Courage

Contents

Welcome

Courage • Marianne Brown

Now, more than ever, we need to muster our courage to make change

Frontline

We Need a Peaceful Uprising • Gail Bradbrook

The only way to step back from catastrophe is through civil disobedience

Building Momentum to Help Hedgehogs • Hugh Warwick

Making new-builds hedgehog friendly

Rewilding Britain Launches Ambitious Project in Wales • Kara Moses

The first landscape-scale restoration project is cause for hope

News from Resurgence • Marianne Brown

Films for the Future and other project updates

News From the Grass Roots • Marianne Brown

Projects linking environment, health and wellbeing

Ecologist

Another Chance to Live • Maurice Frank

Reporting on a growing movement to protect Germany's Hambach Forest

Utopia With Teeth • Dave Sewell

How 'Zone to Defend' became a beacon of hope in France

Get Up, Stand Up • Natalie Bennett

Protest is the key to protecting our planet

Born to Be Wild • Kate Blincoe

Nature watching at a seal rookery

Keynotes

Equality of Life: A Vision For the Future • Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson

Inequality is making us ill and destroying the planet, but we can redress the balance

Undercurrents

The Definition of Happiness • Russell Warfield

An interview with feminist academic and author Lynne Segal

The Countryside is For Everyone • Louisa Adjoa Parker

We need to challenge the idea of Britain's 'white landscape'

Bathing In Connection • Michelle Brenner

Forest Therapy and the beauty instinct

Ethical Living

A Train of Thought • Matt Harvey

A question from a stranger sparks ideas

Eggless Eggs and Subversive Potatoes • Leo Johnson

Ruminations on the role of government

Soil: The Magic Ingredient • Satish Kumar

Radical farming and wholesome food

Midwinter Light and Shadow • Peter Reason

Watching low sun on an orchard wall

Where the Gas is Greener • Marianne Brown

Dale Vince, founder of Ecotricity, shares his thoughts on energy policy

The Arts

The Region of Ice and Snow • Adrian Cooper

The changing perceptions of Antarctica

Call of the Wild • Norman Ackroyd

A new exhibition showcasing the work of printmaker Norman Ackroyd

The Connecting Thread • Alice Kettle

Solidarity with refugees and displaced people

Soul Building • Victoria Manthorpe

Eco-architect Christopher Day on authentic design

Regulars

Poetry - In the Dead of Winter, Life Begins Again • Peter Abbs

Moments of transformation and hope

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our editors

Reviews

Where Human and Animal Meet • Huw Wahl

Review of Film review: Becoming Animal

Living In the Shadow of Winter • Jane MacNamee

Review of The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal

Tracing A Green Grace • Lynne Wycherley

Review of Christina Rossetti: Poetry, Ecology, Faith

Order Out of Chaos • Michael McCarthy

Review of The Wonderful Mr Willughby: The First True Ornithologist

An Unexpected Life Story • Satish Kumar

Review of Dear John: The Road to Pelindaba

Nuclear Reactor • Horatio Morpurgo

Review of Film review: Wackersdorf

From the Ground Up • Sara Melendro

Review of Dirt to Soil: One Family's Journey into Regenerative Agriculture

Web Exclusives

Article - Bringing the Classroom Back to Life • Jonathan Dawson

Challenging today's dominant educational paradigm and finding alternatives

Article - Letting the Levain do the Work • Satish Kumar

Satish shares Andy Cato's recipe for 'slow' bread