Light in Dark Days

Contents

Welcome

Light in Dark Days • Greg Neale

The human spirit and the natural world still give us hope

Frontline

End of the Road for Petrol Cars? • Marianne Brown

New British, French and Italian initiatives

A Root Cause • Marianne Brown

A new charter aims to reconnect people with trees

Bid to Ban Livestock Drug that Kills Vultures • Kara Moses

A new campaign to ban a product linked to bird decline

Street Artist at Risk in Cuba • Greg Neale

An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International

News From the Grassroots • Marianne Brown

A round up of environmental news from around the globe

New Season set for Resurgence Talks • Greg Neale

Resurgence talks planned for 2018

Obituaries • Greg Neale

Honouring the lives of Heathcote Williams and Sue Steward

Ecologist

There's a Way: Now We Need the Will • Oliver Tickell

International Law can tackle plastic pollution

Space Invaders • Bradley Garrett

Our public spaces are in peril

Celebrating the Road to Nowhere • Erlend Clouston

In celebration of the work of author Nan Shepherd

Coming Together In the Hood • Kate Blincoe

Inspired by like-minded molluscs

A Voice for Common Good • Robin Le Mare

The work of unorthodox economist Elinor Ostrom is more relevant now than ever

Keynotes

Rebuilding with a Sense of Belonging • George Monbiot

A call for a new ecological society

Undercurrents

A Faith and the Power of Nature • Malise Ruthven

The environmental teachings of Islam

I Have No Enemies, and No Hatred • Liu Xiaobo

The moving testament of Chinese activist Liu Xiaobo

Changing The World A Stitch At A Time • Sarah Corbett

Craftivism - the art of gentle protest

Terracotta Horses • Simon Broughton

Exploring the Ayyanar temples of Southern India

Ethical Living

A Deeper Appreciation of Nature • Satish Kumar

Reverence is the key to understanding our place in the world

Reasons to Be Cheerful • Leo Johnson

Inspired by a damselfly

A Moving Poem • Matt Harvey

Musings on the meaning of a home

Green Tea for the Soul • Stephan Harding

Uplifted by a tea ceremony at Dartington's Zen garden

A Place of Greater Calm • Peter Reason

Walk, and wait, in woodland

The Arts

Art Against War • Greg Neale

A Syrian exile's images of protest at his nation's suffering

The Earth in their Hands • India Windsor-Clive

Exploring the work of two ceramicists from Japan inspired by the nature of their materials

Weapons of artistic expression • Thembi Mutch

Profiling artists in war-shattered Mozambique

Regulars

Poetry - Rehabilitating a visionary • Peter Abbs

Revisiting the work of D H Lawrence

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our Editors

Reviews

Branching Out • Hugo Davenport

Review of The Songs of the Trees; Oak and Ash and Thorn; Nature's Temples

Playing The Trump Card • Russell Warfield

Review of No Is Not Enough

Up Close and Beautiful • Horatio Morpurgo

Review of Eye for Detail: Images of Plants and Animals in Art and Science 1500-1630

Within City Limits • Herbert Girardet

Review of Cool Cities: Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming

Under Pressure • Peter Reason

Review of Where the Wild Winds Are: Walking Europe's Winds from the Pennines to Provence

A Touch of Winter in August • Marianne Brown

Review of Among the Summer Snows

Digging for Black Gold • Christine Toomey

Review of Oaks and the Apennines: Truffle Cultivation, Heritage Foods, Sustainability and Well-Being in Italy

Casting Nature's Spells • Marianne Brown

Review of The Lost Words

Web Exclusives

Article - How Should We Teach Climate Change in Schools • David Hicks

Why we need a four-fold approach to a subject many adults shun.

Article - Only Frugality offers us a sustainable and contented future • Peter Strother

A vision of a better life, for us and our planet.

Article - Big Data Doesn't Add Up - Except to Disaster • Vandana Shiva

The world is in an agricultural crisis

Review - The Trickster • Lorna Howarth

Review of A Dance with Hermes