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The Colour of Transformation

Through the metaphor of butterfly metamorphosis, a documentary shares new perspectives on nature from seven global majority women pioneers who work in land justice and biodiversity conservation.

— Issue #13
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Children of the Anthropocene

Instead of questioning the ethics of having children in a climate crisis, is it time we focused on creating a loving society and shifting our attitudes on care?

— Issue #13
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Rights and Responsibilities

Native American lawyer, author, teacher and activist Sherri Mitchell proposes how we can take back our power and build a rights-based society that is balanced, just and harmonious.

— Issue #13
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My World Your World

In an extract from her latest book, Beastly: A New History of Animals and Us, Keggie Carew unearths a remarkable tale of kinship between animals and humans in the Białowieża Forest.

— Issue #14
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We did not leave, we are here. We will return. It is our soil.

Erkan Affan journeys to their family’s home in the aftermath of the Earthquake in Turkey and Syria and unpacks how it impacted marginalised Indigenous communities, including their own.

— Issue #14
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The Gut Soil Connection

From live cultures to permaculture, soil health and human gut health are intrinsically and ancestrally linked.

— Issue #14
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In Our Bones

Drawing from her book Umbigo do Mundo (Navel of the World), Indigenous anthropologist and researcher Francy Fontes Baniwa presents some of the myths of her people

— Issue #14
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From the Earthworm to the Economy

Nihal Ellegala created the spice agroforestry project Eko Land Produce on his ancestral land in Sri Lanka to connect and protect local farmers, families and their forests.

— Issue #14
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Healing By Design

How design can be used to reimagine our approach to healing through the use of plant-based materials.

— Issue #15
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Digging Deep

A group for Black men in Toronto is using sustainable gardening to reconnect participants with nature and start conversations about mental wellness and positive masculinity.

— Issue #15
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The Wisdom of Peach Trees

How thinking about conservation brought Millo Ankha closer to the ancestral knowledge of her community, the Apatanis.

— Issue #15
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Make Me Good Soil

Writer Sophie Strand discusses the myth of the healthy self and why she advocates a view of mind and body as part of a broader web of relations with the world around us.

— Issue #15
THENATUREKIND

Music and art is about frequencies and connections, which we get from nature.

Love Ssega is a musician and artist. His work as the original frontman and founding songwriter for Clean Bandit landed in the UK charts and has also been performed globally.
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Plant Teachers

To heal ourselves and the planet, is it time to tread more quietly to hear the lessons from the more-than-human world?

— Issue #15
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Of Love, Land and Labour

How Black people and people of colour are shifting the narrative around farming and land use in Britain.

— Issue #15
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The Queer Pluriverse

How queer ways of living and loving could provide realisable models for a pluriversal future.

— Issue #16
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Archipelago of Care

How contemporary artists are working with the environment to co-create with nature, bridging the islands in the archipelago of the human and more-than-human world.

— Issue #16
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Finding Pluriversal Paths

The book Pluriverse - A Post-Development Dictionary, which this feature is extracted from, is an act of renewal and repoliticisation, where “the political” means a collaboration among dissenting...

— Issue #16