Natural Connection: What indigenous wisdom & marginalised communities teach us about environmental action

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A University of Cambridge environment & AI academic, and social media climate educator (@ClimateInColour)'s passionate argument for how ordinary people of colour past and present doing extraordinary things can pave the way towards a better future for us all. In this lyrical, deeply researched and original work of narrative non-fiction, Joycelyn Longdon merges ancient wisdom with modern technology. Examining 6 key pillars, RAGE, IMAGINATION, INNOVATION, THEORY, HEALING, CARE, Joycelyn Longdon guides the reader towards approaching the natural world with awe, inspiring us to view climate action as a shared goal rather than an individual burden. Natural Connection brings together lessons from people of colour from the US to the UK, Brazil to India and Nigeria to Iran to showcase how the extraordinary acts of ordinary people have paved the way for today's rapid technological changes. This book inspires readers everywhere to better understand how we can all take up new roles in the fight for sustainability beyond the activist and observer binary, and find our way back towards our roots.

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Urgent, profound and compassionate... Natural Connection brings us to imagine our relations with nature otherwise. Wisely, patiently, it opens and holds space in which radically rooted change might flourish. -- Robert Macfarlane
Joycelyn Longdon is an urgent and desperately needed new voice. This is a wonderful book. -- Katherine May

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Joycelyn Longdon is a climate researcher at Cambridge University on the Artificial Intelligence For Environmental Risk (AI4ER) Programme researching the applications of AI to the climate emergency. She is also the founder of @ClimateInColour, an online education platform and community for the climate curious, making climate conversation more accessible and diverse. As an educator, Longdon has given talks on climate justice, climate colonialism, activism, creativity and systems change for the United Nations Geneva Dialogues, Harvard University, COP27, Channel 4, Cheltenham Science Festival, Oxford University, The National Lottery, The Design Council and The Wellcome Collection. Joycelyn was the climate columnist at award-winning media company Gal-Dem and is a regular climate contributor on the Sky News daily climate show.