Overview
A University of Cambridge environment & AI academic, and social media climate educator (@ClimateInColour)'s passionate argument for how ordinary people of colour doing extraordinary things can pave the way towards a better future for us all. A lyrical, deeply researched and original work of narrative non-fiction that examines 6 key pillars- RAGE, IMAGINATION, INNOVATION, THEORY, HEALING and CARE to showcase the wonder of the natural world and inspire us to view climate action as a shared goal rather than individual burden. University of Cambridge AI, environmental justice and bioacoustics researcher and educator Joycelyn Longdon reveals how extraordinary acts from ordinary people of colour - from the US to the UK, Brazil to Iran, Ghana to Ethiopia - paved the way for today's technological advances. Merging ancient wisdom with modern tools, she invites readers to embrace new roles in the fight for sustainability beyond activist and observer, guiding us back to our roots.
Full Product Details
Author: Joycelyn Longdon
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Imprint: Square Peg
Dimensions:
Width: 14.30cm
, Height: 3.10cm
, Length: 22.20cm
Weight: 0.455kg
ISBN: 9781529902662
ISBN 10: 1529902665
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 17 April 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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General
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
A truly original journey to the root of our collective problems that offers new hope for how to solve them. Reading it is a balm. -- Afua Hirsch Joycelyn Longdon's work is always rigorously researched, justice-centred and transformative. * Mikaela Loach * Joycelyn Longdon's Natural Connection asks us to rededicate ourselves to the fight against climate change, and to understand environmental action in its proper, global context. Her fascinating case studies and thought-provoking interviews challenge us to look at climate change anew, and come back to the fight reenergised. * Cal Flyn * 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
Author Information
Joycelyn Longdon is an award-winning environmental justice technologist, writer and communicator. Through her unique approach to environmental and science communication she has spoken to a variety of platforms such as Meta, The United Nations Geneva Dialogues, Greenpeace & Channel 4. Joycelyn is a TEDx Alumni, 2022's winner of the Emerging Designer London Design Medal, featured in British Vogue's December 2023 'Forces for Change' Issue, was one of Pique Action and Harvard Chan C-CHANGE's 2024 Climate Creators to Watch and a Country and Town House's Future Icons Power People 2024.
