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Standing Up For The More Than Human – with Sam Lee This #FREE event with Sam Lee marks the start of a 6 month programme songs of Return, exploring the meeting points between animate art, activism, science and spirituality with the aim of helping you become an agent for change. Sam Lee is a Mercury Prize nominated folk singer, conservationist, song collector, award winning promoter, broadcaster and activist. He plays a unique role in the British music scene. A highly inventive and original singer, folk song interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and successful creator of live events. Alongside his organisation, The Nest Collective, Sam has shaken up the music scene breaking boundaries between folk and contemporary music and the assumed places and ways folksong is appreciated. Sam’s helped develop its ecosystem inviting in a new listenership interrogating what the messages in these old songs hold for us today. Bookings via https://animate-earth.org/events/standing-uyo-for-the-more-than-human/ Read more about Sam: https://samleesong.co.uk

Songs of Return - 11 March – 13 September 2026 A 6 month online programme with Angharad Wynne, Sam Lee, Jon Young, Dylan McGarry, Alexandra Blakely, César Rodríguez-Garavito & Manda Scott Songs of Return explores the meeting points between animate art, activism, science and spirituality with the aim of helping participants become agents for change. It unites world-renowned conservationists, artists and activists who have made significant impacts in their fields on behalf of our Earth and her creatures. Their aim is to inspire and support you to amplify whatever kernel of an idea, inspiration or cause in support of our animate world, that might be sitting in the pit of your belly right now, and to help it germinate and flourish. Bookings via https://animate-earth.org/songs-of-return/

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Standing Up For The More Than Human with Sam Lee: 11 March > animate-earth.org/events/stand... - #FREE!

Songs of Return: 11 March – 13 September 2026 > animate-earth.org/songs-of-ret... - A six month online programme

#MoreThanHuman #Animism #Art #Song

Agreements that bind us Brendan Montague examines how secrecy in Britain’s trade policy continues to favour fossil fuels over Earth’s wellbeing

Taking key findings from the #Oil in the wheels of justice? report, Brendan Montague from @theecologist.org examines how secrecy in Britain’s #trade policy continues to favour #FossilFuels over Earth’s wellbeing. @carolinelucas.bsky.social concludes: “UK trade policy remains cloaked in secrecy”

Resurgence talk: Guy Hayward - Walking ourselves home - Wed 25 March | 7-8pm GMT | FREE

#FREE Resurgence talk: Guy Hayward, Director of the @pilgrimtrust.bsky.social - Walking ourselves home

Wed 25 March • 7—8pm
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How is #pilgrimage positioned in this modern world to help us find our direction again? What gifts can we bring back from our journeys?

Satish Kumar Talk: Soil, Soul and Society 🗓️ April 15, 2026, 7-9pm 🏠 The Memnosyne Institute, @thersaorg.bsky.social Talks – London Series 📍 Durham Street Auditorium, The Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ 🎫 Buy Tickets - £20.00 > https://memnosyneuk.co.uk/event/soil-soul-society/

Satish Kumar Talk: Soil, Soul and Society
🗓️ April 15, 2026, 7-9pm
🏠 The Memnosyne Institute, @thersaorg.bsky.social Talks – London Series
📍 Durham Street Auditorium, The Royal Society of Arts, 8 John Adam Street, London, WC2N 6EZ
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Resurgence & Ecologist magazine - Hope as a radical act

Highlights from the March/April 2026 issue

We are delighted to welcome our new Editor, David Reeve, to the Resurgence team.

If we wish to save what is still beautiful in this world, we must not lose #hope.

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Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, Issue 355, March/April 2026 Hope as a radical act

#Hope as a radical act
Resurgence & Ecologist magazine
Issue 355 • March/April 2026

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Resurgence emerged as a challenge to modernity, calling for #peace, #spirituality and #ecological #awareness...

