Stories

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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Features

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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Features

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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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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THENATUREKIND

Nature is constantly changing meaning there is always something new to see and appreciate.

Tamary Kudita was born in Zimbabwe while her ancestry can be traced back to the Orange Free State, historical Boer state in Southern Africa.
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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Features

A Born Activist

Environmental activist Samela Sateré Mawé is showing how Indigenous youth in Brazil are taking control of their own narrative and using contemporary weapons in the fight to defend their territories.

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Features

Waters that flow

Indigenous artist Seba Calfuqueo’s work explores identity and how binaries introduced through colonisation are still limiting the human and non-human world.

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Features

Xingu Resistance

On a visit to the Xingu, Brazilian journalist Yula Rocha encounters Indigenous communities under threat, and meets Indigenous artists and activists using their ancient culture to fight back.

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Features

The Plant Name-Giver

Mogaje Guihu is a sage of the Nonuya people who possesses the ancestral knowledge of medicinal plants and the ecological systems of the Amazon basin.

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