Walks / Talks / Collaborations / Exhibitions / Conservation / Writing
Walks
2026
The Harvest Walk: Poverty and Plenty in Wainsgate’s Landscape
HARVEST at Wainsgate
Withens Clough Guided Heritage Walk
Landscapes for Water/Yorkshire Water Rangers
Guided Heritage Detective Walk: Colden Clough and Lumb Bank
Heritage Detectives project
Lumb Bank
Friends of Colden Clough
High Hirst Local History Walk
Hebden Royd Town Council
High Hirst Woodmeadow
The High Sun Walk
SUMMER at Wainsgate
Springwatch at Wainsgate: Noticing the Turn of the Year
SPRING at Wainsgate
2025
Walking Wainsgate’s Landscape
Building Wainsgate: Heritage Open Day
High Hirst History Walk
Hebden Royd Town Council
High Hirst Woodmeadow
2024
Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve
Northern Broadsides
Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve
Hebden Bridge Arts
Resurgence: A Walk Towards Restored Landscapes of the Future
Hebden Bridge Arts
Field Lane Community Centre, Rastrick
Tod College, Todmorden
The Man Who Planted Trees
Hebden Bridge Arts
Project Colt, Elland
Northlight Studios, Hebden Bridge
2023
A Philosophical Ramble to Crimsworth Dean
South Pennines Walk and Ride Festival
Current Climate: A Stride Upstream
Hebden Bridge Arts
Narratives in the Landscape: A Walk in Search of Common Ground
Hebden Bridge Arts
Field Studies: A Philosophical Ramble to Wainsgate Chapel
Hebden Bridge Arts
2022
Past and Future Landscape Stories
Hebden Bridge Arts
Water Power in Nutclough
Pennine Heritage
2018
Nature and the Good Life
Todwalkers
Talks
2026
A Ground That Remembers
Peat Appreciation Society/Bradford Culture Company
Everybody Arts, Halifax
A Ground That Remembers
National Trust/Peat Appreciation Society
Gibson Mill, National Trust Hardcastle Crags
Withens Clough: A Landscape Through Time
Landscapes for Water
St John’s in the Wilderness Church, Cragg Vale
2025
Echoes from the Meadows: A History of High Hirst
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
Philosophy Everywhere
Royal Institute of Philosophy
University of Birmingham
Cragg Vale’s Little Hill Farms
Cragg Vale History Group
2024
The History of Farming in the Upper Calder Valley
Save Our Soil
Calderdale Ecological Land Co-op
Hebden Bridge Town Hall
The History of Hay Meadows
Hebden Royd Town Council
High Hirst Woodmeadow
Wildflowers of the Hay Meadows
Hebden Bridge Arts
Tod College, Todmorden
2013
Nature and the Good Life
Todmorden U3A
Collaborations
2026
Field Recording Workshop
PeatZine Soundwalk project
Heritage Detectives: Reading the Living Landscape of Colden Clough and Lumb Bank
Workshops, guided walk, online heritage trail
Collaboration with:
Lumb Bank
Friends of Colden Clough
The Dawn Chorus
Wainsgate Chapel
PeatZine (zine text)
PeatZine project
2025
Sharing Moor Stories
Heritage workshops
Collaboration with:
PeatZine project
Mytholmroyd Community Centre
Tod College
Hidden in the Landscape
Environmental history
Collaboration with:
Northern Broadsides
Sound artist Jo Kennedy
2024
Acting for the Planet
Walk and workshop
Collaboration with:
Northern Broadsides
Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve
Tree Nursery Day
Walk and facilitation
Collaboration with:
St Augustine’s Centre
Hebden Bridge Arts
Climate Conversations
Climate engagement
Collaboration with:
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum
2023
Climate Conversations
Climate workshops
Collaboration with:
Hebden Royd Town Council
Sand In Your Eye
Reading
Launch event for A Year in the Calder Valley
Collaboration with:
Simon Zonenblick
Hebden Bridge Library
Wild Child: A Children’s Nature Walk
Walk design and facilitation
Collaboration with:
Nature writer Dara McAnulty
Journey Into the Landscape
Walk design and facilitation
Collaboration with:
Nature writer Mark Cocker
Sound Mapping
Walk design and facilitation
Collaboration with:
Sound artist Linda O’Keefe
While I’m Riding My Bike
Environmental workshop and cycling facilitation
Collaboration with:
Filmmaker Alex Harwood
Time Out: Healthy Minds Calderdale
Bikeability
Cargodale
West Yorkshire Police
Ash Green Community Primary School
The Day We Saved the World / Earth News
Workshop and nature walk
Collaboration with:
Filmmaker Jenny Longworth
Calderdale Young Carers
Bodies of Water
Environmental facilitation
Collaboration with:
Musician Delia Stevens