Soil: the magic ingredient by Satish Kumar, Issue 312, January/February 2019 Satish Kumar visits musician and award-winning arable and livestock farmer Andy Cato on his farm in France, where he learns of Andy's passion for ancient grains and farming that doesn’t "mess with the soil". Satish was delighted to discover that wheat is grown with the help of horses rather than heavy machinery, to protect the soil and organisms within it. “Our life depends on the few inches of the earth we call topsoil. Here we take good care of the soil, so we get good bread.” — Andy Cato Read article > https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article5239-soil-the-magic-ingredient.html

Fundraising dinner Wednesday 4 March • 7.30—10.00pm Petersham Nurseries, London TW10 7AB Andy Cato will be the guest speaker at the Resurgence fundraising dinner. We invite you to join us for a wonderful and memorable celebratory evening, bringing friends of The Resurgence Trust together to raise funds for this much-valued charity. Enjoy a delicious vegetarian feast at Petersham Nurseries, a secluded haven in Richmond, London. The dinner will be held within the magical atmosphere of the greenhouse restaurant, beneath a canopy of bougainvillea, vines and fragrant jasmine. Satish Kumar will also share a few words during the evening. Buy a ticket > https://www.tickettailor.com/events/theresurgencecentre/1726918/r/bluesky

A true cavalier by Sandy Brown, Issue 246, January/February 2008 Sandy Brown celebrates the work of Heather Jansch, whose life-size driftwood horses can be seen at the Eden Project in Cornwall. She discovers an artist whose experience as a painter and deep knowledge of horses enables her to work intuitively with the form.  Of all Heather’s animal works, Sandy most admires the smaller bronzes inspired by the Chinese T’ang horses, reflecting, “her work does have that archetypal quality. Each bronze piece represents all horses, not just one horse as her driftwood ones do.” Read article > https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article21-craft-a-true-cavalier.html

The horse as a wild architect by Tiffany Francis-Baker, Issue 340,  September/October 2023 Nature writer and illustrator Tiffany Francis-Baker reflects on the vital role that horses play in our landscape’s past and future. From Dartmoor ponies that have roamed the moor for 3,500 years, through journeys from coaching houses to inns, to their vital role in rewilding projects such as Knepp, horses are part of our ecosystem. Read article > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/111856/spread/22?rc=9ed47c77-5ae0-435a-bb7e-9c1cf5f12d03

Celebrating the #YearOfTheHorse

As we welcome the lunar New Year and Chinese Year of the Horse we look forward with renewed enthusiasm and the possibility of adventure — resonating with our 60th anniversary year celebrations.

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"Remember you are not alone and you do not need to finish the work... It helps no one if you sacrifice your joy because others are suffering. We people who care must be attractive, filled with that joy, so that others recognise that caring, helping and being generous are not a burden, they are a joy. Give the world your love, your service, your healing, but you can also give it your joy. This, too, is a great gift." ~ Desmond Tutu, from The Book of Joy

"Remember you are not alone and you do not need to finish the work... We people who #care must be attractive, filled with that #joy, so that others recognise that #caring, #helping and being #generous are not a burden, they are a joy."

~ Desmond Tutu, from The Book of Joy

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Deepen Your Roots The Resurgence Trust is delighted to share an upcoming collaboration with Rooted Healing’s year-long programme Deepen Your Roots. Rooted in principles that closely align with Resurgence’s vision of ecological, social and spiritual regeneration, the programme explores how the crises of our time are symptoms of deeper disconnection – from land, community and meaning. Deepen Your Roots brings together ecological thinking, cultural renewal and deep inner work, creating space for reflection, grief and re-rooting alongside practical visions for change. Satish Kumar, founder of The Resurgence Trust, will be contributing to the programme later in the year. His participation reflects a shared commitment to reverence for life, localised living, and the understanding that lasting change arises when inner transformation and outer action move together. We are happy to share a discount of 10% with our community: use code RESURGENCE10 Find out more > http://rootedhealing.org/deepen

The Loraine Trust grant - Supporting farmers who support nature The Loraine Trust are pleased to share with Resurgence & Ecologist readers that they are accepting applications for 2026 grants. The Loraine Trust offer grants of up to £5,000 to farms that would not normally be able to afford significant wildlife enhancement projects within their annual farm budget. Such projects may include the creation of ponds, floral–species–rich strips or meadows, hedges, shelter belts, woodland and any other projects that would be of direct benefit to the wildlife of the holding. Applications should be emailed no later than 30 April, 2026 to Rob Usher: wildernessrob7@gmail.com Apply for a grant > https://files.constantcontact.com/c7e01237001/602aaaf7-113a-485f-b4e5-728343b46f4a.pdf

For six decades #ResurgenceAndEcologist has shared ideas with the power to create change. As we mark this milestone, we invite our readers to join us as life members, helping to sustain this work for generations to come > www.resurgence.org/membership/l...

