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Earth to Art

Daro Montag’s art practice has seen him take on more assistants than it is possible to count.

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The Wild Inside Us

If we want to help nature to restore itself, we need to start looking at our borders through the eyes of our ecosystems.

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Crossing Borders. From London to Gotland.

Paul Wu and his family left the UK in January 2019, moving from a suburban south London home to a farm on Sweden's largest island.

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Food Identity

More than any other food, vegetables connect us to the seasons and to where we live, and are unique to each region and nation. For a local voice and a global statement on diversity, vegetables...

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The Chef's Manifesto

Our food culture is shaped by many things, but chefs are some of the biggest influencers. Like supermarkets, their choices impact the whole supply chain - from farm to fork - and the very...

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The Compost Connection

Realising that their way of life was affecting both the planet and their own physical and mental health led Amandine, Benoit and their friends to change their lifestyle.

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One With The Elements

The late Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta’s Earth Body series explores life, death and the impermanence of existence, using her own body to create interventions in the landscape.

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End of Life Environmentalism

US environmentalists are challenging established death conventions by demonstrating alternatives to managing the end of life.

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Communing with Nature

Drinking ayahuasca, an hallucinogenic brew made from vines found in the Amazon, is a central part of Indigenous culture in the region that, for better or worse, has become increasingly popular with...

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Banking Our Future

Ethnobotanist Harriet Gendall joins a team of scientists on a quest to bank the endangered flora of Kyrgyzstan. Seed banking can help germinate more meaningful alliances between people and plants.

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Coco De Mer

Horticulturalist Paul Gazerwitz is enchanted by the curiouslife and history of the sea coconut.

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Nuclear plants

Plants have an extraordinary ability to grow and adapt in even the most hostile environments.

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THENATUREKIND

Complex life was possible because of cooperation, of mingling, and testing out how to best thrive together.

Randa has been facilitating foraging and wildcrafting walks for BPOC communities to connect with a sense of ecological belonging in the urban locale.
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The Right Fire

Replacing western fire regimes, based on hazard reduction, with Indigenous fire management methods could help save Australia and improve the environment.

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Back From The Brink

A creative approach to conservation, based on research into the link between nature and wellbeing, delves into how much wild connections matter for us.

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Food for Thought

Community groups and retailers are finding ways to change the way we engage with food and with each other. We examine three urban-focused schemes that are having an impact both locally and globally.

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The Bitter Reality

Research shows that 60% of the world’s 124 wild coffee species are at risk of extinction. Protecting those coffee species, and wild relatives of our food crops is vital for long-term sustainability.

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The Waterfall

The Dutch artist Maurits Escher’s lithograph, Waterfall, is an impossible image. It depicts a waterfall running a mill - the collected water descending only to reach the top of the fall again,...

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