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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

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

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

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

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

Outrage and Optimism by Global Optimism

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

Sharkwater Extinction by Robert Stewart

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reviews from the past year

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

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

Becoming Animal by Huw Wahl

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 > Reviews > Where Human and Animal Meet

Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words by Jeremy Mynott

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > A World Closer to Nature

Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland by Lisa Schneidau

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > Once Upon a Thyme

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

Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith by Lynne Wycherley

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 > Reviews > Tracing A Green Grace

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

Dear John: The Road to Pelindaba by Satish Kumar

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 > Reviews > An Unexpected Life Story

Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture by Sara Melendro

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 > Reviews > From the Ground Up

Down To Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > New Politics For The Coming Crisis

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'

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

How to See Nature by Paul Evans

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

Mesquite: An Arboreal Love Affair by Gary Paul Nabhan

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

More than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age by Antonia Macaro

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > One Good Life, Two Systems

Owl Sense by Miriam Darlington

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > The Silence of Owls

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

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

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 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 Golden Thread: How Fabric Changed History by Kassia St Clair

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

The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature by J Drew Lanham

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > Black and White and Green

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 Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal by Jane MacNamee

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 > Reviews > Living In the Shadow of Winter

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

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

The Shock Doctrine of the Left by Graham Jones

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > New Politics For The Coming Crisis

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

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

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

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

The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist by Michael McCarthy

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 > Reviews > Order Out of Chaos

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

Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert MacFarlane

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

Wackersdforf by Horatio Morpurgo

Issue 312 • January/February 2019 > Reviews > Nuclear Reactor

What Are You Doing With Your Life? by Jiddu Krishnamurti

Issue 310 • September/October 2018 > Reviews > Why Don't We Change?

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

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

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