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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

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

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

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

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

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

Sounds Wild and Broken by David George Haskell

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

The Oil Machine by Emma Davie

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

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

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

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

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

Black Lion: Alive in the Wilderness by Sicelo Mbatha

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 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 Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M Krauss

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

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

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

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

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

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

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