Nature, Cities, Health, and Healing
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.
Invisible Health
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.
Who are Air?
In this essay, 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.
Planetary Dysregulation, Capitalism, & Healthcare
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.
Growing Up in Crisis
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.
Planetary Dysregulation & Disabled Communities
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 like makeup, fragrances and detergents can do to a body - with already-chronically ill people being more likely to develop Multiple Chemical Sensitivities (MCS). The chemicals in these products also pollute our ecosystems when they poured down domestic drains.
Planetary Dysregulation & Indigenous Communities
This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems. 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.
Planetary Dysregulation & Transgender Communities
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?
Planetary Dysregulation & the Multi-Ethnic Working Class
This project was created to showcase the lived experience and expertise of the various marginalised communities being affected by the dysregulation of our planetary systems. The multi-ethnic working class is a socially constructed umbrella term to describe those who have been marginalised and artificially classified due to their type of work and income.
The Planetary Dysregulation
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.
Reciprocity, not Sustainability
Capitalism is finally acknowledging that it has reached a limit to its extraction methods, it can no longer keep taking from nature without consequence. In response, capitalism is employing more sustainable practices with sustainability or green technology at the top of most corporate agendas, however this is not going to be enough. Especially, if we are to reach meaningful planetary health goals that can also have a positive impact on human health.
Symbiotic Living with Nature
In this report, we define symbiosis as a long-term biological and philosophical interaction between Humans and Nature that is mutualistic and obligate.
Nature is Healthcare
In this report, we will highlight the major role that Nature plays in our health, going beyond the mere aesthetic value to understanding the nourishing value of Nature. We will 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.