Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 303 • July/August 2017
The Pilgrim's Path

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Welcome

The Politics of Hope •

We need voices for a sustainable future, nature and social justice

Frontline

India's Dispossessed People Get Behind the Camera •

People living in rural poverty are among those being trained to become 'community correspondents'

Opposition Grows to New European Gas Pipeline •

Report on protests against a transcontinental project

News from the Grassroots •

A round up of environmental news stories

Human Rights Blogger Held After Midnight Raid •

An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International

Ecologist

Lines of Hope In the Land •

Rereading country clues to find new chances for nature

A Haunting Hunter •

A breathtaking encounter

Blades of Glory •

Wind power is connecting culture with a city's renewal

Passion and Persistence, In Nature's Cause •

Profiling eight great conservationists of the past century

Planting The Seeds of Recovery •

Carlos Magdalena is a Kew Garden botanist with a global mission

Keynotes

When Big States Fail, The People Step Up •

The case for a decentralist future

Undercurrents

Voyages of Discovery, Open To The Wild •

Ecological pilgrimage connects us to nature

A Journey of Reconnecting •

Finding a new sense of community and social values

Human Rights Are Animal Rights •

Speciesism is analogous to racism, homophobia and misogyny

Ethical Living

Human Beans and Space Invaders •

Pondering the claims for human evolution

Volunteering for a Lesson •

Joining a group of conservation workers bring expected rewards

Storyteller of the Life that Could Be •

An interview with Pierre Rabhi, ecologist and visionary

Bird in the Hand, Mind in the Eye •

Finding meaning in the shapes around us

Every Child a Gardener •

Every child should be a gardener

Diet: The Highest Form of Medicine •

Chinese traditions teach the value of food as a pillar of healthy living

The Two Sides of the Prophet of Simplicity •

The message of Henry David Thoreau reassessed

The Arts

The Light and the Dark •

The work of stained-glass artist Thomas Denny reflects his deep connection to landscape

Beauty in a Blue Mood •

The art of Japanese textile artists Shihoko Fukumoto

Songs to Break the Spell •

Music that highlights the growing epidemic of loneliness

Regulars

Poetry - I Found the Poems in the Fields •

Re-assessing the eco-poetry of John Clare

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our Editors

Reviews

Living on the Edge •

Review of Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey

On the Dark Side of the Land •

Review of Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks

Our Food is Cooking the Planet •

Review of The Great Climate Robbery: How the Food System Drives Climate Change and What We Can Do about It

The True Cost of a Cheap Meal •

Review of Chickenizing Farms & Food: How Industrial Meat Production Endangers Workers, Animals, and Consumers

Collector of Hope •

Review of How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow's World Today

The Facts That Matter •

Review of Missed Information: Better Information for Building a Wealthier, More Sustainable Future

Beauty on the Wing •

Review of Remarkable Birds

Web Exclusives

Article - Forest Therapy •

Introducing a social enterprise bringing vulnerable people to the woods to find solace through nature

Article - Think Globally, Act Locally? • &

In the face of climate change, we need a coordinated approach to make a change

Article - A Parable For Modern Life •

As in the Heart, So in the Earth: Reversing the Desertification of the Soul and the Soil