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At birth we are the buds, the tips of the tree of life. Our parents are the twigs on which we sprout, our ancestors the branches, and the boughs and trunk are as old as life itself. We are gifted with a precious heirloom, our jewel-like strings of genes. Worked

Aniol Esteban is head of Environmental Economics at the New Economics Foundation. He is a biologist and environmental economist.  He is the author of, among other things, Natural Solutions: Nature’s role in delivering well-being and key policy goals – opportunities for the third sector, published by nef.  I started by

“Did you grow all those yourself?”, a young woman asked me last week at Transition Town Tooting’s 7th Foodival.  She was pointing to a wicker basket filled with the aromatic lemon balm, rosemary, anise hyssop, marjoram and a dozen or so more herbs and flowers I was preparing tea

At the end of the Peoples’ Climate March in London, the last speaker, from Avaaz, asked the crowd to think of a place, or a person, that they really cherished, and to hold them in their thoughts during a minute’s silence.  To remember who it is that you are

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

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