A Lot on Our Plates

Contents

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