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Building back hope
In this issue, we look at a ‘Green Recovery’. It can be easy to feel that ‘building back better’ is an impossible dream, but as our feature articles show, we are already building the foundations.
We hear from Change the Rules, a project mapping communities developing local economic models to protect the planet. Jonathan Neale explores the need for global solidarity over ‘climate jobs’ to forge a green transition, and think tank ‘Common Wealth’ helps us visualise what tenement life in Glasgow would look like under a green recovery.
Lesley Riddoch calls for a renaissance of the Scottish hut to better connect us with Nature, and Katie Dancey-Downs describes how young people are setting the stage for eco-activism in theatres.
By connecting with each other to rebuild our communities and connection with Nature, we can create a Green Recovery and show others what a better future can look like.
We hope you enjoy our selection of free articles from this issue of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine.
Highlights
- Defending our Forests: Helen Dancer
- A Questions of Development: Tsitsina Xavante
- Reframing Economics: Herbert Girardet
- A Call for Green Sabbaths: Jonathan Schorsch
- The Fabric of Resilience: Claire Wellesley-Smith
Featured articles
Defending our Forests
Helen Dancer invites us to rethink the Rights of Nature. Is this the most effective way to protect the environment? Can we reimagine how ecological approaches to law can be developed, and how power can be shared more equitably for the benefit of the natural world?
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Cabin Fever
Research has demonstrated the health benefits of time spent in Nature. What better time to find space to reconnect and enjoy time in the wild? Taking inspiration from Nordic tradition, Lesley Riddoch calls for a revival of wooden huts - as place to retreat from our busy lives.
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Reframing Economics
Perpetual economic growth is impossible on a finite planet. To move beyond the current economic paradigm, we need a fundamental rethink. Herbert Girardet puts forward a 12-point plan to reframe economics with human wellbeing and healthy ecosystems at the core.
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Working For A Future
How can we tackle climate change and create a more just world? Jonathan Neale calls for an ambitious, solidarity movement focused on creating 'climate jobs' across the globe and argues that, "People in the south will be lost without a mass radical movement in the north".
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Words of the Wise
Miguel Mendonça reflects on a turbulent year and searches for solace in wisdom. He seeks out the wise, and asks, "What is wisdom?" and "Who are the wisest right now?". He emerges from this journey with an empowering perspective to share.
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Staging the Climate Storm
It's not always easy for theatre-makers to depict environmental issues. Playwrite and activist Polly Creed finds a way to link environmental and social concerns in a dramatic retelling of events in Brightlingsea, Essex - where activists stopped live animal exports in 1995.
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Picture Credits
Cover image: Illustration by Cécile Girardin @cecilegirardin; Defending our Forests: Arboreal 2 by Andy Lovell andylovell.co.uk; Cabin Fever: Spilled Sunlight by Cat Moore; Reframing Economics: Illustration © Matt Harrison Clough / Ikon Images; Working For A Future: Illustration by Sjoerd van Leeuwen; Words of the Wise: Flow, woodblock print © Abigail Wilson, 2019; Staging the Climate Storm: Photograph © Ali Wright Photography
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Welcome
Green Recovery • Marianne Brown
We can create a better future by connecting with Nature and each other
Frontline
Fighting for Clean Air • Isabella Kaminski
An interview with Anjali Raman-Middleton, co-founder of Choked Up
Legal protection for Nature • Marianne Brown
Landmark legal action on climate change, and renewed calls to protect Nature
News on Beavers • Marianne Brown
Challenging the policy on beavers, plus news from the Beaver Trust
News from the Grassroots • Marianne Brown
A round up of environmental news
Ecologist
Defending our Forests • Helen Dancer
Are Rights of Nature the answer?
A Question of Development • Tsitsina Xavante
To look forward, Brazil has to accept its violent past
All the World in a Welsh Black Oat • Andy Pilsbury & Hannibal Rhoades
A photo essay from the Gaia Foundation
A Plant of Good Fortune • Jonathan Drori
Extolling the virtue of clover
Cabin Fever • Lesley Riddoch
Calling for a renaissance of the Scottish hut
All Aboard • Richard Collins
Building a boat has connected people with their home and its history
Keynotes
A Call for Green Sabbaths • Jonathan Schorsch
A weekly day of rest is an environmental remedy
Undercurrents
Green Recovery - A Fairer Future Beyond Covid • Clifford Singer
Communities are already leading the way
Green Recovery - Putting Change on the Map • Clifford Singer
Celebrating communities forging a sustainable future
Green Recovery - Reframing Economics • Herbert Girardet
A 12-point plan for recovery
Green Recovery - Working For A Future • Jonathan Neale
We need global solidarity over 'climate jobs'
Green Recovery - On the Money • Russell Warfield
A new report 'The Inequality Virus' calls for lasting structural change
Green Recovery - Visualising the Future • Marianne Brown
Glasgow gets a glimpse of what could be
Wisdom and wellbeing
Legacy of Love • Satish Kumar
Reflections on politics and poetry
The Fabric of Resilience • Claire Wellesley-Smith
Sharing a project connecting people, place and plants
Women of Words • Katharine Norbury
Setting the scene for a new anthology
Words of the Wise • Miguel Mendonça
A search for wisdom
The Arts
Acting for the Earth • Katie Dancey-Downs
Young actors are bringing eco-activism to the theatre
Staging the Climate Storm • Polly Creed
Theatre-makers have a duty to raise the alarm
Containers Matter • Dougald Hine
Exploring an exhibition by Baldwin & Guggisberg
A Corridor Through Time • Marianne Brown
We talk to Will Coleman about a record-breaking labyrinth
Regulars
Letters to the Editors - Letters to the Editor
A selection of letters from our readers
Reviews
Growing Pains • Molly Scott Cato
Review of Exploring Degrowth: A Critical Guide, and Post-Growth Living: For an Alternative Hedonism
How Can We Agree? • Brendan Montague
Review of How to Disagree: Negotiating Difference in a Divided World
From the Beginning • Matt Hawkins
Review of I Am Greta: B-Reel Films
Home Alone • Russell Warfield
Review of The Lonely Century: Coming Together in a World That's Pulling Apart
Small, Wonderful World • Kate Blincoe
Review of A Still Life: A Memoir
Migration: A Climate Solution • Minnie Rahman
Review of The Next Great Migration: The Story of Movement on a Changing Planet
