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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

Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha

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

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

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 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

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

Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation by Sudeep Sen

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

Around the World in 80 Plants by Jonathan Drori

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Plant Portraits

Beak, Tooth and Claw: Living with Predators in Britain by Mary Colwell

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Hunter and Hunted

Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? by Jessica Fanzo

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Eating Together

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

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

Earthed by Rebecca Schiller

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Soil and Soul

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

Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Talking Trees

Floodlines by Alice Bell

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Up Close and Personal

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

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

Gifts of Gravity and Light: A Nature Almanac for the 21st Century by Anita Roy and Pippa Marland (eds)

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > The Arts > Climate Talks

Go Big: How to Fix Our World by Ed Miliband

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Reimagining What's Possible

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

How Compassion Can Transform Our Politics, Economy and Society by Matt Hawkins and Jennifer Nadel

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > The Power of Caring

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Billionaire's Take

How to Be Animal: A New History of What It Means to Be Human by Melanie Challenger

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Eye of the Storm

How to Love Animals in a Human-Shaped World by Henry Mance

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Rational Thinking

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Lust for Land

Landed Podcast by Farmerara Radio

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

Learning to Lead Together: An Ecological and Community Approach by Jane Riddiford

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > Rebuilding Connection

Light Rains Sometimes Fall: A British Year Through Japan's 72 Seasons by Lev Parikian

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > A Year in Microseasons

Make It Happen: How to Be an Activist by Amika George

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Guide to Success

Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis by Alice Bell

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Beginning, Middle - and End?

Parents for a Future by Rupert Read

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Big Ask

Psychological Roots of the Climate Crisis by Sally Weintrobe

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

Reading recommendations for the New Year by

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Good Books

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

Seven Ways to Change the World: How to Fix the Most Pressing Problems We Face by Gordon Brown

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Reimagining What's Possible

Smoke Hole Sessions Podcast by Martin Shaw

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Stories by the Fire

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 Atlas of Disappearing Places: Our Coasts and Oceans in the Climate Crisis by Christina Conklin and Marina Psaros

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Mapping the Future

The Bird-friendly City: Creating Safe Urban Habitats by Melanie Challenger

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Bird's-Eye View

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 Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Care Under Capitalism

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

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

The Eternal Season: Ghosts of Summers Past, Present and Future by Stephen Rutt

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > The Arts > Climate Talks

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

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

The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M Krauss

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > The Power of Science

The Treeline: The Last Forest and the Future of Life on Earth by Ben Rawlence

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Roots of Change

The Web of Meaning: Integrating Science and Traditional Wisdom to Find Our Place in the Universe by Jeremy Lent

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Reviews > The Crossroads of Wonder and Despair

Three Podcasts with different world views by

Issue 330 • January/February 2022 > Reviews > Listen Up!

We Have a Dream by Mya-Rose Craig

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

Who Cares Wins by Lily Cole

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Who Cares Who Wins?

Why Rebel by Jay Griffiths

Issue 328 • September/October 2021 > Regulars > Letters to the Editors > Letters to the Editor

Wir konnten auch anders: Eine kurze Geschichte der Nachhaltigkeit by Jane Riddiford

Issue 329 • November/December 2021 > Reviews > Sustainability - Medieval Style