WISDOM & WELLBEING

36 THE GREAT TURNING

Youth activist Katie Hodgetts speaks with Chris Johnstone about the revised edition of seminal text Active Hope 40 PEACE IN UKRAINE A Swiss solution inspires Satish

Kumar 42 CELEBRATING GAIA Herbert Girardet pays tribute to the life of James Lovelock (1919–2022) 44 THE ELECTRICAL LANGUAGE

OF FUNGI Yasmin Dahnoun reports on new research 46 BREAK IT DOWN By using special microbes nothing goes to waste, writes compost king Nicky Scott

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ART & CULTURE

48 ARTISTS PUT ENERGY IN A

NEW LIGHT A new movement is questioning our use of fossil fuels, writes Alice Audouin 52 OIL IN A MATERIAL WORLD Sandra Sawatzky shares the story behind her 70-metre tapestry

REVIEWS

56 A GOLDEN THREAD OF

COMMUNITY Kate Blincoe reviews

Thunderstone: A True Story of Losing One Home and Discovering Another by Nancy Campbell and Riding Out: A Journey of Love, Loss and New Beginnings by Simon Parker

58 HELPING OURSELVES Billy Talen reviews Citizens: Why the Key to Fixing Everything Is All of Us by Jon Alexander with Ariane Conrad 58 THE ROAD AHEAD Andrew Simms reviews

Movement: How to Take Back Our Streets and Transform Our Lives by Thalia Verkade and Marco te Brömmelstroet 60 LOST FREQUENCIES Chris Garrard reviews Sounds

Wild and Broken by David George Haskell 61 HOW OIL TOOK OVER OUR

LIVES Alex McDonald reviews the film

The Oil Machine directed by Emma Davie. 62 PILGRIMAGE OF THE HEART James Murray-White reviews The

Restorative Spirit: Illuminating the Soul in a Time of Global Awakening by Mick Collins 62 EXTINCTION AND REBIRTH

Holly Rose reviews Otherlands: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday

64 COMMUNITY 65 EVENTS 66 SHOP 68 LETTERS 70 ARCHIVE

Editorial Team Marianne Brown marianne@resurgence.org Helen Banks Nicole Channon Yasmin Dahnoun Rachel Marsh Brendan Montague Emma Randall Russell Warfield

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