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Hikaru Dorodango

Naoto Kanesaka is the director of the Children’s Centre in Kobe City, in Japan’s Hyōgo Prefecture. When studying early years education at university he discovered dorodango, the process of...

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EarthLore

The EarthLore Foundation focuses on helping small farming communities in Zimbabwe and South Africa to revive their traditional farming methods.

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Lo-TEK

Designer and author Julia Watson coined the term Lo-TEK to describe Indigenous technologies that she believes can be adopted more widely to mitigate climate change and build a resilient future.

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Finding God in Nature

Rajender Kumar Bishnoi lives in Dubai, a long way from Rajasthan where he grew up. But he takes the spirit of the Bishnoi community, and the teachings of Shree Guru Jambeshwar, with him.

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Resetting Global Food Systems

As global food systems and supply chains have been disrupted by Covid-19, Francis Mwanza, researcher and writer on African and local foods, and former head of office of the United Nations World...

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Growing Smart

John Francis Serwanga is the hydroponics expert at World Food Programme (WFP). He has over 17 years of experience with hydroponics projects.

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Grown, Cooked and Served

Conor Spacey is the culinary director of FoodSpace Ireland, a catering company with a focus on social responsibility and sustainability that operates throughout Ireland producing over 2m meals a year.

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Striving for Equity

Tim Leeson caught up with Zayaan Khan following the launch of Before Simon’s Bay, a permanent marine and environment exhibition at the Simon’s Town Museum, for which Zayaan was a contributing artist.

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Be the Revolution

Brazilian Indigenous activist, environmentalist, and politician, Sônia Guajajara was born in 1974 on Terra Indígena Araribóia (Araribóia Indigenous Land).

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The Future is Ancestral

Ailton Krenak, born in the Doce River valley in Minas Gerais, is a member of the Krenak people and has become one of the main voices in defence of Indigenous peoples’ rights in Brazil.

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Attuned Landscapes: an Interview with Murray Livingston

Murray Livingston is a South African-born photographer, based in the UK, but currently living on the road in a bespoke van while exploring long-term photography projects throughout Europe.

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Microcultural Revolution

OmVed Gardens’ head chef Jo March caught up with chef, fermentation expert, food scientist and author David Zilber to discuss food culture, existence, symbiosis and harmony.

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THENATUREKIND

I was thinking recently about how brilliant it would be if all future street trees were fruit trees and more public planting was edible.

Susanna Grant is a planting designer who specialises in plants for shady spaces. She runs Linda, a dappled courtyard space in London’s Hackney.
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Voice of An Ancestor

Kendall Francis, a conservation fellow at the National Gallery in London, UK, is researching the legacies of colonialism, slavery and exploitation in artists’ materials.

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Emerging Islands

Emerging Islands, a coastal-based organisation based on the island of Luzon, northern Philippines, explore engagements between artists and grassroots communities.

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Reimagining “What If?”

Rob Hopkins is the co-founder of Transition Network, a global movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world.

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Wild Fermentation

OmVed Gardens’ head chef Jo March caught up with fermentation revivalist and author Sandor Katz to discuss environment, tradition and fermentation as metaphor.

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Ex-Pajé

Perpera Suruí is a former shaman of the Paiter Suruí people, based in the village of Lapetanha, Amazonia, Brazil. Contact was first made with the Paiter Suruí on 7 September 1969.

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