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

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

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

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

How to Save the World for Free by Natalie Fee

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

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

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

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

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

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

We Made a Wildflower Meadow by Yvette Verner

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

Reviews from the past year

A Bright Future: How Some Countries have Solved Climate Change : A Bright Future: How Some Countries have Solved Climate Change by Joshua S Goldstein and Staffan A Qvist

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Let's Get Political

A review of the 'All Hail Kale' podcast by Tonic Productions

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > Happiness . . . it's a Gut Feeling

Building the Cycling City: The Dutch Blueprint for Urban Vitality by Melissa Bruntlett & Chris Brunlett

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > Power to the Pedal Pushers

Climate Justice: Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future by Mary Robinson

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Reviews > The Medium is the Message

Ecological Form: System and Aesthetics in the Age of Empire by Nathan K Hensley and Philip Steer

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Imagining A Future In Retrospect

Education for Sustainability through Internationalisation by Neera Handa

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Web Exclusives > Review > To teach well, we must learn from each other 

Elegant Simplicity: The Art of Living Well by Satish Kumar

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > Why We Should Make Life Simple

England: Poems from a School by Kate Clanchy (ed)

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Reviews > Connecting Words

Environmental Pollution in China: What Everyone Needs to Know by Daniel K Gardner

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > An 'Ecological Civilisation'

Extraordinary Insects: Weird. Wonderful. Indispensable. The Ones Who Run Our World by Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Smashing the Museum Glass

Ghost Trees: Nature and People in a London Parish by Bob Gilbert

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > London's Ghosts: Past, Present and Future

Given Half a Chance: Ten Ways to Save the World by Edward Davey

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Let's Get Political

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 See Nature by Paul Evans

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Web Exclusives > Review > Seeing Nature in a New Light

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

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

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

Mesquite: An Arboreal Love Affair by Gary Paul Nabhan

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Reviews > Roots of Love

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

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

Outrage and Optimism by Global Optimism

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Impossible Is Not a Fact: It is an Attitude

Permaculture Design Companion: A Practical Workbook for Integrating People and Place by Jasmine Dale

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > Permaculture From the Heart

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

Sharkwater Extinction by Robert Stewart

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > A Hero's Legacy

Surfacing by Kathleen Jamie

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

Symbiotic Earth: How Lynn Margulis Rocked the Boat and Started a Scientific Revolution by John Feldman

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Reviews > We Are Ecosystems

The Book of Humans: The Story of How We Became Us by Adam Rutherford

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Reviews > Animals Who Act Like Gods

The Bright Sessions by Lauren Shippen

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > The Power of Vulnerability

The Children's Fire: Heart Songs of a People by Mac Macartney

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Reviews > Firing the Imagination

The Divided Brain by Manfred Becker

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

The Ecology of Hedgerows and Field Margins by John W Dover (ed)

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Reconnecting the Landscape

The Enchanted Life: Unlocking the Magic of Everyday by Sharon Blackie

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > Finding 'extra' in ordinary

The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > The Final Final Countdown

The Garden Jungle: Or Gardening to Save the Planet by David Goulson

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Growing Gains

The Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair

Issue 313 • March/April 2019 > Reviews > Material World

The House Without Windows by Barbara Newhall Follett and Jackie Morris

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

The Land of the Brighton Line: A Field Guide to the Middle Sussex and South East Surrey Weald by David Bangs

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > Tools to Heal the Weald

The New Silk Roads: The Present and Future of the World by Peter Frankopan

Issue 314 • May/June 2019 > Reviews > An 'Ecological Civilisation'

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 Snow Leopard Project: And Other Adventures in Warzone Conservation by Alex Dehgan

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > Birdwatching With The Taliban

The Uninhabitable Earth: A Story of the Future by David Wallace-Wells

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > Waking Up To Future Earth

The White Silhouette by James Harper

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Web Exclusives > Review > What Faith Means

The Wild Remedy: How Nature Mends Us - A Diary by Emma Mitchell

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > High and Low Seasons

The World Made Otherwise: Sustaining Humanity in a Threatened World by Timonthy J Gorringe

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > Where We Can Go From Here

This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook by Extinction Rebellion

Issue 316 • September/October 2019 > Reviews > A Handbook for Rebellion

Thomas Berry: A Biography by

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

Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > Future Fossils

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

ZEDlife: How to Build a Low-Carbon Society Today by Bill Dunster

Issue 315 • July/August 2019 > Reviews > Home Truths

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