#Magazine #Education #Environment #Charity

Fundraising dinner Wednesday 4 March • 7.30—10pm GMT Petersham Nurseries TW10 7AB Please join us for a wonderful and memorable celebratory evening, bringing friends of The Resurgence Trust together to raise funds for this much-valued charity. Enjoy a pre-dinner drinks reception and a delicious vegetarian feast at Petersham Nurseries, a secluded haven in Richmond, London. The dinner will be held within the magical atmosphere of the greenhouse restaurant, beneath a canopy of bougainvillea, vines and fragrant jasmine. Our guest speaker will be Andy Cato, co-founder of Wildfarmed. Andy is an award-winning mixed arable and livestock farmer, and his work in agroecology has earned him prestigious awards like the 2020 Lauréate Nationale and Chevalier de l'Ordre du Mérite Agricole. Our founder, Satish Kumar, will join us for the evening and will also share a few words.

Animals and healing Wednesday 25 February • 7—8.30pm GMT Online, via Zoom Shamans have always said that it is the animals who heal us. Pascale Petit’s work demonstrates poetry as a kind of shamanism, allowing author and reader to shapeshift in the imagination, and the animals are the constant medicine in her work. Jay Griffiths’ new book encompasses how animals heal the society as well as the psyche, electrifying our minds and vitalising our cultures. Together, Jay and Pascale will create an event that shows, through both personal experience and their writing, that animals are our healers. They will be discussing their experiences, reading from their work, and opening up the conversation to the audience

Creating music with plants and fungi – a conversation between two biogenic composers Tuesday 24 March • 7—8.30pm GMT • via Zoom Biogenic music is a beautiful intersection of art, biology, ecology and technology. It reminds us that music is not just a human invention, but a shared language of life itself, echoing the rhythms and voices of the living world. How might we be changed once we have experienced the voices of the unheard mycorrhizal world through this art form? Alex H Duncan, who is also known as 'the composer in the woods', returns for another fascinating exploration into his music making with plants and fungi, this time accompanied by film and TV composer Adrian Carson-Smith.

Resurgence talk: Guy Hayward 'Walking ourselves home' Wednesday 25 March • 7—8pm GMT • via Zoom How is pilgrimage positioned in this modern world to help us find our direction again? How can we visit the sacred places and engage in spiritual practices along the footpath to know who we are? What gifts can we bring back from our journeys to everyday life? Guy Hayward is Director of the British Pilgrimage Trust, which he co-founded in 2014 to promote the practice of 'bring your own beliefs' pilgrimage in Britain. He has been leading pilgrimages since 2016, guiding people in group singing about Nature as well as folk and sacred songs. He co-authored the book Britain’s Pilgrim Places.

Join us in moments of listening & #creativity through #poetry & #pilgrimage, #drawing & biogenic #music, and conversations that remind us of our place within the living world.

This season also brings a special Resurgence 60th anniversary #fundraising dinner at Petersham Nurseries > conta.cc/4r7TiYA

The #sculpture exhibition 'One Island – Many Visions' is the result of a collaboration between PSQT and members of the @royalsculptors.bsky.social who visited to create work that responds to the quarry – its geology, social and industrial history, current community and burgeoning plants & wildlife

One Island – Many Visions Contributing artist Anna Gillespie reports on a sculpture exhibition that embraces its setting

#Artist Anna Gillespie reports on a #sculpture exhibition that embraces its setting.

The quarry sculpture ‘Passing Through’ appears to embrace the #rock, just as we need to learn to embrace our #planet – understanding our equivalence with fellow beings rather than insisting on our superiority...