2022
Reclamation
Workshop and text for online book
Mytholmroyd Community Centre
Collaboration with:
Photographer Gerard Liston
Climate Conversations
Climate workshops
Collaboration with:
Hebden Royd Town Council
Sand In Your Eye
2019–2020
The Philosophy Foundation
Philosophy workshops in primary schools
Exhibitions
2026
Springtime in the Calder Valley
Collaboration with:
Artist Jo Gorner
Wainsgate Chapel
A Ground That Remembers (poem)
Peat Appreciation Society
Hebden Bridge Town Hall
Gibson Mill, National Trust Hardcastle Crags
2025
Moor Stories (exhibition writing)
PeatZine project
The Local Motive, Mytholmroyd
Words Across the Moors (poems, with photographer Clive Horsman)
Mill Town Arts
Hebden Bridge Town Hall
2024
Hidden Harvest (poem)
Ancient Underlands
Luddendenfoot Community Centre
Gibson Mill, National Trust Hardcastle Crags
Conservation
Forus Tree – tree planting
High Hirst Woodmeadow – scything, hamaking
Calder Rivers Trust – tree planting, Himalayan balsam removal
Slow the Flow – natural flood management, tree planting
Treesponsibility – tree planting
National Trust – Himalayan balsam removal
Calderdale Bird Conservation Group – sand martin nest construction
BEAT Community Orchard – orchard management
Hebden Bridge Walkers Action – walk checking
British Trust for Ornithology – woodcock survey
The Conservation Volunteers – tree planting
Trees for Life – leading volunteer groups (1996–2011)
Selected Writing
2026
Heritage Detectives: Reading the Living Landscape of Colden Clough and Lumb Bank
For Lumb Bank and Friends of Colden Clough
Withens Clough: A Landscape Through Time
For Landscapes for Water (National Trust and Yorkshire Water)
Moor Stories: The History of Langfield Common and Erringden Moor
For PeatZine project
2025
On the Green Hill
Six landscape journal entries
A History of High Hirst
For:
Hebden Bridge Local History Society
High Hirst Woodmeadow
A History of Farming in the Upper Calder Valley
For Calderdale Ecological Land Trust
Cromwell Bottom Nature Reserve
For Northern Broadsides
Cragg Vale’s Little Hill Farms
For Cragg Vale History Group
Hidden Harvest
For Ancient Underlands
The School Run
Essay on walking with my son
2024
A Wide Singing Sky
Twelve landscape journal entries
Philosophy of Landscape: Narrative, Ethics, Welfare
For Hebden Bridge Arts
Even the Longest Journey
Essay on walking with my son
2023
The Lay of the Land
Fifty-two weekly landscape journal entries
2022
Field Studies
Twelve landscape journal entries
Past and Future Landscape Stories
For Hebden Bridge Arts
2021
A Circling Year
Twelve monthly landscape journal entries
2020
Spring Nature Diary
For AHRC / Land Lines / National Trust
2019
Weaving Through the Calder Valley
For CPRE Ways of Seeing magazine
Slowing the Flow
For Slow the Flow
2016
Gathered Grounds
Twelve monthly landscape journal entries
Academic Publications (2008–2020)
2020
‘The extended Value-Belief-Norm theory predicts committed action for nature and biodiversity in Europe’
Environmental Impact Assessment Review
(Co-author)
‘Motivations to act for the protection of nature biodiversity and the environment: A matter of “Significance”’
Environment and Behavior
(Co-author)
2019
‘Inconsequential contributions to global environmental problems: A virtue ethics account’
Journal of Agricultural and Environmental Ethics
2018
‘Relational value, partnership, eudaimonia: A review’
Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
(Co-author)
‘What makes you a “hero” for nature?: Socio-psychological profiling of leaders committed to nature and biodiversity protection across seven EU countries’
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
(Co-author)
‘Pavan Sukhdev’
Key Thinkers on the Environment
London: Routledge
(Co-authored with Stijn Neuteleers)
2017
‘Motivations for committed nature conservation in Europe’
Environmental Conservation
(Co-author)
‘The missing pillar: Eudemonic values in the justification of nature conservation’
Journal of Environmental Planning and Management
(Co-author)
2016
‘Combining internal and external motivations in multi-actor governance arrangements for biodiversity and ecosystem services’
Environmental Science & Policy
(Co-author)
‘Consumption and Happiness’
Oxford Handbook of Environmental Political Theory
Oxford: Oxford University Press.
