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Welcome
Compassion • Greg Neale
Rising to the challenges of today's world with compassion
Frontline
Compassionate Community Project • Marianne Brown
Tackling loneliness and isolation reduces health bills
News From the Grassroots • Marianne Brown
A round up of environmental news from around the globe
Ancient Forests Safe For Now • Kara Moses & Marianne Brown
European legal ruling may protect Poland's primeval woodland at risk from logging
Journalist Jailed • Greg Neale
An appeal on behalf of a journalist jailed in Turkey over a painting of conflict
Concern Over Wireless Technology • Lynne Wycherley
Reporting on new moves to counter electro-magnetic pollution
Campaign for New Resurgence Centre • Greg Neale
Reader support helps our campaign for a new Resurgence centre for education
Ecologist
Embracing Nature • Andreas Weber
Our delight in Spring reflects our connection with nature
The Telling Sound of Spring • Kate Blincoe
Listening to the song of the skylark
A Shared Path to a Flourishing Food System • Marianne Brown
Factory farms are threatening nature in the wild
A Green Revolution • Neema Pathak Broome & Ashish Kothari
On the gulf between green rhetoric and reality in Ecuador
Keynotes
The Life Required • David W. Orr
At a time of ecological and economic crisis, we must recast our ideas of economics
Undercurrents
Compassion is the Best Medicine • Julian Abel & Lindsay Clarke
A community project is cutting hospital admissions by reducing social isolation
Does My Dog Love Me? • Carl Safina
Acknowledging that animals experience complex emotions can teach us a lot about being human
Making Fashion a Force For Good • Emily Jupp
Reporting on a campaign to improve conditions for garment workers
Ethical Living
The True Meaning of Economy • Satish Kumar
For a better world we need to reject the illusion of limitless economic growth
Local Spirit • Helen Iles
The winemakers of Catalan on the call for independence and its impact on their livelihoods
Seeing and Feeling Ourselves in Others • Leo Johnson
Stories of empathy and understanding
Return to the whole • Peter Reason
A brief pause
Poetry To Go • Matt Harvey
Offering bespoke verse to order
The Arts
Festival of the Faiths • Simon Broughton
An annual celebration of sacred music in Fez
We Need to Rewild the Novel • Gregory Norminton
A call for a greening of new fiction
Organic Forms From the Earth Itself • Philip Vann
The archetypal sculpture of Ken Smith
Regulars
Poetry - A Vision of Awe, From An Island Eden • Peter Abbs
Reappraising the eco-poetry of Edwin Muir
Letters to the Editors
A selection of letters from our readers
Reviews
Worlds Unto Themselves • Michael McCarthy
Review of Islander: A Journey Around Our Archipelago
A Premier and A Conservationist • Mark Tully
Review of Indira Gandhi: A Life in Nature
A Visual Tale of Society, Politics and Prophecy • PL Henderson
Review of Youth Unemployment
The Alternative? We Need New Stories • Russell Warfield
Review of Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Planetary Communism • Adam Thorpe
Review of Humankind: Solidarity with Non-human people
A Nourishing Read • Sara Melendro
Review of Fertile Edges: Regenerating Land, Culture and Hope
Web Exclusives
Article - A Manifesto for Compassionate Communities • Julian Abel & Lindsay Clarke
A call to create more compassionate communities
Article - Standing Together to Defend the Sacred • Sue Bayliss
Reporting from Portugal on environmental and indigenous activism
Article - We Need a Schools Revolution • Fiona Carnie
Schools should be ethical, inclusive and equitable
Article - Ocean Plastic • Oliver Tickell
We don't need more Resolutions, Declarations and Conventions; we need more action
Article - Follow Your Bliss . . .or Follow Your Blisters? • Will Gethin
Will Gethin explores mythologist Joseph Campbell’s mantra for a meaningful life.
