Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 304 • September/October 2017

Together We Are Stronger

Inside this issue

Welcome

We Can Be Heroes • Greg Neale

Ordinary people, extraordinary stories. All are inspirational

Frontline

Osprey Translocation Project Takes Off • Marianne Brown

Once extinct in Britain, this spectacular bird is returning

A round up or news on fracking and energy in the UK • Kara Moses

Irish fracking ban; disinvestment; and 'fossil free' theatre tickets

New Boost for Renewables, Outsripping Gas and Coal • Marianne Brown

The global energy revolution is unstoppable

Media Worker Faces Jail in Myanmar • Greg Neale

An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International

News From the Grassroots • Greg Neale

A round up of environmental news from around the globe

Future Plans for Resurgence • Greg Neale

Resurgence makes plans for a new chapter

Sun Shines on the Resurgence Camp • Malc Sellars

Reflections on this year's camp

Ecologist

Conflict in a Place of Milk and Money • Charles Lane

Development is threatening the Barabaig pastoralists

All Sett For An Encounter • Kate Blincoe

Badger watching expedition

Trusting and Cultivating the Wild • Vandana Shiva

We must reclaim our future

The Green Lawyer Courting Trouble and Winning • Oliver Tickell

An interview with James Thornton of ClientEarth

Learning from Nature's Laws and Lores • Liz Hosken

A transatlantic quest to spread Indigenous wisdom

Keynotes

Day of the Doughnut • Kate Raworth

The case for sustainability and social justice

Undercurrents

Only Connect • Christine Toomey

Perspectives on consumerism and resources from Tibetan Buddhism's Karmapa

Religion, Rights and Realpolitik • Peter Popham

The dilemmas facing Aung San Suu Kyi

Heroes For Nature • Russell Warfield

Inspirational environmental campaigners

The Crushing Embrace of Mother Earth • Clive Hamilton

The implications of the Anthropocene

Ethical Living

A Taste of Green in the Concrete Jungle • Satish Kumar

For a healthy city, more space should be used to grow food

This Blessed Plot is Brewing • Leo Johnson

Pondering seeds of discontent in the allotment

Slug in the Grass • Matt Harvey

The connection between man and mollusc

A Handbook for Times to Come • Adam Federman

Celebrating the work of pioneering food writer Patience Gray

By the East Lyn River • Peter Reason

Listen to the river

The Arts

Changing Faces • Greg Neale

A documentary photographer records the story of unlikely heroes

Somerset Voices • Kate Lynch

Traditional cider making in the community

A Shockwave For Our Screens • James P Graham

The documentary film A Plastic Ocean uncovers our addiction to plastic

Nature Out of Context • Honor Beddard

The Museum of Modern Nature exhibition aims to change the way we see nature

Off the Wall • Rogan Wolf

A project to bring poetry to a new public

Regulars

Poetry - Celebrating A Sense of Place • Peter Abbs

Poetry and images combine to reveal the splendour of the Glen of Balquhidder

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our Editors

Reviews

Still Thinking Small • Jonathon Porritt

Review of Human Scale Revisited: A New Look at the Classic Case for a Decentralist Future

In the Ending Are the Words • Russell Warfield

Review of Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist

Time To Take Stock • Edward Davey

Review of Thank You For Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Landscape With A Vision • Peter Reason

Review of Existence: A Story

Keeping Faith In Farming • Martin Palmer

Review of Religion and Sustainable Agriculture: World Spiritual Traditions and Food Ethics

Sins and Omissions of the Flesh • Tom Levitt

Review of Personalities on the Plate: The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

Digging In • Barry Cottrell

Review of From the Deep Well: The Diaries of Pratale Farm

Web Exclusives

Review - Cast Away • Charles Clover

Review of Chagos: A History – Exploration, Exploitation, Expulsion

Article - Collaborating for Change • Bruce Nixon

We need a revolution in how we do politics in the UK