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Environmental Thought: A Short History by Robin Attfield

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Cry From the Heart

Landscapes of Silence: From Childhood to the Arctic by Hugh Brody

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > The Ties That Bind

Nightwalking: Four Journeys into Britain After Dark by John Lewis-Stempel

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night

On Belonging: Finding Connection in an Age of Isolation by Kim Samuel

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Humans Long to Connect

Speculative Futures:: Design Approaches to Navigate Change, Foster Resilience and Co-create the Cities We Need by Johanna Hoffman

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Reimagining Our Future

The Darkness Manifesto: How Light Pollution Threatens the Ancient Rhythms of Life by Johan Eklöf

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Untameable Night

The Wheel of the Year: Your Nurturing Guide to Discovering Nature's Seasons and Cycles by Rebecca Beattie

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > Nurturing With Nature

What We Owe the Future: A Million-year View by William MacAskill

Issue 337 • March/April 2023 > Reviews > A Shaky Moral Framework

Reviews from the past year

A Bigger Picture: My Flight to Bring a New African Voice to the Climate Crisis by Vanessa Nakate

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Amplifying the Voices of African Activists

Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another: Thunderstone by Nancy Campbell

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > A Golden Thread of Community

After the Ithaca: Journeys in Deep Time by Charlotte Du Cann

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Hero's Journey

Agroecology and Regenerative Agriculture: Navdanya's Research on Sustainable Solutions for Hunger, Poverty, and Climate Change by Vandana Shiva

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Diversity on the Farm

Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Poetry in the Time of Covid

Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Spirit Guide

Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us by Jon Alexander

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Helping Ourselves

Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet by Matthew T Huber

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > The Real Change-makers

Dawn of an Era of Well-being by Ervin László and Frederick Tsao

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Separation is an Illusion

Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them by Dan Saladino

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Missing Meals

Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet by John W Reid & Thomas E Lovejoy

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Love Letters to the Forests

Expansion Rebellion: Using the Law to Fight a Runway and Save the Planet by Celeste Hicks

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > The Third Runway Saga

Fledgling by Hannah Bourne-Taylor

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Purpose and Magic

Flourish: Design Paradigms for Our Planetary Emergency by Sarah Ichioka and Michael Pawlyn

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Design for Life

Garments Without Guilt? : Global Labour Justice and Ethical Codes in Sri Lankan Apparels by Kanchana N Ruwanpura

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Made in Sri Lanka

Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics by Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Planning for the Planet

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations (Volumes 1-5) by Gavin van Horn, Robin Wall Kimmerer, John Hausdoerffer (eds.)

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > A Planetary Tangle of Relations

Landed Podcast by Farmerara Radio

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Deep Digging on the Family Farm

Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > The Road Ahead

Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Extinction and Rebirth

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis by Sally Weintrobe

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Colluding with Exceptionalism

Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Devouring the Planet by George Monbiot

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Eat to Live

Riding Out: A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings by Simon Parker

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > A Golden Thread of Community

Riverwoods by SCOTLAND: The Big Picture

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Fish Out of Water

Saving Us: A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope and Healing in a Divided World by Katharine Hayhoe

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > We Need to Talk

Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Lost Frequencies

Subtle Agroecologies: Farming with the Hidden Half of Nature by Julia Wright and Nicholas Parrott (eds)

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Invisible Dimension of Farming

The Book of Hope: A Survival Guide for an Endangered Planet by Jane Goodall and Douglas Abrams

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > A Force of Grace

The Boys Who Said NO!: Draft Resistance and the Vietnam War by Judith Ehrlich

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Hell No, We Won't Go

The Climate Book by Greta Thunberg

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Within the Climate Emergency

The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > The Origins of Equality

The Disenchanted Earth: Reflections on Ecosocialism and Barbarism by Richard Seymour

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > An Ecological Awakening

The Entangled Activist: Learning to Recognise the Master's Tools by Anthea Lawson

Issue 332 • May/June 2022 > Reviews > Out of Our Systems

The Fairy Tellers: A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales by Nicholas Jubber

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > Telling Time

The First Astronomers: How Indigenous Elders Read the Stars by Duane Hamacher

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > Night Vision

The Lost Rainforests of Britain by Guy Shrubsole

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > Love Letters to the Forests

The Meat Paradox by Rob Percival

Issue 334 • September/October 2022 > Reviews > The Price of Meat

The Nation of Plants: A Radical Manifesto for Humans by Stefano Mancuso

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Planting Ideas

The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis by Amitav Ghosh

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > The Spice of Life

The Oil Machine by Emma Davie

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > How Oil Took Over Our Lives

The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River by Tobias Jones

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > The Voice of a River

The Restorative Spirit: Illuminating the Soul in a Time of Global Awakening by Mick Collins

Issue 335 • November/December 2022 > Reviews > Pilgrimage of the Heart

The Rise of Ecofascism: Climate Change and the Far Right by Sam Moore and Alex Roberts

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > Fascism and Climate Crisis

The Sloth Lemur's Song: Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present by Alison Richard

Issue 333 • July/August 2022 > Reviews > A Love Song to Madagascar

We Have a Dream by Mya-Rose Craig

Issue 331 • March/April 2022 > Reviews > An Anthem for Climate Justice

Yikes by Podcast hosted by Mikaela Loach and Josephine Becker

Issue 336 • January/February 2023 > Reviews > What's Big and Scary?