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Another inspiring Biodiversity Collage UK workshop last week with an international audience! 😍 Always amazed by how much #good people want to make. We all want a #healthy #planet to live #happier. We don't know what we don't know 🤯 and being able to be humble about it is essential to #learn and often #delearn to #relearn. 🧐 Great #learnings, powerful #takeaways and impactful #actions: - #Informative - Communicate to sphere of influence at work - #Sobering - Cut down single used plastic - #Collaborative - rewilding local area - #Educative/reflective/interconnections - reduce single use plastics -  - #Informative/interesting - learn the connections - eye opening overview - talk to organisations about it - #Collaborative - share info with students to spread the word See you at the next one! UN Biodiversity Biodiversify The Biodiversity Consultancy Ltd @

🌟 Exciting Milestone Achieved! 🌟 I’m thrilled to share that I’ve just completed Module 3: Digital Sustainability for Biodiversity Action under the Digital4Sustainability Learning Path! 📜🌿 This module has been an eye-opening journey into the critical intersection of digital technology and biodiversity conservation. I’ve gained valuable insights into how digital tools can drive sustainable practices and support biodiversity efforts on a global scale. 🌍✨ Key takeaways include: Strategies for leveraging digital technologies to monitor and protect ecosystems Innovative approaches to integrating sustainability into digital solutions Practical methods for applying these strategies to real-world biodiversity challenges A huge thank you to [Course Provider/Instructor] for an incredible learning experience and to my peers for their engagement and support throughout the course. 🙏💡 I’m excited to apply these new skills and knowledge to [specific projects, roles, or goals]. Looking forward to contributing to sustainable development and biodiversity protection in innovative ways! #DigitalSustainability #Biodiversity #Sustainability #Digital4Sustainability #ProfessionalDevelopment #LifelongLearning

One of the ways in which Really Regenerative constantly disrupts itself to stay out of automatic energy and remain in conscious and creative energy is never to do exactly the same thing twice. In each of our learning journeys, we always introduce something new and different to the core curriculum because we have evolved during the period that passes between the previous and the current programme, and so has the context of the world around us. This year we have aligned our special guest speakers to either a key fractal of place or a key flow in place to share their ways of working from this perspective. This week Daniel Christian Wahl was our guest and we asked him to speak about working bioregionally as place. Some of our key takeaways were:- - for 90% of homo sapiens time on earth we lived bioregionally in harmony with the living systems on which we depend - first nations people moved across the land regenerating it as they moved (see Lyla June's great TEDx talk for more) - there is rapidly growing interest in bioregional investing as finance/funding begins to acknowledge the risk to planetary ecological boundaries and the long term instability of a global economic system - the approach to every bioregion should be contextual; in some places declaring and founding a bioregional learning centre will be approriate, in others quiet weaving betwee multi-stakeholder groups to subtly reveal the whole system to itself might be the right cultural approach to bring people and projects together. Some approaches might be multi disciplinary across institutions and individuals who are influential in the system of place, others might focus more on citizen engagement, empowerment and education. There is no 'right' way. In Mallorca it might be connecting people who work on the land and ocean together. Or working with the tourism industry. In Devon a movement can grow out of the pre-primed culture that has been fostered by Schumacher College and Transition Towns that already established an ecological focused learning culture. - it is a complex, slow and challenging scale at which to work but offers a great opportunity to work holistically across the free areas of critical challenge - economy, ecology and culture. To learn more about bioregional work tune into the series of conversations happening at the moment between bioregions across the world https://lnkd.in/eHd6ZHRB Or check out Joe Brewer's Design School for Regenerating Earth https://lnkd.in/gb4u3F2e

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, launched during the United Nations Biodiversity UN Biodiversity Conference in 2022, encourages governments, companies & investors to publish data on their nature-related risks, dependencies and impacts. These disclosures are intended to drive businesses to recognise, manage and mitigate their reliance on ecosystem goods and services. However, there is a ‘biodiversity blind spot’ that is evident for most organisations and business schools. Business education rarely addresses the root causes of biodiversity loss, such as the unsustainable exploitation of natural resources. As the dominant positioning of Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG) presents biodiversity in anthropocentric instrumental terms inadequate for addressing ecosystem decline, we posit that a more progressive and transformative #ecocentric #education through #ecopedagogy and #ecoliteracy is needed. Both approaches include the development of critical thinking about degrowth, the circular economy and conventional stakeholder theory to include non-human stakeholders. Using comparative case studies from Northumbria University, the University of Hong Kong and Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, we Dr Simon Smith Engelbert Fellinger Les Tickner and others illustrate how business education can be transformed to address #biodiversity loss, providing theoretical guidance and practical recommendations to academic practitioners and future business leaders. Education for Sustainable Development Education for Sustainability Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) Sustainable Development Solutions Network UN SDG Action Campaign #BuildBackBiodiversity #BiodiversityDay #AgreementToAction #KMBGF #30x30 #ActionDecade #Post2020 #Biodiversity #SDG

