Author: Sophie Spooner. ‘Cooking up a Storm: The Revolutionary Power of Cooking in the Curriculum’, an online event at the Learning Planet Festival 2025, brought together people passionate about food, community, and a more sustainable way of living. This blog tucks into how the ingredients for change were laid out and the role of food education was clearly served up in discussions as a powerful potential in shaping a more resilient and connected future.
Authors: Sadhbh Horan and Cordula Scherer, Trinity Centre for Environmental Humanities, Sept 2025. In June 2025, our first in-person workshop with the international team of Coastal TALES took place. Having spent the first few days of the meeting in my local Dublin, blessed with good weather and unusually high temperatures, the team were eager to begin the Welsh leg of the agenda.
Author: Debby Mercer. The communication of the climate crisis takes many different forms. Both The Man Who Planted Trees and How to Blow up a Pipeline are based on books and have a strong environmental message but are delivered in very different ways. While The Man Who Planted Trees has beautiful animation and a feel-good narrative with hope and positivity throughout, How to Blow up a Pipeline is a dark and gritty dramatization, questioning the validity and morality of extreme actions like property damage and terrorism.
Author: Dr Nsah Mala. Stories from the Futures of Congo Basin is a project by BRIDGES Hub for Planetary Wellbeing, University of Cologne, Coordinator and 2023 NGFP Judges’ Choice Fellow Dr Nsah Mala.
Author: Sophie Spooner. At the Bridging Futures event, Kogi Ambassador, Jose Manuel Sauna Mamatacan, Translated by Paula Rodriguez, delivered a special cultural address, sharing Kogi wisdom about relationships with the natural world, and a powerful ritual which captured the presence of all who came together and experienced this as One.
