A Lot on Our Plates
Issue 318 • January/February 2020

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Welcome
We Are What We Eat • Marianne Brown
Lifestyle changes for a new decade
Frontline
Bolsonaro wins 'Racist of the Year' award • Marianne Brown
Indigenous leaders are touring Europe
Reconnecting with Nature in the Ashes of War • Catherine Early
Reporting on the work of award-winning environmentalist Adjany Costa
News from Resurgence • Marianne Brown
Resurgence updates and other stories
News From the Grassroots • Marianne Brown
A round up of environmental news stories
Education for Climate Change • Marianne Brown
Education policy fit for a state of climate emergency
Ecologist
Big Steps Small Footprints • Anna Turns
Investigating Costa Rica's eco-credentials
Hiding Treasure • Carlien Bootsma
Returning flat oysters to the North Sea
Rising Up In Vietnam • Alexandra Sisophon
A new wave of environmental protests
Achieving a Just Transition • Nick Robins
Only a people-first approach will succeed
Planning a Just Future for Scotland • Catherine Early
Young people need to be involved in a just transition
A Lot To Learn • Dave Goulson
Can allotments save the Earth?
Keynotes
Flying In The Face of Reason • Calum Harvey-Scholes
How the aviation industry is frying our planet and what we can do about it
Undercurrents
Veganism - Food For Thought • Brendan Montague
Reasons to go vegan
Veganism - The Long Journey Beyond Veganuary • Marianne Brown
Broadcaster Chris Packham shares vegan journey
Veganism - An Alternative Worldview • Shaina Rogstad
Speciesism lies at the heart of the climate crisis
Veganism - What's the Beef? • Brendan Montague
Reporting on recent research
Veganism - Soul Food • Marianne Brown
Discovering why more Jains are giving up dairy
Veganism - Eyes on the Pies • Brendan Montague
Lifting the lid on a family-run business
Veganism - In the Running • Fiona Oakes
A world record-holding athlete and accidental activist shares her story
Veganism - Old Versus New • Tara Garnett
Polarised thinking will get us nowhere
Wisdom and Wellbeing
A Hearty Bean-feast • Miriam Sorrell
Creating a vegan fusion of deliciousness
Conversations with a Tree • Peter Reason
Connecting with the presence and beauty of the sentient world
Comedy of Whirrers • Matt Harvey
A poetic response to the controversy of wind turbines
Trees Are Our Teachers • Satish Kumar
Musings on the wisdom of a humble apple seed
The Highest Form of Spirituality • Claudia Goncalves
Celebrating the power of activism
The Arts
A Common Thread • PL Henderson
Comparing the work of May Morris and Vanessa Barragão
A Question of Style • Maria C Havstam & Franz P Schmidt
Setting the scene for an exhibition challenging the concept of fast fashion
Reviews
Your House is a Jungle • Anne Sverdup-Thygeson
Review of Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
Going Native • Kate Blincoe
Review of Invasive Aliens: The Plants and Animals From Over There That Are Over Here
Celebrating 'Old Nature Writing' • Stephen Moss
Review of The House Without Windows and The Outermost House: A Year of Life on the Great Beach of Cape Cod
Putting a Price on Nature • Sara Melendro
Review of Green and Prosperous Land: A Blueprint for Rescuing the British Countryside
Eating for a Cooler Planet • Russell Warfield
Review of We Are The Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast
Two Brains Are Better Than One • Nat Dyer
Review of The Divided Brain
What is Good For the Meadow • Jules Cashford
Review of Thomas Berry: A Biography