Inspired to Action
Issue 310 • September/October 2018
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Welcome
Making Connections and Making Waves • Greg Neale
Relationship and interdependence are fundamental concepts of ecology
Frontline
A round up of environmental stories • Marianne Brown
Hedgehogs, seabirds and medicinal plants
News from the Grassroots • Marianne Brown
A round up of environmental news from around the globe
Tess Tennant Obituary • Greg Neale
A tribute to a tireless activist, ethical campaigner and green investment pioneer
News from Resurgence • Greg Neale
Forthcoming Resurgence events: Festival of Wellbeing and Fundraising Dinner
Ecologist
Five Steps to Save Our Seas • Bianca Jagger
Calling for a concerted effort to tackle plastic pollution in our oceans
Cyclones, Speedboats and Rising Tides • Thembi Mutch
Ocean conservation will only succeed if local knowledge is valued
The Light of Dark • Kate Blincoe
A night out with bats and constellations for company
Deep Trouble • Oliver Tickell
A marine biologist with tales of woe and wonder from the sea
Keynotes
Science, Spirituality and Religion • Fritjof Capra
New scientific discoveries reveal connections with a spiritual life
Undercurrents
Lessons From the Peoples of the Land • Gleb Raygorodetsky
What can we learn from Indigenous cultures about responses to climate change?
Greens Count the Cost of Power Sharing • Richard Orange
Coalition blues at the polls in Sweden
Representing the People • Joanna Blundell
Profiles of three women activists
Turn Off, Tune In: A Lesson in Learning • Kim Samuel
Schools and universities need to cut down on wifi
The Standing Stones • Miriam Darlington
Exploring the wild on the not so wild on the Scilly Isles
Ethical Living
Nuclear Families • Marianne Brown
An award-winning show by Jenna Watt is raising the profile of the nuclear debate
The Thing Is - But Where? • Matt Harvey
Waxing lyrical over leopards, wet-wipes and words
To Bend with Apples • Peter Reason
Enjoying the mellow fruitfulness of Autumn
A Dream of Ecological Civilisation • Satish Kumar
A time of change in China
Life, the Universe and Pickled Walnuts • Leo Johnson
Deep thoughts about artificial intelligence
The Arts
Putting the Ark into Architecture • Victoria Manthorpe
Profiling three architects who have climate change on their minds
Mystic of the Mesa • James Clarke
Mary Hunter Austin was one of the first writers to celebrate Native American sacred sites
A Life Suspended between Heaven and Earth • Simon Broughton
The Greek monasteries of Meteora
Regulars
Poetry - In Praise of Solidarity • Peter Abbs
New poetic voices for social justice
Letters to the Editors
A selection of letters to our editors
Reviews
One Good Life, Two Systems • Christine Toomey
Review of More than Happiness: Buddhist and Stoic Wisdom for a Sceptical Age
Black and White and Green • Peter Reason
Review of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature
Why Don't We Change? • Satish Kumar
Review of What Are You Doing With Your Life?
Once Upon a Thyme • Jini Reddy
Review of Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland
New Politics For The Coming Crisis • Brendan Montague
Review of Down To Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime and The Shock Doctrine of the Left
A World Closer to Nature • Michael McCarthy
Review of Birds in the Ancient World: Winged Words
The Silence of Owls • Miriam Darlington
Review of Owl Sense
Web Exclusives
Article - Living Creatively • Chris Brogan
Understanding the developmental psychology of Donald Winnicott
Article - A Kind of Belonging • Andrew Rumsey
A place for the Parish
Article - Fresh Perception: Cultivating Intimacy with the Radiant Earth • Felicia Norton & Charles Smith
Deep reflection and meditation opens new possibilities and ways to protect the Earth.