The 'Green Lungs' Project🌳 São Paulo: Schools make 100s mini-forests 🇧🇷 Circular Economy in action in megalopolis São Paulo. Brazilian NGO Formigas de Embaúba's is pioneering a circular economy approach by planting native mini-forests in public schools. Collaborating with MapBiomas for satellite mapping, they identify optimal locations for these green oases. An approach that guarantees - long-lasting - impact: ➡️ Educating the next gen conservationists. ➡️ Working with students 2-14 years old. ➡️ Taking care of local tree species. ➡️ Creating an open-air classroom. How is this circular? 1️⃣ Ecosystems restored: By planting native species, Formigas de Embaúba restores local biodiversity, creating habitats for wildlife and improving ecological balance. This not only enhances urban green spaces but also contributes to global biodiversity conservation efforts. 2️⃣ Community engaged: The project involves students and teachers in the planting process, fostering environmental stewardship and education. This participatory approach ensures that the benefits of reforestation are deeply rooted in the community, promoting long-term sustainability. 3️⃣ Economic Benefits achieved: The mini-forests provide ecosystem services such as air purification, temperature regulation, and flood prevention, which can reduce municipal costs related to health and infrastructure. Additionally, the project creates green jobs and stimulates local economies. 🫵🏽The students are clear: "This work makes you plant even more!" Thanks to all of you who change the world #circulareconomy #zerowaste PS: Sign up to the 'Circletter' for more actionable circular tipps.

During my undergraduate days as a biotechnologist, I was deeply passionate about making a positive impact on the environment. One memorable experience was organizing and participating in a tree planting event on our campus. The initiative aimed to enhance the greenery of our surroundings and contribute to combating climate change. As a biotechnologist, I understood the importance of trees in absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen, thereby mitigating the effects of greenhouse gases. The process of planting a tree was not just about digging a hole and placing a sapling; it was a symbolic act of nurturing life and fostering a sustainable future. From selecting the right species of trees to ensuring proper planting techniques, my fellow biotechnologists and I meticulously planned every step of the tree planting process. We collaborated with faculty members, campus staff, and fellow students to garner support for our initiative. On the day of the event, there was a palpable sense of excitement and camaraderie as we gathered with shovels and saplings in hand. Working together, we dug holes, carefully placed the saplings, and gently covered their roots with soil. With each tree planted, we felt a sense of pride and accomplishment, knowing that we were contributing to a greener, healthier environment. As the years passed, I watched with joy as the trees we planted grew taller and stronger, providing shade, habitat for wildlife, and cleaner air for generations to come. The experience of planting a tree on our campus left a lasting impression on me, reinforcing my commitment to environmental stewardship and inspiring me to continue making a difference in the world, one tree at a time. #PlantingTrees #EnvironmentalConservation #SustainableLiving #GreenInitiative #ClimateAction #SaveThePlanet #TreePlanting #EcoFriendly #GoGreen #NatureConservation #GreenLiving #Biodiversity #CarbonCapture #CleanAir #HealthyEnvironment #EarthDayEveryDay #Sustainability #ActOnClimate #GreenSpaces #ForestRestoration #ClimateChangeSolution

Jenny Andersson and those at Really Regenerative CIC are modeling what it means to dance with emergence, which is absolutely what is needed as we navigate through this metacrisis. Daniel Christian Wahl emphasizes that our bioregional work must be contextual, that how we live and what is needed in our places is different for every place. For me this means coming home... coming home in ourselves into a knowing we are intricately and inextricably connected to all of life and specifically connected to the place where we live. Living in alignment with (and as) life means coming home in ourselves, with each other, and with all of life. And as we do this, we let life lead us and we become co-creators with life in our places... this is the dance of emergence.

Great new paper on biodiversity offsets, reminding us that we need to decide what matters most: conserving/restoring nature near where adverse impacts occur, or generating benefits to people locally, or improving access to nature for disadvantaged groups, or maximising biodiversity outcomes more widely, or minimising costs. These different goals are not always compatible. Choices must be made but we can certainly improve on current practice.

📖 Check out our latest update on our Biochar project. Our sustainability intern, Jazlyn Benitez, takes us on a several-month journey with forest restoration, biochar, and invasive species removal. Read more 👇 https://lnkd.in/e-QRZ3Sn #Sutainability #ForestRestoration #blog ##EnvironmentalEducation #Biochar

We shared once the Cambridge short course 'Key Essentials: The Global Biodiversity Framework, Sustainable Development, and the Law' and are now happy to present feedback from three students from our community who participated in it. 👱♂️Artem says: The course is very specialized, aimed at practitioners who will be involved in developing legal norms for biodiversity in their country, in my opinion. For ecologists, it might be boring because it mainly deals with documents. 👱♀️Xenia says: I overall like it – a good general overview with the main highlights at the beginning of each section, and all materials provided through links, so there's no need to search for anything. However, fitting it into my schedule is challenging because there's a lot of reading material, and the course is only two weeks long. 👱♀️ Liubov says: The approval for my application to the Cambridge course came on the day the course started, just an hour before the introductory Zoom meeting with the participants. It was very strange and stressful because I didn't have time to complete the preparatory module. I am currently choosing courses to enhance my portfolio, practice environmental English, and refresh my knowledge of sustainable development theory. The application was not difficult and contained a few questions like "Why do you want to take this course?" The material turned out to be very specialized. It was difficult to dive into the texts of numerous conventions and protocols. The instructors' English was excellent, there were subtitles, additional PDFs with materials, and questions and tests for review. Overall, it was well-organized for a short introductory course. I'm not entirely sure if this course will help me in my career; a course from the UN seems more suitable for me. However, I did learn about conventions and protocols related to biodiversity and obtained up-to-date information (the course was created in 2023, if I understood correctly). 🌱 Share your stories in ✓ Opportunities in Sustainability to help people from the community. Green hugs!