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Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed to Reverse Global Warming by Paul Hawken

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Shining New Light on Our Future

Eat Up! Food, Appetite and Eating What You Want by Ruby Tandoh

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > An Appetite for Connection

Morning: How to Make Time - A Manifesto by Allan Jenkins

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > A Morning Wake-Up Call

Our Place: Can We Save Britain's Wildlife Before It Is Too Late? by Mark Cocker

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Our Vanishingly Pleasant Land

Taming the Sun:: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet by Varum Shivaram

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Shining New Light on Our Future

The Growth Delusion by David Pilling

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Growing Pains

The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity's Search for Meaning by Jeremy Lent

Issue 309 • July/August 2018 > Reviews > Beating the System, Metaphorically

Reviews from the past year

A Dance with Hermes by Lindsay Clarke

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > The Trickster

A rich selection of books on topics as diverse as futurology, Nature writing, politics and poetry by Various Authors

Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Books of the Year

Among the Summer Snows by Christopher Nicholson

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > A Touch of Winter in August

As in the Heart, So in the Earth: Reversing the Desertification of the Soul and the Soil by Pierre Rabhi

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Web Exclusives > Article > A Parable For Modern Life

Awake : A Dream From Standing Rock by Josh Fox, James Spione, Myron Dewey

Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Joining Hands at Standing Rock

Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling by Carlton Reid

Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Pedalling on a Bumpy Road

Chagos: History – Exploration, Exploitation, Expulsion by Nigel Wenban-Smith and Marina Carter

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Web Exclusives > Review > Cast Away

Chickenizing Farms & Food: Chickenizing Farms & Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers by Ellen K Silbergeld

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > The True Cost of a Cheap Meal

Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist by Paul Kingsnorth

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > In the Ending Are the Words

Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming by Benjamin R Barber

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Within City Limits

Existence: A Story by David Hinton

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Landscape With A Vision

Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science 1500-1630 by Florike Egmond

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Up Close and Beautiful

Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M Coupland

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > On the Dark Side of the Land

Fertile Edges: Regenerating Land, Culture and Hope by Maddy Harland

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Nourishing Read

Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity by Michel P Pimbert

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > There is Another Way

From Global to Local: the Making of Things and the End of Globalization by Finbarr Livesey

Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > A 3D Future is Missing a Dimension

From the Deep Well : The Diaries of Pratale Farm by Etain Addey

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Digging In

Generation Zapped by Sabine El Gemayel

Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > A CALL FOR SCREEN PROTECTION

How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today by Ed Mayo

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Collector of Hope

Human Scale Revisited : A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future by Kirkpatrick Sale

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Still Thinking Small

Humankind: Solidarity with Non-human people by Timothy Morton

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > Planetary Communism

Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature by Jairam Ramesh

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Premier and A Conservationist

Is Racism an Environmental Threat? by Ghassan Hage

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > Nature, Race and an Idea of Home

Islander : A Journey Around Our Archipelago by Patrick Barkham

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > Worlds Unto Themselves

Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey by Madeleine Bunting

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Living on the Edge

Matter & Desire: An Erotic Ecology by Andreas Webber

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > The Biological Power of Love

Missed Information: Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future by David Sarokin | Jay Schulkin

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > The Facts That Matter

Nature's Temples: The Complex World of Old-growth Forests by Joan Maloof

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out

No Is Not Enough by Naomi Klein

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Playing The Trump Card

Oak and Ash and Thorn: The Ancient Woods and New Forests of Britain by Peter Fiennes

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out

Oaks and the Apennines: Truffle Cultivation, Heritage Foods, Sustainability and Well-Being in Italy by Tamara J Griffiths

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Digging for Black Gold

Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > The Alternative? We Need New Stories

Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat by Barbara J King

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Sins and Omissions of the Flesh

Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics by Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, Norman Wirzba (eds)

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Keeping Faith In Farming

Remarkable Birds by Michael McCarthy

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Beauty on the Wing

Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > Hope For A Watershed Moment

Risingtidefallenstar by Philip Hoare

Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Drawn by the Wind and the Waves

Science and Spiritual Practices by Rupert Sheldrake

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > The Science Behind Spirituality?

Senses of Mystery: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life by David E Cooper

Issue 306 • January/February 2018 > Reviews > Beyond Words

Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations by Thomas L Friedman

Issue 304 • September/October 2017 > Reviews > Time To Take Stock

The Business Plan for Peace: Building a World Without Water by Scilla Elworthy

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > A Costed Plan for Peace

The Great Climate Robbery: How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do about It by Henk Hobbelink

Issue 303 • July/August 2017 > Reviews > Our Food is Cooking the Planet

The Lost Words by Robert Macfarlane | Jacki Morris

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Casting Nature's Spells

The Songs of the Trees: Stories from Nature's Great Connectors by Haskell David George

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Branching Out

Voices For Peace: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance: War, Resistance and America's Quest for Full-Spectrum Dominance by TJ Coles

Issue 308 • May/June 2018 > Reviews > War and Order

Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence by Nick Hunt

Issue 305 • November/December 2017 > Reviews > Under Pressure

Youth Unemployment by Tish Murtha

Issue 307 • March/April 2018 > Reviews > A Visual Tale of Society, Politics and Prophecy