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Episode 1
Telling the story of a community biomimicry project based in and around Garvagh Forest in Co Derry, Northern Ireland. In this first episode we chat to our partners, Nicola Peel and Richard Dawson from Wild Awake about ‘what is biomimicry’ and what value can this practice bring to communities.
Episode 2
Kate Clifford is Director of the Rural Community Network (RCN), a regional voluntary and membership based organisation supporting rural communities across Northern Ireland. In this wide ranging conversation, Kate shares her thoughts about what it means to have and build a home, how bees helped her family connect to neighbours and the rest of the natural world and the challenges of a Just Transition in rural areas.
Episode 3
Alan is a former farmer and a rural innovator committed to improving and sustaining the quality of waterways and habitats. It was at the Wake of Lough Neagh when he noticed a group of women swimming in the Lough that he began to think through what could be put in place to find the sources of pollution and then fix the pollution.
Episode 4
Zoe is founder and Artistic Director of Big Telly Theatre Company. Our conversation spanned the role of the arts in making sense of the edges, place based biomimicry and the practice of grief.
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