somethingswearegettingright
Dr. Pete Jeffs ??
Helping horses & humans holistically / The Healing Circle / Wilding for Horses - Rewilding Britain Network / Western European Atlantic Coastal BioRegion / Holistic biology educator / Children's author.
Our first newsletter offers a brief digest of 5 inspirational posts from this week's environmental news. There is so much that is positive that is taking place – some things we are getting right!
What we are doing needs to be celebrated. We need to remember all the thousands of projects and successes, large and small. It may be wilding a hedge, or planting a pond. It might be a more ambitious re-introduction of a lost species. Whatever it is, it is part of the momentum that we are creating, with thousands upon thousands of committed individuals all over the world. This weekly space is to serve two goals. One is highlighting a handful of amazing projects that I have found inspiring. And the other is helping to remind us that we are making progress together in this collective endeavor for our planet.
In our first edition: Celebrating the Festival of Lughnasadh / The Wild Oysters Project / The Community and Rainforests Engagement Weeks / 6-13 October, 2023 / Glenuig, Moidart from Trees for hope / ?The company SSE is completing its work on the Dogger Bank windfarm in the North Sea off Yorkshire / Reforesting the forest with Jonathan Watts and Eliane Brum, in their smallholding in the Amazon rainforest.
If you have projects or successes that you would like highlighted, please reach out to me. My aim is to produce one short newsletter each week – highlighting five inspirational stories with links for those who wish to read more.
Please take action by subscribing to somethingswearegettingright. There is so much amazing environmental work going on out there and this deserves to be celebrated! This week. Next week. And every week!
Monday 31st July
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Festival of Lughnasadh. The Festival of Lughnasadh marks the beginning of the harvest season. Lughnasadh is named after the Celtic god Lugh, who was revered as a patron of skill, craft, and abundance. Historically, the Festival of Lughnasadh has always been a time of great importance for the Celtic peoples. A time to gather the first fruits of the harvest, and to offer thanks for their bounty. It is a time of community gatherings, feasting, and competitions, including games, horse races, and athletic contests. Symbolically, Lughnasadh represents the cycle of life, death, and rebirth – the transition from the growth and abundance of summer to the waning of the sun and the approaching darkness of winter. It is a time to honor the harvest and acknowledge the great cycle of life.
Today, Lughnasadh is celebrated in many ways: gathering to share food and drink, making crafts and decorations, and participating in activities and rituals including traditional games such as the tug-o'-war and sack races. One popular tradition associated with Lughnasadh is the baking of bread, which represents the harvest of grain and the skill of baking. The first loaf is often shared with friends and family, and some consider that it has special powers to promote health, fertility, and abundance.
Below is a link to my own Healing Circle. I sit with horses and humans and we are celebrating Lughnasadh with our own energy exchange work. We have been holding Circles now for over three years, this is our Fourteenth! Go us!
Tuesday 1st August
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The Wild Oysters Project. Fantastic news! Although the native or common oyster,?Ostrea edulis, has been almost wiped out in UK waters by overfishing and by trawling the seabed, good news is at hand.
The?Wild Oysters Project?is now trying to rescue the native species by recreating the oyster reefs that also used to provide excellent habitats for dozens of other sea creatures. Scientists believe that by hanging cages full of adult breeding oysters near suitable seabed containing masses of old shells, which the oysters need to form new reefs, colonies will form naturally.
It is clear that by working one species at a time, so many focus and action groups are taking on these issues and finding innovative solutions.
Wednesday 2 August
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Community and Rainforests Engagement Weeks (CREW) / 6-13 October, 2023 / Glenuig, Moidart?
Trees for Hope will be engaging with the community in Glenuig, Moidart to revive the Atlantic Rainforests.?A tiny remnant of the ancient oak woodland still stands here.?However this fragile ecosystem is endangered by three threats : overgrazing deer, rhododendron invasion, community disengagement.?To catalyse the return of the Atlantic Rainforests, and to embody a rewilding project, Trees for Hope is engaging with the community to assist in their efforts to create the conditions for a vibrant ecosystem to exist.
Thursday 3 August:
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Turbines not oil! The energy company?SSE?expects to install the first of the turbines, which stand at almost twice the height of the London Eye, about 80 miles off the coast by the weekend. Once complete the ￡9bn Dogger Bank windfarm will be more than double the size of the next largest offshore windfarm operating today and be capable of powering the equivalent of 6m British homes. Since there are currently about 28 million homes in the UK, this wind farm is will be capable of supplying 20% of British homes with electricity. In 2022, wind produced 27% of UK electricity, only second to gas, which produced 38% according to the UK National Grid. It is clear that despite the current ruckus over the new oil and gas licenses, the UK is doing good work in increasing the size of its wind-electric park. It is of course beyond outrageous that the investment in North Sea Oil will not be transferred to wind development and other renewables. Clearly, there are factors other than environmental logic at play. Nonetheless, this news is something to celebrate and it is good to see some considerable progress.
Friday 4 August:
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Reforest the forest. Powerful lessons and an illuminating article from a British couple – Jonathan Watts and his wife, Eliane Brum, – who work on their tiny plot of land in Altamira, Brazil, with the aim of restoring the forest. Four years ago, they put down a first installment on half a hectare (1.2 acres) of pasture in Altamira which had been degraded by fire and years of grazing cattle. It is in a small community of people who have been trying to regenerate the land, with some good results.
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This is our #1 newsletter. I will be developing this over the weeks and months to come. If you have positive impact projects you would like me to highlight, please DM me.
Our aim is to remind us that SOMETHINGSWEAREGETTINGRIGHT!
If you have enjoyed these brief notes please let me know in the comments, and please share the newsletter. I hope we can together build a lot of positive impact through this newsletter, and send encouragement to all those who are already doing so much to protect our planet and support the plants and animals with whom we share this marvelous earth.
Thanks so much for reading and for your support.
Aho!
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1 年Thank you Peter Jeffs for your newsletter. We are bombarded with the things that are wrong (and there are many for sure). Thank you for shining a light on people and the projects that are good! We need them and let's not be overshadowed by the bad news all the time