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Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Soil and Soul

Finding the Mother Tree: Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the Forest by Suzanne Simard

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Talking Trees

How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need by Bill Gates

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Billionaire's Take

Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Lust for Land

Make It Happen: How to Be an Activist by Amika George

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Guide to Success

Parents for a Future by Rupert Read

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > A Big Ask

The Care Crisis: What Caused It and How Can We End It? by Emma Dowling

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Care Under Capitalism

Who Cares Wins by Lily Cole

Issue 327 • July/August 2021 > Reviews > Who Cares Who Wins?

Reviews from the past year

A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agriculutural Diversity and a Shared Earth by Chris Smaje

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Seeds of Resilience

A Spell in the Wild: A Spell in the Wild: A Year (and Six Centuries) of Magic by Alice Tarbuck

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Magic for Strange Times

A Still Life: A Memoir by Joise George

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Small, Wonderful World

A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time by Stephanie Kaza (ed)

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Celebrating a Great American Tradition

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

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

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

Competition is Killing Us: How Big Business is Harming Our Society and Planet - and What To Do About It by Michelle Meager

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > A Question of Power

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

Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide by Vincent Liegey and Anitra Nelson

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Growing Pains

Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Last Word

Film Review: Swarm Season by Sarah Christman

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

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

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

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

Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate Emergency by Jonathon Porritt

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > A Useful Guide to Hope

How They Made Us Doubt Everything by Peter Pomerantsev

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Stalling for Profit

How to Disagree: Negotiating Difference in a Divided World by Adam Ferner and Darren Chetty

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > How Can We Agree?

Humankind: A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman

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

I Am Greta: B-Reel Films by Nathan Grossman

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > From the Beginning

Imperial Mud: The Fight for the Fens by James Boyce

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

Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-human Landscape by Cal Flyn

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Brave New Future

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

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

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

Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis by Marina Sitrin & Colectiva Sembrar (eds.)

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Kindness Amid Crisis

Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism by Kate Soper

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Growing Pains

Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being by Alastair McIntosh

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Guiding Spirit

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

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

See No Stranger: A Memoir and Manifesto of Revolutionary Love by Valarie Kaur

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Warrior Saint

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

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

The Cost of Free Shipping: Amazon in the Global Economy by Jake Alimahomed-Wilson and Ellen Reese

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Taking on an Empire

The Fossil Woman: A Life of Mary Anning by Tom Sharpe

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > Mary Anning Rocks

The Life of the White Mare: Sobriety and Enchantment by Etain Addey

Issue 324 • January/February 2021 > Reviews > The Meaning of Sacrifice

The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart by Noreena Hertz

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Home Alone

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 Next Great Migration: The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet by Sonia Shah

Issue 326 • May/June 2021 > Reviews > Migration: A Climate Solution

The Reindeer Chronicles: And Other Inspiring Stories of Working with Nature to Heal the Earth by Judith D Schwartz

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > Brave New Future

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

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

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

Vesper Flights by Helen MacDonald

Issue 325 • March/April 2021 > Reviews > H is For Humanity

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

White Riot by Rubika Shah

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