(Co-authored with John O’Neill)
2014
‘Ecological Restoration, Cultural Landscapes and the Intergenerational Narrative’
Old World and New World Perspectives on Environmental Philosophy: Transatlantic Conversations
London: Springer
2013
‘Economic Environmental Valuation: An Analysis of Limitations and Alternatives’
BIOMOT
(First author)
2012
‘Consumption, Environment and Ethics: An Analysis of Moral and Welfare Arguments for Reducing Personal Consumption’
PhD thesis, University of Manchester.
2011
‘Ecominimalism as a Virtue’
Environmental Ethics
(Co-authored with Dan Firth and Dave Littlewood)
2009
‘Virtue Ethics, Biodiversity and Environmental Education’
Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Education. Oxford: Inter-Disciplinary Press
2008
‘Native Species, Human Communities and Cultural Relationships’
Environmental Values
Academic Presentations (2007–2017)
2017
‘A Virtue Ethics Account of the Obligation to Unilaterally Reduce Personal Consumption’
MANCEPT Workshops, University of Manchester
2016
‘What can philosophy say about environmental valuation and decision making?’
Artists, Farmers and Philosophers conference
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle
‘De Re Valuing and Human Well-being’
Joint Session of the Aristotelian Society and the Mind Association
Cardiff University
‘Nature, Human Well-being and Valuing Attitudes’
Birmingham University Philosophy Society
2015
‘Nature, Happiness and the Ethics of Leaving Your Mobile Phone Charger Switched On’
Loreto College, Manchester
‘The Future of Upland Farming: Ecosystem Services and Cultural Value’
Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, Radboud University, The Netherlands
2014
‘The Future of Upland Farming: Ecosystem Services and Cultural Value’
Natural Environments and Cultural Services AHRC-BIOMOT Workshop
Durham University
2013
‘Consumption, Environment and Ethics’
Philosophy in the North West
University of Manchester
‘Rejecting the Functionalism of Ecosystem Services’
International Society for Environmental Ethics Annual Meeting
University of East Anglia
‘Environment, Consumption and the Problem of Inconsequentialism’
Department of Politics, Philosophy and Religion, Lancaster University
2011
‘Multidimensionalism, Overconsumption and Human Well-being’
Open Minds VI
University of Manchester
‘The Practice of Ecological Restoration’
International Society for Environmental Ethics Annual Meeting
Radboud University, The Netherlands
2010
‘The Overconsumption Claim: Human Well-being in a Consumer Society’
Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester
‘The Problem of Inconsequentialism’
Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester
2009
‘The Restoration of Cultural Ecosystems’
Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven, Belgium
‘Virtue Ethics, Biodiversity and Environmental Education’
Global Conference on Environmental Justice and Global Citizenship
Oxford University
‘What Do We Consume?’
Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester
2008
‘Moralism and Environmental Aesthetics’
Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester
2007
‘Benevolent Restoration and Environmental Virtue’
Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference
Royal Geographical Society, London
‘Eco-friendly Aesthetics’
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University
‘Biodiversity, Transformative Value and Environmental Virtue’
Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Lancaster University
