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Interviews
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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Photography
The 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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Features
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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Features
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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Essays
Climate 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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Essays
Fermentation 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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Essays
The 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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Essays
Beyond 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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Essays
Reclaiming 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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Poems
Hive Light
Poetry by Rushika Wick
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Features
Nature’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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Features
In 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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Features
Nature'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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Interviews
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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Features
An 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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Interviews
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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Photography
My 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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