This is an engaging, detailed exposé by Guy Shrubsole of the narrative of who owns the land in England, how this ‘myth’ has become enshrined, and how we can create a new framing to appoint new stewards to change this ‘lie of the land’. Shrubsole makes the repeated point in this book that ‘Stewardship, though…

How would you describe a tree? Would you talk about its trunk, its branches, its leaves, its roots, its abundant life? Would you describe it as an object or a subject?  How many species of tree can you name in 30 seconds?  Our knowledge, relationship and connection with trees, forests and woodlands, may be under…

Hadrian’s Wall stretches for 84 miles across the North of England, from Bowness-on-Solway to Wallsend, Newcastle, signalling one of the last frontiers of the Roman Empire. Nowadays, the Wall remains intact only in certain sections, with the best views to be found in the isolated middle sections far from the cities and towns. Walkers can…

By George Monbiot and Peter Hutchinson ‘Sunlight’, as US Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis proclaimed over a century ago, ‘is the best disinfectant.’ In this new exposé, Monbiot and Hutchison expertly shine the sunlight onto a ‘normalized ideology’, which has been lurking in the shadows. They urge that the vital first task is to finally…

‘Nations are concerned about themselves, not about the planet, and this kind of problem will keep coming at us as we discover more and more such potential catastrophic consequences.’  Carl Sagan 1984 The words of Carl Sagan, quoted early in Gerald Kutney’s book, encapsulates the geopolitical issues that have been identified over the last seventy…

Max Roser- ‘The world is much better; the world is still awful; the world can do much better.’ As to be expected, ‘Not the End of the World’ takes a systematic and methodical approach to the issues analysed in the text. Each chapter follows the same clear format of : ‘How have we got to…