Walking Back to Happiness

Contents

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