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Richard Louv on living “nature-rich” lives

Richard Louv is a journalist and author of a number of books, most famously Last Child in the Woods, first published in 2005. His most recent book is The Nature Principle. Last Child in the Woods coined the term ‘Nature Deficit Disorder’ to describe the impacts that isolation from nature

Interview: David Nobbs on ‘The Second Life of Sally Mottram’

David Nobbs is a writer, mostly of novels, of which he has done over 20. He has also written for television, most famously The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin and A Bit of a Do. He is soon to turn 80 but is still working full time, and lives

Isabel Carlisle on making space for Nature: the Community Charter

I like the idea of ‘making space for Nature’. I like space, gaps and emptiness. I like Nature. Yet as I began to unpack the topic in readiness for this blog I began to feel like I was sitting in a box looking through the wrong end of a telescope.

How we make space for nature: Transition Langport

Transition Langport started with the appreciation and love of nature at its heart, for nature, with its abundance and support for life, is what brings so many of us together. We want to protect, enhance and value nature’s life supporting qualities. As a community we are lucky to live

Transition Hubs meeting 2014: a ‘lot’ to share

Responding to Ted Trainer: there’s a lot more to Transition than community gardens

Ted Trainer’s recent paper, Transition Townspeople, we need to think about Transition: just doing stuff is far from enough!, generated a certain amount of attention at the recent Degrowth conference in Leipzig. Most of what I would say in response to it I have already said in previous exchanges

Mary-Jayne Rust on “reconnecting to the rest of nature”

Mary-Jayne Rust is an art therapist, a Jungian analyst, a feminist psychotherapist and an ecopsychologist. She runs a small private practice seeing individuals in North London, and also gives talks, workshops and courses and seminars in the field of ecopsychology. She is the editor, with Nick Totton, of the