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InterviewsLo-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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PhotographyThe Breaking Loose of The Elements
On the banks of the Karnaphuli River, in the Bay of Bengal, the port city of Chittagong is Bangladesh’s second largest city, with a population of two and a half million people, many of them...
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FeaturesThe 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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FeaturesThe 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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EssaysClimate Change and Me
Co-founder of XR Universities and Polluters Out, and co-organiser of the climate strike march in September 2019, reveals how her personal history led her to become involved in the climate movement.
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EssaysFermentation Forces
Fermentation can be a metaphor for creation in a world of constant change. We should embrace the vitality that can be found in any transformative process, including those we perceive as decay.
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EssaysThe Wood Element of Spring
The energetics of the five elements are the vital life force behind everything we do, and a constant presence within the cosmos, our solar system, and our earth.
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EssaysBeyond the Fence
Brownfield sites are generally seen as ugly, industry-befouled waste land. But they form unique habitats that support a range of wildlife.
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EssaysReclaiming the Darkness
Whether it’s street lighting or using our smartphones, reducing darkness from our lives actually isn’t good for our health - or our sense of our place in the universe.
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PoemsHive Light
Poetry by Rushika Wick
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FeaturesNature’s Agent
Born in Missouri, US, in the 1890s, George Washington Carver became the only black man in America with an advanced agricultural science degree.
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FeaturesIn Favour of Life
Drawing inspiration from Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, chef, author and food activist Bela Gil believes agroecology is key to averting climate change and ending food poverty.
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FeaturesNature's Guardians
How far would you go to protect the environment? Members of the Bishnoi community in India are prepared to sacrifice their lives to protect the flora and fauna.
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InterviewsFinding 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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FeaturesAn Uncomfortable Truth
The green façade of Nilgiris hides an uncomfortable truth - that human intervention has destabilised a fragile ecosystem, threatening an ancient culture and the existence of native species.
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InterviewsResetting 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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PhotographyMy Garden My Kingdom
The oldest and biggest refugee camp in Iraq, which hosts 32,000 Syrian refugees, their gardens are more than just a source of flowers and food.
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