lessons from nature: 1/17 of 17
Starting a biodynamic vineyard
Monty Waldin
1st April, 2008
Making the transition from wine writer to viticulturist was a leap of faith for Monty Waldin. What could he expect from his new hilltop vineyard in the Pyrenees? more...
Growing your own - where to begin
Paul Kingsnorth
19th May, 2009
'Where do I start?' Paul Kingsnorth answers the oft-asked question of those who want to grow their own food - but are lacking in knowledge, time, space, or all three. No problem. Read on... more...
More is More
Malcolm Tait
16th February, 2009
There are few things more awe-inspiring in nature than the massing in vast numbers of a single species of animal. To explain why the phenomenon is so thrilling requires an understanding of why and how it happens in the first place more...
Listen to the animals
Rupert Sheldrake
12th February, 2009
Why did so many animals escape December's tsunami? more...
How to be free: Endogenous growth theory
Tom Hodgkinson
1st October, 2008
The more I think about it, the more sense it makes: gardening will save the world. For in a garden is truth, beauty and lots of good food... more...
Foraging for sanity - building Holistic Health in Harmony with Nature
Fergus Drennan
1st June, 2008
Expelled from Eden and adrift amid the miracles of modern living, going back to nature is the only way to stay sane and healthy in this mad, bad world, says Fergus Drennanmore...
The eco-shoes with soles of coconut
Laura Sevier
1st June, 2008
What do you get if you cross a shoe with a coconut? A bounty for the feet. Laura Sevier meets Sven Segal, eco shoe designer and founder of the Po-Zu range, who has found a novel use for waste coconut husks. . .more...
Earth Shattering: Ecopoems edited by Neil Astley
David Hawkinns
1st June, 2008
Context is all in a comprehensive new anthology of verse with an environmental bent. These poems make sense of a disappearing world... more...
How modern economics causes both inner and outer climate change
Jonathan Rowe
1st April, 2008
It’s the battle of the century. In one corner, the Economy – big, bloated, greedy and growing. In the other, the planet Earth – fragile, finite and fighting back. more...
A steady-state economy
Herman Daly
1st April, 2008
Economist Herman E Daly argues that our future depends on a new economic model, one that needs to be defined by the dynamic balance – the steady state – of the natural world upon which it depends. more...
Set in Stone
Emily Young
1st November, 2007
The loveliness, power and strength in stone is the raw beauty of Nature herself. In every piece of stone there is a story told more magnificent than any creation myth; a story that shocked and astonished the Christian geologists of late-1700s England when they first started to decipher, through the fossil record, the history of life on Earth. more...
Less waste, more speed
Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes
29th March, 2007
Growing crops to solve the planet’s energy needs doesn’t work. Recycling the energy in our waste just might have a significant part to play. By Jeremy Smith & Jon Hughes more...
lessons from nature: 1/17 of 17
England Vanishing
22nd September, 2006
How do we define ourselves in time and space? A new book England In Particular suggests it is the commonplace, the local and the distinctive that tells us where we are more...
A brown tree snake
Anthony Wall
1st February, 2006
At dead of night, unseen, a slithering stowaway disembarks from a newly docked ship… down a rope, across the quay and into concealing undergrowth. Is that what happened? Or did the snake hitch a ride on a military aircraft from Indonesia, maybe, to take up residence here on the American island of Guam in the Pacific? more...Lessons From Nature
Anthony Wall
9th November, 2005
Episode Two - Poison Toads more...
13 Globe-trotting indigenous grannies carry message of unity and prayer
Nicola Graydon
1st January, 2001
Grandmother Earth - Thirteen matriarchs from indigenous cultures are currently touring the world, promoting peace, unity and a respect for nature. nicola Graydon meets one of them, Mona Polacca more...
Lessons From Nature
Anthony Wall
30th November, 1999
Episode One - Killer Bees more...Members
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