Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 311 • November/December 2018

All Is One

Inside this issue

Welcome

All Is One • Marianne Brown

Celebrating a sense of unity

Frontline

The World is Waking Up as Disaster Looms • Tony Juniper

Despite extinction and deforestation there is cause for hope

Zero Waste • Rachelle Strauss

Tips on how to minimise waste in the season of excess

Protecting Our Seas • Marianne Brown

Profiling projects working to clean up and look after our seas

News from Resurgence • Marianne Brown

Resurgence Building for the future - new centre update

News From the Grass Roots • Marianne Brown

Highlights from environmental projects around the world

Ecologist

The Wild Frontier • Ros Coward

Reporting from a controversial ecological project in the Netherlands

Between the Crosses • Kate Blincoe

Sowing seeds for the future

Tribute to a Hero of Organic Farming • Satish Kumar

Honouring the former director of Greenpeace, Lord Peter Melchett

When Green is Too White • Zion Lights

The need for accountability across the charity sector

Keynotes

A New Beginning to an Old Story • Michael Barrett

Looking again at the ancient origins narrative in the Christian tradition

Undercurrents

A Maori Tradition Helps Heal Families • Andrew Papworth & Tim Fisher

Addressing family conflicts is having a positive effect on children

Homeopathy on the Farm and Homeopathy as the Best Medicine • Christine Lees

Feature article and an interview on the use of homeopathy in farming today.

Finding the Plot • PL Henderson

A historical guerrilla movement could create positive outcomes for the UK's housing crisis

The Story of a Recoverable Earth • Paul Jepson

An new environmental narrative could provide the hope we need to make a change

Ethical Living

Positive Steps for Change • Sue Kittow

Pilgrims walking for a better world

Searching for the Source • Peter Reason

Searching for the source of the River Avon

Tell Me A Poet • Matt Harvey

An encounter with a hitchhiker

Parts of the Whole • Satish Kumar

Embracing spirituality with a scientific mind

Savouring Simple Pleasures • Carole Bamford

Transforming seasonal leftovers into a winter treat

Appetite for Happiness • Leo Johnson

Pickled walnuts and peach crumble provide food for thought

The Arts

In Pursuit of Oneness • India Windsor-Clive

Exploring the work of abstract artist Hilma af Klint

Waking Up to the Lessons of a Briar Rose • Tim Batchelor

Welcoming a new exhibition of the work of Edward Burne-Jones

A Stitch In Time • Marianne Brown

Reporting on a project breathing life back into pieces of historic knitwear

Regulars

Poetry - For Every Thing That Lives is Holy • Peter Abbs

A celebration of William Blake as Romantic eco-poet

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our editors

Reviews

Catching Killers and Learning to Love Them • Paul Brown

Review of Ocra: How We Came to Know and Love the Ocean's Greatest Predator

Mind the Gap • Russell Warfield

Review of Peak Inequality: Britain's Ticking Time Bomb

Plenty of Buzz • Philip Strange

Review of Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

Switching On the Green Mind • Jules Pretty

Review of The Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Healthier and More Creative and The Biophilia Effect: A Scientific and Spritual Exploration of the Healing Bond Between Humans and Nature

India's Poisoned Holy Waters • Mark Tully

Review of River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future

How to Avoid the Tyranny of Take-Away Cutlery • Edward Davey

Review of How To Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World One Plastic Bottle at a Time

Time and Tide • Oliver Tickell

Review of No. More. Plastic: What You Can Do to Make a Difference

Web Exclusives

Article - Celebrating Death And Life During The Festival Of Samhain • Maddy Harland

Renewing our seasonal connection with Nature through a traditional celebration.

Article - Building Northern Ireland’s First Community-Owned Farm • Jonny Hanson

Why a Christian environmental and agricultural organisation is helping set up Northern Ireland’s first community-owned farm

Article - A New Report Maps Hope For A Zero Carbon Future • Paul Allen

Summer 2018 will go down in history as the moment that humanity awoke to the urgency of the climate crisis

Review - Too big for the world they entered • Peter Reason

Review of Landfill