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Immersion
In this issue of Resurgence & Ecologist we explore the theme of Immersion and look at how walking for protest or pleasure, trespass or treat is always an invitation to immerse ourselves in Nature. In our themed section Nick Hayes writes about The Right to Adventure and Jonathon Turnbull explores the wild spaces of Kyiv.
In our feature story Ginny Battson dives into the life-enhancing flow of fluminism – those multiple symbiotic processes that sustain all life – and calls on us to nurture the deepest possible respect and responsibility for all life, acknowledging that we are all kin.
In the Ecologist pages Catherine Early talks to Paul Gilding, former head of Greenpeace, about why cutting methane emissions should be a priority; whilst in Connected Life Yasmin Dahnoun finds resilience and hope in a documentary film that explores the impact of climate change on the women of a pastoral community in Malawi.
In Wisdom and Wellbeing, Katherine Aalto considers gardens as a place of sanctuary to the bereaved, and Satish Kumar re-imagines a conversation between Buddha and his son. PL Henderson discovers how the transient works of sculptor Maria Bartuszová can evoke a passage of being, in our Arts and Culture section.
Highlights
- Labour’s Energy Dilemma: Chris Saltmarsh
- The Secret World of Soil: Marissa Land
- Home: Ginny Battson
- The Right to Adventure: Nick Hayes
- Trods, Trails and Tracks: Stephanie Boxall
- Nature as a Spiritual Teacher: Satish Kumar
Featured articles
Labour's Energy Dilemma
Private energy firms have extracted huge profits while customers' bills have skyrocketed. It is clear that the private sector, left to its own devices, has abjectly failed to invest in the transition from fossil fuels to renewables. The Labour Party has recognised the need for intervention, but are their plans too little, too late? Chris Saltmarsh reports.
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The Secret World of Soil
Nature writer Marissa Land joins eco-acoustics specialist Marcus Maeder for a bio-acoustics tour of the world beneath our feet. She discovers a world that is delightfully alien and alive and concludes, "The sounds of soils aren't just enhancing our knowledge of biodiversity. They're giving a voice to a realm that, to most of us, sits intangible and imperceptible beneath our feet."
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Trods, Trails and Tracks
Stephanie Boxall uncovers stories of our collective heritage as she walks along pathways from the past to the present. She reports on the successful campaign to find and record lost footpaths - footpaths that have the potential to increase the path network in England and Wales by a third.
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Soft Fascination
Scientists have now caught up with the fact that time spent in Nature is good for our wellbeing. Amy-Jane Beer explores what it is about running water that makes us feel so alive. She looks at how, in the modern world, we have forgotten that access to running water is a privilege, "We have forgotten where water comes from and where it goes. We have forgotten that water is sacrosanct."
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A Darkening Terrain
In recent years there has been a spate of fiction about the climate emergency. Nick Hunt explores the role that fiction can play in navigating through these times of great uncertainty and disruption. He acknowledges that the current state of 'Unravelling' can be too perplexing for our imaginations to grasp and asks, "Who knows where the story we are telling ourselves will end?"
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The Colour of its Voice
Poet Emma Must gives an insight into the poetry that emerged from her participation in the anti-road protests at Twyford Down in the early 1990s. She shares why, after years as a full-time campaigner, she decided to stop being an activist in order to focus on writing poetry - "I had a visceral need to create something rather than constantly trying to stop things being destroyed".
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Picture Credits
Cover Image: Painting by Vitaliia Kalmutska Instagram; Labour's Energy Dilemma: Illustration © Otto Dettmer / Ikon Images; The Secret World of Soil Illustration by RedLouise Hung Instagram; Trods, Trails and Tracks: Illustration by Holly Astle; Soft Fascination: Skomakerdiket, oil on panel, by Ruth Murray; A Darkening Terrain: Like a Forgotten Thought by Deborah DeWit; The Colour of its Voice: Photo © Alex MacNaughton; Within the Climate Emergency: Photo © Dellarious / Mike Dellaria
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Welcome
Immersion • Susan Clark
An invitation to immerse ourselves in Nature
Regulars
Community - News from the Resurgence Community • Susan Clark
Award winning project and grateful thanks
Letters to the Editors - Letters to the Editor
A selection of letters to the Editor
Archive - Marching for Justice • Helena Drakakis
How a people's movement based on walking brought change
Ecologist
Ecologist Editor's Picks • Brendan Montague
Top stories from The Ecologist environmental news website
Who Owns the Wind? • James Marriott
Who is really reaping the benefits from a new offshore wind farm in the North Sea?
Labour's Energy Dilemma • Chris Saltmarsh
Labour's planned interventions in the energy market don't go far enough
Methane Holds the Key • Catherine Early
Former head of Greenpeace on why cutting methane emissions should be a priority now
Connected life
A Rooted Language of Food • Carwyn Graves
The interweaving of language and food offers true sustenance
The Voices of the Women Facing Climate Change • Yasmin Dahnoun
Film-maker Raj Patel hands the climate change narrative to the women of a Malawi village
The Secret World of Soil • Marissa Land
Diving into eco-acoustics to listen in on the sounds of the soil
Feature articles
Home • Ginny Battson
The philosophy of Fluminism respects the symbiotic flow between all things
Immersion
Immersed in Walking • Susan Clark
Walking for protests or pleasure is always an invitation to immerse ourselves in Nature
The Right To Adventure • Nick Hayes
Without a truly experiential connection to Nature how can we care for and about it
Trods, Trails and Tracks • Stephanie Boxall
Uncovering stories of our collective heritage along pathways from the past to the present
Into the Kyiv Thickets • Jonathon Turnbull
These wild spaces of Kyiv were once places of refuge. Now they are mined and booby-trapped
Soft Fascination • Amy-Jane Beer
Exploring what it is about flowing water that makes us feel so alive
Walk to the Country, Talk to the Country
Indigenous voices share their walking stories to reveal the power of talking to the land
Wisdom and wellbeing
A Darkening Terrain • Nick Hunt
How fiction might help us navigate environmental loss
Vanishing Species • Beatrice Forshall
We can make a difference, but only when we act together
Grief and the Garden • Kathryn Aalto
Gardens can offer sanctuary for the bereaved
Nature as a Spiritual Teacher • Satish Kumar
A conversation between Buddha and his son Rahul
Art and culture
Solidity and Delicacy • PL Henderson
How the transient works of sculptor Maria Bartuszová can evoke a passage of being
The Colour of its Voice • Emma Must
An insight into poetry that emerged from campaigning at Twyford Down in the early 1990s
Reviews
Love Letters to the Forests • Edward Davey
Review of Ever Green: Saving Big Forests to Save the Planet and The Lost Rainforests of Britain
The Third Runway Saga • Anna Hughes
Review of Expansion Rebellion: Using the Law to Fight a Runway and Save the Planet
What's Big and Scary? • Diyora Shadijanova
Review of Yikes
Within the Climate Emergency • Russell Warfield
Review of The Climate Book
The Real Change-makers • Chris Saltmarsh
Review of Climate Change as Class War: Building Socialism on a Warming Planet
Purpose and Magic • Hugh Warwick
Review of Fledgling
The Voice of a River • Gerald Taylor Aiken
Review of The Po: An Elegy for Italy's Longest River
