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Welcome
Spring In Our Step • Greg Neale
When we walk together we become forces for change
Frontline
Social Justice Must Accompany Action on Climate Change • Adam Weymouth
Outside of the diplomatic circles at COP21, NGO's called for political change
Women Farmers Take Centre Stage • Sue Steward
Drawn to the Land exhibition checks nation's pulse amid independence debate
News from the Grassroots • Greg Neale
Reports from around the world
Doug Tompkins obituary • Greg Neale
Tycoon-turned-conservationist working to rewild swathes of South Africa
Ecologist
2050: We Can Make It • Mukti Mitchell
While the current carbon-reduction targets are not enough, there are other ways to avert climate change
The Women Leading China's New Organic Army • Katrina Yu
A new approach to farming is helping to break the country's addiction to pesticides
A New Pact With the Planet • Vandana Shiva
A 10-point pledge to the Earth
Keynotes
Meaning Is Not In Things, But In The Betweenness • Iain McGilchrist
True wellbeing is found in our relationships
Quotes
Writers on Walking
Quotes to introduce a special series of articles on walking
Undercurrents
Walking Back to Happiness • Jane MacNamee
A therapy found in Nature
Walking In Paradise • James Hillman
Extract from James Hillman's article on walking first published in 1988
Lost and Found in No Man's Land • Dan Kieran
The joys of rediscovering a childhood landscape
Pavement Pleasures • Tom Hodgkinson
Reclaim the city streets
Thoughts In Our Footsteps • Avril Loveless, David Herd & Andrea Perry
A walk in solidarity with refugees
Healing Patterns from the Past • Hugo Davenport
Jill Purce believes our ancestors may still directly affect our lives, health and wellbeing
Ethical Living
My Life On The Move • Satish Kumar
The spirituality of walking
If We Are What We Eat, We're In Trouble • Leo Johnson
Are we what we eat?
Fears Rise for Vietnamese Rights Activist • Greg Neale
An Amnesty International Appeal
Vegetarianism is the Only Green Option • Pujya Sadhvi Bhagawati Saraswatiji
A compelling case for vegetarianism
What's App? iWorry about that • Matt Harvey
Entering the digital matrix
The Arts
A Walk on the Wild Side • Miriam Darlington
A night-time, open-air drama that explores the dark side of our relationship with Nature
Women Sweep Resurgence Eco-Poetry Prize • Greg Neale
The winning entries
The Master of Inscape • Peter Abbs
The eco-poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Landscapes of Eternity • Peter Hawkins
The environmental undertones in Dante's masterpiece
Sailing for Sanctuary • Jay Griffiths
The Boat People sculptures of Peter Adams
Regulars
Letters to the Editors
A selection of letters from our readers
Crossword • Tim Bonsor
A brainteaser full of ecological clues
Reviews
Take Care, Not Control, of Our Planet • Jonathon Porritt
Review of The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Coming Together, Drifting Apart • Mark Goldring
Review of The Globalization of Inequality
The Sweet Taste of Excess • Joanna Blythman
Review of Sugar
Dead Reckoning • Russell Warfield
Review of Death and the Afterlife, and Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination
Being Right Here, Right Now • David Cadman
Review of Our Only World: Ten Essays
Provoking Putin • Paul Brown
Review of Don't Trust, Don't Fear, Don't Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic Thirty
The Museum as Encyclopaedia • Geraldine Norman
Review of My Hermitage: How the Hermitage Survived Tsars, Wars and Revolutions to Become the Greatest Museum in the World
Where Two Worlds Meet • Michael McCarthy
Review of Coastlines: The Story of Our Shore
Web Exclusives
Article - Old Roots, New Shoots • Julia Ponsonby
Thoughts on the origins of plant life, plus a seasonal recipe for nettle and sunflower seed spread
Article - From Me to We • Scilla Elworthy
The soul is central to the future of humanity
Review - Testament to the Past • Felix Padel
Review of Antiquarian Remains of Jharkhand
