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CONTENTS Deep listening Issue 347 November/December 2024 1 WELCOME 4 NEWS FROM OUR COMMUNITY 5 EVENTS January Storm v2 by Pine Feroda www.merlynchesterman.com ECOLOGIST 6 EDITORS' PICKS 7 EARTH PRIZE Susan Clark brings news of a prize that is all about young people making positive changes 8 BUILDING A UNITED FRONT Environmental activist Jan Goodey writes that we need to step out of our comfort zones 10 EXPLORING ETHICS IN JOURNALISM Press regulator Impress asked: “What does ethical journalism mean in 2024?” Researcher Beth Parkes reports THE SLOW READ 22 FINDING HOPE IN TROUBLED TIMES At the end of another year of global challenges, Edward Davey finds reasons to stay hopeful for 2025 CONNECTED LIFE 12 THE RESURGENCE INTERVIEW: RUTH ALLEN Taking a deeper dive with geologist turned embodied psychotherapist Ruth Allen 16 FOOD PLANET FUTURE Photographer Robert Dash shares astonishing images of everyday foods, taken from his new book 18 THE ZEPHANIAH FOREST It’s almost a year since Birmingham poet (and contributor to this magazine) Benjamin Zephaniah died. Katie DanceyDowns reports on a planting project that honours his legacy DEEP LISTENING 28 RECIPES FOR LISTENING Susan Clark introduces the pioneering work of the late composer Pauline Oliveros 30 LISTENING TO PLANTS James Garside meets Helen Anahita Wilson, composer-inresidence at London’s Chelsea Physic Garden 34 SPACES FOR LISTENING Brigid Russell and Charlie Jones introduce Listening Spaces, an online initiative that gives people somewhere to both listen and be heard 2 Resurgence & Ecologist 36 TREASURE OF THE HEART In her new book, artist Anna Chapman Parker offers an invitation to deep listening 38 ARTIST’S STATEMENT: LISTENING TO EARTH AND ANCESTORS Artist Rachael Mellors describes the deep roots of her art practice November/December 2024
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WISDOM & WELLBEING 40 FROM INNER PEACE TO PLANETARY HEALTH Vikki Scott suggests that our ecological crisis is also a spiritual crisis, and says the transpersonal therapeutic model can help better protect and heal the planet 44 PRACTICE OF GRATITUDE It is important to live from a place of thanks, writes Satish Kumar 46 MY NEIGHBOURS, THE OWLS Author Polly Atkin shares an extract from her new book ART & CULTURE 50 EXPRESSING OUR HUMANITY Sculptor and activist Anna Gillespie says art can help us face up to the mess we have made on the planet 55 MONE Y TA LK S A new exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean Museum explores the role of money in society 56 EMBODIED ETHICS IN THE AGE OF AI Analogue artist Erin MacAirt says the human need for expression can never be outsourced to technology 58 POETRY: WE, UNRULY NATURE Poetry editors Rachel Marsh and Briony Hughes introduce the poet Caleb Parkin REVIEWS 60 THE FRONTLINE OF THE AMAZON Herbert Girardet finds himself immersed in the people of the rainforests of Ecuador and beyond after reading We Will Not Be Saved: A Memoir of Hope and Resistance in the Amazon Rainforest by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson FURTHER REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE: 62 One Garden Against the World: In Search of Hope in a Changing Climate by Kate Bradbury 63 Political Heat podcast hosted by Amy Mount 64 Radical Rest: Notes on Burnout, Healing and Hopeful Futures by Evie Muir 65 Constellations of Care: Anarcha- Feminism in Practice edited by Cindy Barukh Milstein 66 The Bridleway: How Horses Shaped the British Landscape by Tiffany Francis-Baker 67 The Lie of the Land: Who Really Cares for the Countryside? by Guy Shrubsole 68 SHOP 71 ARCHIVE Editorial Team Susan Clark Helen Banks Nicole Channon Yasmin Dahnoun Briony Hughes Rachel Marsh Emma Randall Russell Warfield The Resurgence Trust Editor Emeritus Satish Kumar PA to Satish Kumar Elaine Green Ambassadorial Assistants Samantha Jones Ged Camille Trust Manager Angie Burke Finance Manager Mark Gough Events Manager Amy Lythgoe-Jones Fundraising Manager Sharon Garfinkel Community Engagement Manager Georgie Gilmore Marketing Manager Manon Martini Membership Manager Emily Martin +44 (0)1237 441293 members@resurgence.org Deputy Membership and Operations Manager Jenny Routley +44 (0)1237 441293 info@resurgence.org Advertising Sales Dan Raymond-Barker +44 (0)7776 361671 dan@emsm.org.uk Resurgence & Ecologist is published by The Resurgence Trust, a company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales (05821436) and a charity registered in England and Wales (1120414). Registered office: The Resurgence Centre, Fore Street, Hartland, Bideford, Devon EX39 6AB, UK +44 (0)1237 441293 www.resurgence.org Issue 347 Resurgence & Ecologist 3

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CONTENTS

Deep listening Issue 347 November/December 2024

1 WELCOME 4 NEWS FROM OUR

COMMUNITY 5 EVENTS

January Storm v2 by Pine Feroda www.merlynchesterman.com

ECOLOGIST

6 EDITORS' PICKS 7 EARTH PRIZE Susan Clark brings news of a prize that is all about young people making positive changes 8 BUILDING A UNITED FRONT Environmental activist Jan

Goodey writes that we need to step out of our comfort zones 10 EXPLORING ETHICS IN

JOURNALISM Press regulator Impress asked:

“What does ethical journalism mean in 2024?” Researcher Beth Parkes reports

THE SLOW READ

22 FINDING HOPE IN TROUBLED TIMES At the end of another year of global challenges, Edward Davey finds reasons to stay hopeful for 2025

CONNECTED LIFE

12 THE RESURGENCE

INTERVIEW: RUTH ALLEN Taking a deeper dive with geologist turned embodied psychotherapist Ruth Allen 16 FOOD PLANET FUTURE Photographer Robert Dash shares astonishing images of everyday foods, taken from his new book 18 THE ZEPHANIAH FOREST It’s almost a year since

Birmingham poet (and contributor to this magazine) Benjamin Zephaniah died. Katie DanceyDowns reports on a planting project that honours his legacy

DEEP LISTENING

28 RECIPES FOR LISTENING Susan Clark introduces the pioneering work of the late composer Pauline Oliveros 30 LISTENING TO PLANTS James Garside meets Helen

Anahita Wilson, composer-inresidence at London’s Chelsea Physic Garden 34 SPACES FOR LISTENING Brigid Russell and Charlie Jones introduce Listening Spaces, an online initiative that gives people somewhere to both listen and be heard

2 Resurgence & Ecologist

36 TREASURE OF THE HEART In her new book, artist Anna

Chapman Parker offers an invitation to deep listening 38 ARTIST’S STATEMENT:

LISTENING TO EARTH AND ANCESTORS Artist Rachael Mellors describes the deep roots of her art practice

November/December 2024

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