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Communities of Hope: Discovering the Ecovillages of Europe by Diego Ruiz Hidalgo and Lou Salomon

Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Ecovillage People

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > A Kind of Hope

Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce

Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Rising Up From History

Stone Talks by Alyson Hallett

Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Listening to Rocks

Tales of Two Planets: Stories of Climate Change and Inequality in a Divided World by John Freeman

Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Teaching Facts with New Stories

The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines That Divide Us by Nick Hayes

Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Taking Back The Land

White Riot by Rubika Shah

Issue 323 • November/December 2020 > Reviews > Rock Against Racism

Reviews from the past year

A History of the World in 21 Women : A Personal Selection by Jenni Murray

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Herstory, Not History

Amber Waves: The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat from Wild Grass to World Megacrop by Catherine Zabinski

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Grain of Truth

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Between Science and Knowledge

Climate Psychology: On Indifference to Disaster by Paul Hoggett

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Out of The Comfort Zone

Dancing With Bees: A Journey Back to Nature by Brigit Strawbridge Howard

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Bee Inspired

Emperors, Admirals & Chimney Sweepers: The Weird and Wonderful Names of Butterflies and Moths by Peter Marren

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Rejoice in Insects

Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Magic Mushrooms

Film Review: Swarm Season by Sarah Christman

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Nature Cure

Film Review: Swarm Season by Sarah Christman

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Migrations in Space

Free, Fair and Alice: The Insurgent Power of the Commons by David Bollier | Silke Helfrich

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > All is One

Free, Fair and Alice: The Insurgent Power of the Commons by David Bollier | Silke Helfrich

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > The Common Good

From What If to What Next: Podcast by Rob Hopkins

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > The Power of Reimagination

Gandhi the Organiser: How He Shaped a Nationwide Rebellion, India 1915-1922 by Bob Overy

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > How to Build a Movement

Global Hive: What the Bee Crisis Teaches Us about Building a Sustainable World by Horst Kornberger

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Voice of a Generation

Global Hive: What the Bee Crisis Teaches Us about Building a Sustainable World by Horst Kornberger

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Ecolibrium

Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside by Dieter Helm

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Putting a Price on Nature

How to Save the World for Free by Natalie Fee

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Flying The Green Flag

Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here by Dan Eatherley

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Going Native

Letters to the Earth: Writing to a Planet in Crisis by Jackie Morris

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Love Mail

Life at Walnut Tree Farm by Rufus Deakin

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > The House that Roger Built

Living Well at Others' Expense: The Hidden Cost of Western Prosperity by Stephan Lessenich

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > The Cost of Living Well

Local Is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness: Steps to an Economics of Happiness by Helena Norberg-Hodge

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Interdependence is a Beautiful Thing

Losing Eden: Why Our Minds Need the Wild by Lucy Jones

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Nature Cure

Mothers of Invention: a podcast by Mary Robinson by Mary Robinson

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Man-made Crisis, Feminist Solutions

Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live by Rob Dunn

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Your House is a Jungle

Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence by James Lovelock

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > The Next Evolutionary Step

Of Fish and Foe by Heike Bachelier & Andy Heathcote

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > On the Hook

On Fire: The Burning Case for a Green New Deal by Naomi Klein

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > There Is Nothing We Cannot Achieve

One Planet Cities': Sustaining Humanity within Planetary Limits by David Thorpe

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > A Call to the Imagination

Organicity: Entropy or Evolution by David Dobereiner

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Web Exclusives > Review > A Different Understanding of Ourselves

Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis: Our House Is on Fire: Scenes of a Family and a Planet in Crisis by Malena and Beata Ernman, Svante and Greta Thunberg

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Voice of a Generation

Pilgrimage: A Journey to Love Island by Jay Ramsay

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Web Exclusives > Review > Steps In The Sand

Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking by Rachel Love Nuwer

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > Hunter and Hunted

Sustainababble by

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > A Bit of Banter Goes A Long Way

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Between Science and Knowledge

Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie

Issue 317 • November/December 2019 > Reviews > The Bond of Memory

The Accidental Countryside: Hidden Havens for Britain's Wildlife by Stephen Moss

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > On The Verge

The Birds They Sang: Birds and People in Life and Art by Stanisław Łubieński

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Bird's Eye View

The Divided Brain by Manfred Becker

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Two Brains Are Better Than One

The Enchantment of the Long-haired Rat: A Rodent History of Australia by Tim Bonyhady

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Web Exclusives > Review > Of Rats and Men

The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World by Amanda Little

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Food Futures

The Hidden World of the Fox by Adele Brand

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Essence of Fox

The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett and Jackie Morris

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Celebrating 'Old Nature Writing'

The Music of Time: Poetry in the Twentieth Century by Peter Abbs

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > In Defence of Eco-poetry

The Natural Health Service: What the Great Outdoors Can Do for Your Mind by Isabel Hardman

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > Nature Cure

The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod by Harry Beston

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Celebrating 'Old Nature Writing'

The Self Delusion: The Surprising Science of How We Are Connected and Why That Matters by Tom Oliver

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > All is One

The Wild Silence by Raynor Winn

Issue 322 • September/October 2020 > Reviews > Beyond the Path

This Land is Our Land by Jedediah Purdy

Issue 320 • May/June 2020 > Reviews > Reshaping The World

Thomas Berry: A Biography by

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > What is Good For the Meadow

Under the Stars: A Journey into Light: A Journey into Light by Matt Gaw

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > A Quest for Darkness

Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape: Wanderland: A Search for Magic in the Landscape by Jini Reddy

Issue 321 • July/August 2020 > Reviews > The Spirit of the Land

We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer

Issue 318 • January/February 2020 > Reviews > Eating for a Cooler Planet

We Made a Wildflower Meadow by Yvette Verner

Issue 319 • March/April 2020 > Reviews > Leading the Field

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