The folly of COP
Supercluster, headed by our co-founder Geert Vermeire, together with Fred Adam, were able to secure funding from the British Council to work on a project in connection to COP27, the climate conference that's about to happen in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt.
If you're under 30, and in either the UK or Egypt, consider responding to the open call. Get your funding from the British government, while it still exists.
These are interesting times. The west, NATO and the US in front, eagerly prepare for nuclear war with Russia. But if we survive the hubris of our political overlords on that front, our children are not so likely to survive the consequences of climate change, largely fuelled by escalating, unbridled, capitalism.
The world will be watching as our leaders hop on their private jets to Egypt, and we can expect a last minute congratulatory round of handshakes and self-congratulatory collective hugs, but what we are less likely to see is meaningful change in both the short and long term.
But, the folly of COP is not the futility of this get-together. Or, rather, that folly is superseded by this conference being held within a closed, heavily regulated, community, within a country where freedom of expression is curtailed, and human rights are blatantly, and continuously violated, and, where you can get the death penalty for accepting foreign funding.
I'd laugh, if I wasn't crying.
Meanwhile, in somewhat calmer waters, our online jury has entered the last stretch in selecting the shortlist for the Sound Walk September Awards 2022.
There are some excellent submissions, and I'm looking forward to sharing them with you. But, you don't have to wait, you can check out the full list right now.
If you're interested in being part of next year's online jury, hit us up.
Keep walking!
|
Co-founder of walk · listen · create
|
|
Free for supporting members, open to everyone
|
2022-10-18 18:00 UTC
· Online
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create’s Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to have biologist and award-winning nature writer David George Haskell join us in October, talking about “Sounds Wild and Broken: Sonic marvels, Evolution's Creat... Keep reading
|
New walking pieces
|
A short stroll through the remnant lowland subtropical rainforest, Wingham Brush Nature Reserve, wedged between the town of Wingham and the Manning River on the Mid North Coast of NSW. Part of the Regional Futures project. Keep reading
|
Upcoming events
|
2022-10-18 18:00 UTC
· Online
Meet the authors who are writing about walking and the landscapes through which we walk, at walk · listen · create’s Walking Writers Salons. We are delighted to hav... Keep reading
|
From our network
|
Banc d’écoute crépusculaire. Devant moi, à nuit tombante, coule la Dordogne sableuse, ocrée, en silence. Il faut s’en approcher tout près pour entendre ses remous b... Keep reading
|
|
I like to tell myself I got as close to thinking like a sheep when I became obsessed by apples, but I don’t know if that is true. For weeks I walked with them and ... Keep reading
|
|
Join this program for free!Reading Water invites young people (in their twenties or early thirties) in the UK and Egypt to respond to water issues by connecting loc... Keep reading
|
|
Vendredi 14 octobre Premières marches écoutes, forêt de la Double, dans une parcelle de la Cali, au Fieu. Des groupes d’enfants des écoles de la Communauté d’agglom... Keep reading
|
|
Jeudi 13 octobre Départ de LyonRonronnement7 heures de busRonronnementÇa berceOn l’oublieÒn somnoleDe beaux paysagesRonronnement ArrivéePromenade sur le port fluvia... Keep reading
|
|
Congratulations to David Thompson for his prize-winning Wales shoreline-inspired poem "Rock Pools on the Tide Line". Prize sponsored by Cover to Cover Books and the... Keep reading
|
|
Delighted to be performing this brand new audio-visual piece with Scott Millar at Outlaws Yacht Club in Leeds on Sunday … More Keep reading
|
|
Join us for our traditional Halloween jaunt around the Stirchley Skull. Keep reading
|
|
Two things I have just learned: A very rare instance of a Welsh word finding its way into English: penguin. originally, of course, pen-gwyn - white head. Excep... Keep reading
|
|
I am pleased that my essay Squaring the Circle has been published in Caught by the River. In it I walk forageable and forbidden places near my home in Edinburgh.
... Keep reading
|
Stuff we found
|
Few stretches of the England coast path are as storied as the 20 miles connecting the Kent towns of Deal, Dover and Folkestone. But far from living in the past, eac... Keep reading
|
|
‘Get ready to see Manila face to face’ Source: LOOK: October Heritage Walks to feature 4 areas in Manila Keep reading
|
|
Life is in the details. And this week’s column by Sarah Cook calls out many of those in our own backyard. It’s easy to get tunnel vision and want to just get from A... Keep reading
|
Follow us on social media
