The Pilgrim's Path

Contents

Welcome

The Politics of Hope • Greg Neale

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

Frontline

India's Dispossessed People Get Behind the Camera • Naomi Canton

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

Opposition Grows to New European Gas Pipeline • Kara Moses

Report on protests against a transcontinental project

News from the Grassroots • Greg Neale

A round up of environmental news stories

Human Rights Blogger Held After Midnight Raid • Greg Neale

An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International

Ecologist

Lines of Hope In the Land • Hugh Warwick

Rereading country clues to find new chances for nature

A Haunting Hunter • Kate Blincoe

A breathtaking encounter

Blades of Glory • Nick Robins

Wind power is connecting culture with a city's renewal

Passion and Persistence, In Nature's Cause • Larry A Nielsen

Profiling eight great conservationists of the past century

Planting The Seeds of Recovery • Oliver Tickell

Carlos Magdalena is a Kew Garden botanist with a global mission

Keynotes

When Big States Fail, The People Step Up • Kirkpatrick Sale

The case for a decentralist future

Undercurrents

Voyages of Discovery, Open To The Wild • Peter Reason

Ecological pilgrimage connects us to nature

A Journey of Reconnecting • Niki Harré

Finding a new sense of community and social values

Human Rights Are Animal Rights • Peter Tatchell

Speciesism is analogous to racism, homophobia and misogyny

Ethical Living

Human Beans and Space Invaders • Leo Johnson

Pondering the claims for human evolution

Volunteering for a Lesson • Ros Coward

Joining a group of conservation workers bring expected rewards

Storyteller of the Life that Could Be • Satish Kumar

An interview with Pierre Rabhi, ecologist and visionary

Bird in the Hand, Mind in the Eye • Matt Harvey

Finding meaning in the shapes around us

Every Child a Gardener • Claire Ash-Wheeler

Every child should be a gardener

Diet: The Highest Form of Medicine • Peter Deadman

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

The Two Sides of the Prophet of Simplicity • James Clarke

The message of Henry David Thoreau reassessed

The Arts

The Light and the Dark • Emma Crichton-Miller

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

Beauty in a Blue Mood • India Windsor-Clive

The art of Japanese textile artists Shihoko Fukumoto

Songs to Break the Spell • Ewan McLennan

Music that highlights the growing epidemic of loneliness

Regulars

Poetry - I Found the Poems in the Fields • Peter Abbs

Re-assessing the eco-poetry of John Clare

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our Editors

Reviews

Living on the Edge • Jane MacNamee

Review of Love of Country: A Hebridean Journey

On the Dark Side of the Land • Francis Beckett

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

Our Food is Cooking the Planet • Paul Brown

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 • Almaz Gaere

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

Collector of Hope • Ed Mayo

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

The Facts That Matter • David Boyle

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

Beauty on the Wing • Michael McCarthy

Review of Remarkable Birds

Web Exclusives

Article - Forest Therapy • Jane Acton

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

Article - Think Globally, Act Locally? • John Bunzl & Nick Duffell

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

Article - A Parable For Modern Life • Lizzie Francolini

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