Conservation

  • Learning to See with Ancient Eyes: Reflections on Climate, Education and Social Change by Ben Rawlence

    Look at the Black Mountains – those green and pleasant hills! What do you see? Where are the trees? Where…

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  • Reading, Writing and Publishing in a Changing Climate

    This post is from a talk given by Ben Rawlence at The Hurst, March 16 2023. It covers ground many of…

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  • Newsletter | The Solidarity Issue (April 2023)

    A time of fertility and growth, and here in the Black Mountains, a time of unusual frost. With 2023 set…

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  • Living in Circles

    BMC’s vocational programme is now open for applications. We have developed our first offering in further education around three ‘future’…

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  • Welsh Farming – All Change?

    Havard Prosser, BMC Trustee and former Chief Environmental Adviser at Welsh Government explores the future of Welsh Farming.  We have reached…

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  • #Futuregen – Lessons from a small country, by Jane Davidson.

    Why we must put Future Generations at the heart of all policy thinking – in the interests of us all.…

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  • Soil – the lifeblood of the planet

    Octavia Hopwood is a microbiologist, soil ecologist, and environmental presenter.  Her guest blog is about soil, its phenomenal properties, the…

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  • Which way will the world flip after Covid-19?

    Colin Tudge hopes for an Agrarian Renaissance Biologist, writer and co-founder of the Campaign for Real Farming, Colin Tudge is…

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  • Regenerative Horticulture for a sustainable future. By Rashid Benoy

    For the past few months, I have been doing the groundwork with the BMC team to prepare for the planned…

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  • Sue Pritchard on sustainable farming, food and Black Mountains College

    Sue Pritchard, Director of the RSA Food, Farming & Countryside Commission, talks about sustainable food, farming and land use, and how…

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  • Why Black Mountains College is Important: An Artist’s Perspective. By Heather Ackroyd

    Heather Ackroyd, of artist duo Ackroyd and Harvey tells us in her video how BMC will be an important driver…

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  • Why Black Mountains College is Important: A Conservationist’s Perspective. By Sir Tim Smit KBE

    Black Mountains College is possibly the UK’s most exciting and important development in education.  It draws together strands of humanities…

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