Author Profile: Edward Davey

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The giving imperative • Edward Davey

Issue 356 • May/June 2026 • Restorying the world > Ecologist

Reflecting on philanthropy's urgent role in protecting and restoring the natural world and stabilising the climate

Collective determination • Edward Davey

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

Review of Sink or Swim: How the World Needs to Adapt to a Changing Climate

Foraging for hope • Edward Davey

Issue 354 • January/February 2026 • 60 transformative years > Wisdom and wellbeing

Finding peace while looking for fruit and faith in the gloaming

A nuclear-weapon-free future? • Edward Davey

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

Review of Six Minutes to Winter: Nuclear War and How to Avoid It

Reimagining a flourishing future • Edward Davey

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

Review of Transformative Adaptation: Another World Is Still Just Possible

The great food puzzle • Edward Davey

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

Review of Land Smart: How to Give People and Nature the Space to Thrive

Finding hope in troubled times • Edward Davey

Issue 347 • November/December 2024 • Deep listening > The slow read

Finding reasons to stay hopeful for 2025 at the end of another year of global challenges

Ecology of the past and future • Edward Davey

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

Review of Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back

Action, dreaming and determination • Edward Davey

Issue 344 • May/June 2024 • Threshold places > Reviews

Review of Climate Capitalism: Winning the Global Race to Zero Emissions and The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet

On the Brink • Edward Davey

Issue 343 • March/April 2024 • When we speak > Reviews

Review of Our Fragile Moment: How Lessons from the Earth’s Past Can Help Us Survive the Climate Crisis

Love Letters to the Forests • Edward Davey

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 • Immersion > Reviews

Review of Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet and The Lost Rainforests of Britain

Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide • Edward Davey

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 • Trouble brewing > Connected life

Author Anna Jones shares thoughts on her new book

The Price of Meat • Edward Davey

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

Review of The Meat Paradox

The Ethical Choice • Edward Davey

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 • Tipping point > Reviews

Review of How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World

An 'Ecological Civilisation' • Edward Davey

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 • Pathways > Reviews

Review of Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know

How to Avoid the Tyranny of Take-Away Cutlery • Edward Davey

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

Review of How To Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World One Plastic Bottle at a Time

Time To Take Stock • Edward Davey

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

Review of Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Down To The Last Drop • Edward Davey

Issue 302 • May/June 2017 • Real Wealth > Reviews

Review of Water in Plain Sight Hope for a Thirsty World

Why We Should Give A Fig • Edward Davey

Issue 300 • January/February 2017 • A Plea for Empathy > Reviews

Review of Ladders to Heaven: How Fig Trees Shaped Our History, Fed Our Imaginations and Can Enrich Our Future

Myths for the Near Future • Edward Davey

Issue 298 • September/October 2016 • Regenerative Cities > Reviews

Review of Eden 2.0: Climate Change and the Search for a 21st Century Myth