevity. As #Covid19 has destabilised the economy I can no longer afford to pay contributors but wanted to say THANK YOU

16/17

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And finally, youth striker Henrietta Day, illustrator of Greta Thunberg for the recent @bristolYS4C movement, drew us a picture of what the future could look like if we all #actnow

15/17

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We had planned to explore modern heirlooms. In the words of Satish Kumar, everything we buy should be beautiful, useful and durable. So who are the designer/makers creating things so well made that we can pass down to our children?

14/ 17

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I’m gutted to miss out on my trip to Kudhva – an off-grid retreat in Cornwall where I had hoped to challenge my own loss of connection with nature – and share the story of Louise who has turned an old quarry into a nature retreat https://t.co/z2fgjqujg6

13/17

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I had a week long plant-based cookery course with @demuths to upskill my own cooking, explore our relationship with food and how to improve planetary and human health from field to fork

12/17

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Sarah Swords had planned a visit to Chesil Beach to use her magical writing skills to shift perspectives about travel as a means to connect with eachother and the land. The discovery of the exotic in the local

11/17

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The poet Caroline Harris was writing/illustrating on the theme of SCRUB. In built environments, scrub marks the ever-moving border between the human-made and the other-than-human: the plants of railway tracksides, derelict land, motorway embankments

10/17
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The poignant & beautiful writing of screen-writer Sarah Swords takes us on a journey of connection through renovating an ancient skittle alley with love not materialism - it's published on the blog

9/17
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What can it learn from the new? Malin Ekengren, good friend and head of denim design at Stella McCartney, was going to tell us about new technologies and the future of fashion

8/17

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Before lockdown I had planned an interview with Natalie Gibson – a veteran fashion designer who has watched the trajectory of the fashion industry over her fifty plus year career with increasing horror. What can this industry learn from the old ways? And in turn

7/17

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Manu Maunganidze who runs Nature Youth Connection & Education in Bristol was casting a critical eye on the literature around the benefits of British nature and what it means to people from different backgrounds

6/17

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#diversity

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Good friend @natalieFee founder of @citytosea_ was sharing her personal journey into understanding the lack of diversity in her own organisation and her plans to remedy this – both of us are on a journey to understand our own role in race issues

5/17

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#ClimateJustice

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Monkey Wrench regular, the ever passionate and insightful @clairefrwordley wrote about how essential it is for more female voices in the environmental movement

4/17

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#ClimateEmergency

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The brilliant @samjknights was writing us an article about inequality in politics – especially the lack of youth representation

We had joined up with @Shelter to source clothes/accessories for a shoot in a derelict building in Peckham

3/17

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Our plans have been shelved for now but the fight against the #ClimateCrisis must continue

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Our cover girl was @BirdgirlUK who I interviewed. We discussed how indigenous tribes are looking after biodiversity.

We also planned an alternative fashion shoot using vintage clothing. It’s perfectly possible to be stylish without wrecking the planet

2/17

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I’ve cancelled the 1st issue of @monkeywrenchmag but I wanted to give you an insight into what would have been. It was an intelligent, eclectic, fun, accessible culture/lifestyle take on eco issues. The theme of the 1st issue was diversity

1/17

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So what is #BlueAcceleration and how is it affecting our #marinelife?

Read more about how we must protect #whales and #dolphins from offshore industrialisation as onshore resources dwindle.

https://t.co/hCgaMXHIuu

@dolphinproject @ConservationOrg @savingoceans @oceanunite

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