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The camera dangles from the ceiling. Its strap is precariously wrapped around my bedroom lamp. The lens points downward, towards me. I only have a rough idea of what this looks like, but I press...

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Features

Wild Arrows

An ongoing series of films combines Indigenous knowledge with western scientific and philosophical perspectives to show the wonder of the interconnected world.

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Interviews

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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Features

XAPIRI

Joseca is a Yanomami artist who lives in the Amazon rainforest, Brazil, between the states of Amazonas and Roraima. His drawings combine images of shamanic spirits with scenes from daily forest life.

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Poems

What Can’t Be Taken

Poem by Andrea Gibson

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Interviews

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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Essays

Grasping the Nettle

When Aletta Harrison moved from nature-rich South Africa to Britain, she found a sense of belonging in an unexpected place – Kent’s ‘weed’-filled hedgerows.

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Features

Alive and Enchanted

The UK lacks forest. Regeneration offers a chance to move beyond current systems and create a soul connection with woodlands - a chance to rejoin nature.

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Langar

At Sikh temples, food is provided to any and all who wish to eat, regardless of faith or identity. Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck looks at the practice of Langar as a model of inclusion and compassion.

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Features

Dreaming in Sci-Fi

Addressing climate breakdown will require transformational shifts in our politics and culture. A few lessons from science fiction’s imaginative explorations could help.

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Features

Growing Hope

How Syrians displaced by war have adapted to their new ways of living, just like the fungi they are now cultivating for their survival.

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When Seeing the World As Alive Is Called Madness

How silent observations and deep kinship with the non-human world aids in the understanding of ecological and Indigenous grief and ancestral ties.

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THENATUREKIND

Nature heals, my grandmother used to say. Whenever you are low, turn to her, listen to her, she will heal you. To this day, I follow her advice. Nature is teacher, healer.

Masha Karpushina is a Moscow born, London-raised illustrator and mural artist interested in the real and the surreal.
Interviews

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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Essays

The Palm Tree Diaspora

How an encounter with tropical palms in the temperate climate of Brest, France, made writer Márcio Cruz reflect on the journeys of plants and his ancestors.

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Essays

Staying Power

Adventures in nature don’t always have to be pursued in other lands, sometimes they can be found closer to home.

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