You don’t need to travel far to find adventure – it’s right here, in your own community. In my latest talk, I challenge you to embrace local wildness and take ownership of the environmental problems we face:

Scouts embrace rewilding to connect UK teenagers with nature

This talk is an ode to slowing down, a celebration of curiosity and time outdoors, as well as a rallying cry to protect the wild places on our doorstep.

Traveling makes men wiser, but less happy. – Travel advice from Thomas Jefferson:

The Cycle Touring Festival is on this weekend, and there's lots of cool talks you can Zoom into for inspiration and advice:

We’re excited to be running our Wild Writing Weekend in the Black Mountains again. It brings together writers to share their stories, walk in the mountains, sit around the campfire, jump in the river, eat fabulous food – and of course write, write, write.

Meet the man who took his dog for a walk—around the world

@chrisfitchchris Good luck! You've made me want to live in lots of cool cities now.

A Little Grumble About National Park Cuts

"All that failure is compost for the thing I'm going to grow one day." – Brian Eno

Is there such a thing as ‘responsible trespassing’? This man walked 500 miles—and says yes

25 years ago didn’t seem very long ago to me. Which makes thinking about what tourism will be like in 2050 really un-settling and alarming:

Patagonia’s book, The Future of the Responsible Company, about the lessons they’ve learned from their first 50 years

Particles from vehicle tyre wear are the biggest source of nanoplastic pollution in the high Alps. Mountaineers are now scaling peaks to produce the first global assessment of nanoplastics, which are easily carried around the world by winds.

@2wheels Beatings shall continue until morale improves. (I've cut the passage: it wasn't as funny as I thought it was....)

A good reason to travel (and why I'd love all world leaders to first have to cycle across a continent or two) // A good reason to explore locally and pay attention to nearby nature, wildness and land use: - That we do not know, we cannot understand, therefore we do not value.

@wellbeingpixels That's a lot! Luckily it will peak, plateau, then decline slightly by the end of the century (, unlike most of our other voracious behaviours which show little sign of improvement!

If you run a business, work for a business, or buy stuff from a business, this book is worth a read. 👍