Author Profile: Russell Warfield

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Building economy and ecology •

Issue 355 • March/April 2026 • Hope as a radical act > Reviews

Review of Radical Abundance: How to Win a Green, Democratic Future 

Time for hopeful pessimism •

Issue 353 • November/December 2025 • The gift of water > Reviews

Review of Or Something Worse: Why We Need to Disrupt the Climate Transition

Forecast a raw deal •

Issue 352 • September/October 2025 • Choosing peace > Reviews

Review of Climate Injustice: Why We Need to Fight Global Inequality to Combat Climate Change

A much-needed pep talk? •

Issue 351 • July/August 2025 • Ocean Glories II > Reviews

Review of Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference

Where should we direct our action? •

Issue 350 • May/June 2025 • Unexpected pollinators > Reviews

Review of Climate Radicals: Why Our Environmental Politics Isn’t Working

(Anti-)Natalism? •

Issue 348 • January/February 2025 • The gift of life > Reviews

Review of No One Left: Why the World Needs More Children and Seven Children: Inequality and Britain's Next Generation

A bird’s-eye view of a novel concept for cities •

Issue 346 • September/October 2024 • Nature, our teacher > Reviews

Review of The 15-Minute City: A Solution to Saving Our Time and Our Planet

Private sufficiency and public luxury •

Issue 345 • July/August 2024 • Ocean glories > Reviews

Review of The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism

We're in this Together •

Issue 342 • January/February 2024 • Hope and enchantment > Reviews

Review of It’s Not Just You: How to Navigate Eco-Anxiety and the Climate Crisis

Hard to Breathe •

Issue 340 • September/October 2023 • Nature Positive Impact > Reviews

Review of Breathe: Tackling the Climate Emergency

We should all be carers •

Issue 339 • July/August 2023 • Finding kinship > Kinship

One way or another caring will affect us all

Within the Climate Emergency •

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 • Immersion > Reviews

Review of The Climate Book

The Price of Net Zero •

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 • Positive energy > Ecologist

Dieter Helm on energy and the climate crisis

An Ecological Awakening •

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 • Trouble brewing > Reviews

Review of The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism

Planning for the Planet •

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 • Power to the peaceful > Reviews

Review of Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics

Reimagining What's Possible •

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 • Living cities > Reviews

Review of Seven Ways to Change the World: How to Fix the Most Pressing Problems We Face, and Go Big: How to Fix Our World

Green Recovery - On the Money •

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 • Building back hope > Undercurrents > Green Recovery

A new report 'The Inequality Virus' calls for lasting structural change

Home Alone •

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 • Building back hope > Reviews

Review of The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart

The End of Neoliberalism… So, What Next? •

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 • Watershed moment > Ecologist

Historian Rutger Bregman shares his optimism

Kindness Amid Crisis •

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 • Resilience > Reviews

Review of Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis

Acting for the Future •

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 • Lessons for the future > Keynotes

Interview with Jane Davidson about a groundbreaking piece of legislation in Wales

All is One •

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 • Recovery time > Reviews

Review of The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters

Clearing the Airways •

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 • Stubborn optimism > Ecologist

Celebrating a ground-breaking court ruling

Eating for a Cooler Planet •

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 • A lot on our plates > Reviews

Review of We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast

The Next Evolutionary Step •

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 • Where do we grow from here? > Reviews

Review of Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

Let's Get Political •

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 • Listen up! > Reviews

Review of A Bright Future: How Some Countries have Solved Climate Change and Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the World

The Final Final Countdown •

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 • Pathways > Reviews

Review of The End of the End of the Earth

The Medium is the Message •

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 • Regeneration > Reviews

Review of Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

The Definition of Happiness •

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 • Courage > Undercurrents

An interview with feminist academic and author Lynne Segal

Mind the Gap •

Issue 311 • November/December 2018 • All Is One > Reviews

Review of Peak Inequality: Britain's Ticking Time Bomb

Growing Pains •

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 • The Food Issue > Reviews

Review of The Growth Delusion

War and Order •

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 • Working Together > Reviews

Review of Voices For Peace: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance

The Alternative? We Need New Stories •

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 • A Song for Spring > Reviews

Review of Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis

Playing The Trump Card •

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 • Light in Dark Days > Reviews

Review of No Is Not Enough

Heroes For Nature •

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 • Together We Are Stronger > Undercurrents

Inspirational environmental campaigners

In the Ending Are the Words •

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 • Together We Are Stronger > Reviews

Review of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist

Better Together? •

Issue 301 • March/April 2017 • Manifesto for A Green Mind > Reviews

Review of The Alternative: Towards a New progressive Politics

Still Spinning •

Issue 299 • November/December 2016 • Brave New Worlds > Reviews

Review of Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society

Inequality Threatens the Planet •

Issue 297 • July/August 2016 • Natural Healing > Ecologist

Consumption patterns fuel climate change

Slashing, Burning, Learning? •

Issue 296 • May/June 2016 • Days of Hope > Reviews

Review of Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Dead Reckoning •

Issue 295 • March/April 2016 • Walking Back to Happiness > Reviews

Review of Death and the Afterlife, and Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination

Farm Campaigner Breaking New Ground •

Issue 294 • January/February 2016 • A Food Renaissance > Ecologist

An interview with Helen Browning, Chief Executive of the Soil Association

From Feathers to Changing Values •

Issue 291 • July/August 2015 • Climate: It is a moral issue > Ecologist

The vision of the RSPB

Keeping the Environment in Focus •

Issue 289 • March/April 2015 • We Need New Stories > Ecologist

A profile of the Green Alliance

Pantomime, But No Laughing Matter •

Issue 289 • March/April 2015 • We Need New Stories > Reviews

Review of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Speaking Up For Fish and Bees •

Issue 288 • January/February 2015 • Power to the People > Reviews

Review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat

Stories Change; The Activism Continues •

Issue 287 • November/December 2014 • The Future We Want and the One We Can't Afford > Ecologist

The head of Greenpeace explains why online eco-protest is just part of the future

Conservatives and the Environment •

Issue 284 • May/June 2014 • Ecological Feminism > Ecologist

An interview with Roger Scruton

A Call to Pragmatism •

Issue 282 • January/February 2014 • Benevolent Universe > Undercurrents

Philosopher and author John Gray on environmentalism, Nature and the global ecosystem

A Sense of Vocation •

Issue 279 • July/August 2013 • The Ecozoic Era > Reviews

Review of The Case for Working with Your Hands: Or Why Office Work is Bad for Us and Fixing Things Feels Good