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CONTENTS The gift of life Issue 348 Januar y/Februar y 2025 1 WELCOME 4 TRIBUTE: STEPHAN HARDING 6 NOTICEBOARD 7 EVENTS 69 ARCHIVE 70 SHOP Fabulous Fungi, Upspring by Jana Nicole 41.5cm x 41.5cm, mixed media collage www.jananicole.com Ecologist 8 CROSS-BORDER COMMUTERS Roman Goergen reports on new jaguar sightings in the Southwestern US 11 NEWS & STORIES 12 COOPERATIVE WAYS FORWARD Jan Goodey makes the case for a plant-based global food system The slow read 22 DEAD WOOD LIVING Ecophilosopher and creative writer Paul Evans takes us into the magical realm of what looks from the outside like a dead tree stump. He marvels at the hidden world teeming with life that he finds inside as he invites us on a journey exploring the power of decay and rot to give other systems and scurrying creatures new life. Connected life 14 REVIVING LAKE URU URU Gustavo Blanco tells us what winning the 2024 Iris Prize means 18 THREADS OF LIVELIHOOD Anna-Louise Meynell finds and shares a purposeful life in India 20 THE RISE OF REGENERATIVE AGRICULTURE Charlotte Sterland offers a simple guide to regenerative agriculture 21 ALCHEMY OF SOIL Natalie Taylor invites us into an artistic practice that venerates soil 2 Resurgence & Ecologist January/February 2025
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The gift of life 30 OPENING TO GRACE Sharmila Desai describes the gift of yoga as a life path 34 THE GIFT OF SERVICE Carol Donaldson reveals how helping others can be a gift 36 THE GIFT OF YOUNG PEOPLE AND THEIR SUPERPOWERS Peter McGarry salutes young people and their potential 39 THE GIFT OF INSPIRATION Fons van Laar finds creativity in his allotment garden 40 THE GIFT OF FINITUDE Stephanie Paterson celebrates the gift of finding purpose in work “ Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers.” – Roh Moo-hyun, former president of South Korea Art & culture 50 STITCHING WITH NATURE Textile artist Katerina Knight explores her deep connection with Nature, which she describes as both her teacher and her healer, a belief that lies at the core of her artistic practice 54 CELEBRATING DARTMOOR Lara Goodband and Matthew Shaw introduce a new exhibition that celebrates Dartmoor 58 SISTER NATURE… Poetry editors Briony Hughes and Rachel Marsh introduce the poet, Alison Gibb Wisdom & wellbeing 42 LIFE IS SACRED Satish Kumar muses on the divine entanglement that is the gift of life 4 4 FINDING STEADINESS OF SOUL Elizabeth Wainwright interviews spiritual author and thinker Elizabeth Oldfield 48 HEALING AS RADICAL CARE Yasmin Dahnoun questions the colonisation of the wellness industry Issue 348 Reviews 60 (ANTI-)NATALISM? Our reviews editor Russell Warfield, himself a parent, shares his thoughts on two books that explore the role, challenges and future of modern parenting and asks why it has been made so difficult FURTHER REVIEWS IN THIS ISSUE: 62 We Need to Talk about Climate by Graham Smith 63 Power to the People by Danny Sriskandarajah 64 Land Smart by Tom Heap 65 The Tree Collectors by Amy Stewart 66 Close Encounters of the Fungal Kind by Richard Fortey 68 Whose Planet? The Climate Justice Podcast by Nani Jansen Reventlow Resurgence & Ecologist 3

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The gift of life Issue 348 Januar y/Februar y 2025

1 WELCOME 4 TRIBUTE: STEPHAN HARDING 6 NOTICEBOARD 7 EVENTS 69 ARCHIVE 70 SHOP

Fabulous Fungi, Upspring by Jana Nicole

41.5cm x 41.5cm, mixed media collage www.jananicole.com

Ecologist

8 CROSS-BORDER COMMUTERS Roman Goergen reports on new jaguar sightings in the Southwestern US 11 NEWS & STORIES 12 COOPERATIVE WAYS FORWARD Jan Goodey makes the case for a plant-based global food system

The slow read

22 DEAD WOOD LIVING Ecophilosopher and creative writer Paul Evans takes us into the magical realm of what looks from the outside like a dead tree stump. He marvels at the hidden world teeming with life that he finds inside as he invites us on a journey exploring the power of decay and rot to give other systems and scurrying creatures new life.

Connected life

14 REVIVING LAKE URU URU Gustavo Blanco tells us what winning the 2024 Iris Prize means 18 THREADS OF LIVELIHOOD Anna-Louise Meynell finds and shares a purposeful life in India 20 THE RISE OF REGENERATIVE

AGRICULTURE Charlotte Sterland offers a simple guide to regenerative agriculture 21 ALCHEMY OF SOIL Natalie Taylor invites us into an artistic practice that venerates soil

2 Resurgence & Ecologist

January/February 2025

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