In late February 2025, Jake Randall and Tolmeia Gregory started to release ‘Lights, Climate, Action’, a podcast series discussing film and TV through a climate lens. Curious about the production process we came up with 10 questions for the hosts. We hoped to build a better understanding of the use of cinema as a conduit for lasting climate consciousness and wanted to explore the mixed landscape of film and TV engaging with climate breakdown.

In late November, I met with Jed Dutton to write a story for the pollen project. The basis of this article is a write-up of the conversation we recorded in an Edinburgh bar.  Jed is the founder of an Edinburgh organisation called The Big Green - a staple of the city’s independent dance and clubbing scene. I’ve always been intrigued by its roots and growth and wanted to speak to Jed to understand the story behind the twist in the Big Green business model which diverts ticket costs to local eco charities and social initiatives like neighbourhood food banks. 

Interview and article by Lucy Gavaghan.

This short essay is interested in the idea of liberty, specifically individual liberty. The notion that freedom (and its correlating responsibility) is expressed and possessed by a single individual. Liberty is a key feature of legal personality. Human rights and (corporate) law protect various types of freedoms that are expressed by an individual. This notion that liberty can be atomised and placed in a single individual is essential to our current understanding of legal personality.

Reaching a hand across time and space, the giant and ancient power of these hills is to offer the ultimate perspective on our own fallibility. To show what is most important to value and protect. To make man-made fabrications – the worship of capital, the exploitation and descruction of nature, and fuelling all, our suicidal egocentrism – pale in the light of it. I wonder, if our laws were made in such a place, would stubborn minds finally be made to find their enlightenment - to set us on a different course.

Legal definitions are extremely important. They set the rules of the game and draw the line that separates the players from the pieces. For example, any definition of legal personality has two main roles. First, it determines which beings can access the legal system as a person. Second, it outlines the rights and responsibilities of those legal persons within that legal system. 

The woods do not exist for humans to pass judgement upon their beauty. They are not desolate until the moment we enter them nor abandoned on our departure. When there, we are with all of that non-human life. The woods taught me about the opposite of loneliness and I am now accepting the fact that I will never be able to, nor need I, force how that feels or what that means into words alone.