Co-founder of the Dark Mountain Project Paul Kingsnorth tells the Ecologist why this year's Uncivilisation festival will be the last but quite possibly the best....
… in an underground room in a Manchester Art Gallery having a conversation about technology with a group of artists, hackers and visitors. It was part of running exhibition on apocalyptic …
It's the UK's National Vegetarian Week but what's on the veggie menu at your local bar, pub or bistro? If it's mushroom risotto - again - have a word with the chef because there's no excuse for those second-rate meals that should have been left behind in the 1970s. Susan Clark goes in search of Fine Dining for non-meat eaters
… refuge in books and tried to teach myself the art of Fine Dining - Vegetarian-style. I am … Devon towns nestling on the foothills of Dartmoor, where Steven Spielberg filmed War … The chef who taught the course, Joe Bartlett, is not a vegetarian himself but he is …
Susan Clark introduces the art of botanical cooking....
… Other roses.jpg Susan Clark introduces the art of botanical cooking.... One of the … I like to cook with ritual and that usually starts with putting my apron on and giving … cooking’, and for me, often the way it starts is like this: A specific plant – its …
The UK’s most successful NGO is based in a Dorset village, with no members or PR team. Paul Kingsnorth meets the duo behind it…
… King met whilst working at Friends of the Earth during its inception in the 1970s. King … on the small rather than the vast, the particular rather than the general and the … letter-writing or hard-hitting reports, but art, poetry, sculpture, and the creative …
Having mastered the art of cooking with Primroses, Susan Clark is hoping Jane Austen or the local Vicar might just pop round for afternoon tea ...
… for a Springtime treat Having mastered the art of cooking with Primroses, Susan Clark is … in your kitchen and you really will have to start all over again. After several weeks of … want to please you do ... and tried, half heartedly, to eat the flower. NO LAIKA! SNIFF …
If you want to serve an Easter cake that brings a forgaging panache to the party, try this Primrose Cloud sponge cake...it's heavenly says Susan Clark
… cake that brings a forgaging panache to the party, try this Primrose Cloud sponge … cake that will shout “ Ottolenghi Eat Your Heart Out” when you walk triumphantly into the … that the finished cake looked like a work of art and I was gratified to hear the only thing …
There's nothing more satisfying than watching a curd slowly start to thicken says Susan Clark...except, perhaps, knowing that your key ingredient was growing in the hedgerow just a few hours earlier.
… more satisfying than watching a curd slowly start to thicken says Susan Clark...except, … you will know that curd-making is a real art, so unless you are very confident start small and work up to production for your …
With the World Electric Bike Championship looming at the end of the month, Ecologist Managing Editor Susan Clark is spending June getting to grips with two wheels, plus the bonus of a handy throttle for those long Devon hills. It's been some time since she got on any kind of bike - here's how she is getting on ....
… that curls around and embraces the jagged Hartland peninsula where the Ecologist is now … Having spent those sessions mastering the art of stopping and starting which is quite a handy skill if you …
Former deputy editor of the Ecologist, Paul Kingsnorth, explains why he became disillusioned with the parables of environmentalism, so decided to write his own instead
… so decided to write his own instead It started last year with two men in a pub. It … global ecosystem, that economic growth was part of the problem, and that the future was … writers, we wondered where the writing, the art, the music was that tried to move beyond …
Resurgence-in-Action brings together an eclectic mix of people who care about the same things - and throws in a great dollop of fun, laughter, world class music, provocative discussions and fantastic vegetarian foods. Susan Clark looks forward to this summer's festival.
… each year and from the first of July, I start the big countdown to what I know will be … and the values it espouses as being a key part of what the American environmentalist Paul … of summer by Spiral Dance. If you too are a part of this Movement then deep down, you will …
Paul Kingsnorth meets the Bristol-based chef with an eco-friendly restaurant and a mission to take real food to a wider community.
… CASE STUDY: part eco restaurant, part cookery school Paul Kingsnorth | 17th May … just a restaurant: it’s a mission. For a start, the food served here is organic, and the …
Your compost heap can be an untapped powerhouse of energy, says Paul Kingsnorth - it's just a matter of learning to harness it
… in with pallets and wire, is the liveliest part of the allotment; the part that lives and works and moves and grows … renewed and life given back to the exhausted earth. Without this, there would be no food. …
How one small English town took on a superstore - and won
… town every summer, it was revealed that part of the historic town centre was to be … into a gallery to display local shell art. Reg sits on a paint-stained wooden chair … And for now, we got the right answers.’ This article first appeared in the Ecologist May …