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"Those who contemplate the beauty of the Earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of Nature... the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." ~ Rachel Carson

"Those who contemplate the #beauty of the #Earth find reserves of #strength that will endure as long as #life lasts. There is something infinitely #healing in the repeated refrains of #Nature... the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter." ~ @carsoncenter.bsky.social

Job Vacancy: Assistant Editor (Part-time) Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Find out more: www.resurgence.org/workwithus

#Job Vacancy: #AssistantEditor (Part-time) Resurgence & Ecologist #magazine

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IMBOLC: Guided Meditation, Ancient Wisdom, Self-Reflection and Nature Connection Tuesday 27 January 2026, 6:30 - 7:30pm (GMT), Zoom, FREE resurgenceevents.org

IMBOLC - Celebrate the first stirrings of Spring! Attune to this time of great promise and potential and tend to the seeds of your intentions as life begins to awaken within the Earth. resurgenceevents.org

#FREE #Imbolc Celebration: #GuidedMeditation, #AncientWisdom, #SelfReflection and #NatureConnection

Tuesday 27 January 2026, 6:30-7:30pm (GMT), Online, Zoom

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Time for light On painting a candle a year

Time for #light - On #painting a #candle a year

#Candles, which seem to burn from within, create a sense of magic. What is it about the symbolic lighting of candles?

It has a simple power to throw light yet at the same time reveal its vulnerability to death... Its life is in fact like our own.

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"Rights for Nature are a crucial step towards rethinking our place in the world — grasping not just the moral case for protecting and restoring Nature but also understanding that we are, as human animals, part of it and entirely dependent on it." ~ Natalie Bennett

"Rights for #Nature are a crucial step towards rethinking our place in the world — grasping not just the moral case for protecting and restoring Nature but also understanding that we are, as human animals, part of it and entirely dependent on it." ~ @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social

#RightsOfNature

Progression by Peter Bradford, Vol. 2 No. 5, January/February 1969 This poem exposes the tragic irony at the heart of 'progress': that in trying to possess, protect and dominate, humanity steadily impoverishes itself. In its final lines, the poem confronts us with the ultimate cost of this trajectory — a future in which nothing is left to remember. Read poem > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/47748/spread/10?rc=540b7844-752e-4809-8727-06e4e2d33e5c

Three poems by Thomas Land, Tony Curtis & P.W. Vol. 5 No. 2, May/June 1974 These three poems reflect on freedom as a natural state, and on the forces that constrain it. From lightness and movement to violence and waiting, they echo a central Resurgence concern: that when life is controlled rather than cared for, both Nature and the human spirit suffer. Read poems > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/48767/spread/18?rc=5ad58b2f-6c31-49a6-8455-2837380c781e

The Ground that Seeks Love by Paul Matthews, Issue 213, July/August 2002 This two-poem selection reflects on attention, presence, and the meaning held within everyday acts. Drawing on art, memory, and the mundane, the poems show how meaning arises when we truly attend to what is before us — a jug, a gesture, a moment of work — rather than standing apart as detached observers. Read poems > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/45432/spread/36?rc=1e0dc8c2-8b9e-4777-8b7e-f167cf7e4c22

The Uses of the Globe by David Broadbridge, Issue 284, May/June 2014 Seen from space, the Earth is both fragile and alive: the melting ice, rising seas and changing weather remind us that we are not owners, but guests. The poem invites us to attention, care and shared responsibility, showing that survival and joy come from tending the world as our true dwelling place. Read poem > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/38925/spread/50?rc=aaae271f-ab8a-4a95-936f-8cecb7bec67b

Six decades of poetry
From the earliest issues of the magazine, Resurgence has made space for poetry as a way of listening to the living world, to human experience, and to the quiet truths that sit beneath mainstream headlines > conta.cc/4a2LxfZ

#Poetry #Poem #Poet #Writing #Resurgence #Magazine

Places of enchantment Stephanie Boxall reviews {cite}Peatlands: A Journey Between Land and Water {/cite}by Alys Fowler

#Peatlands: A Journey Between #Land and #Water by alys fowler, exploring how these often misunderstood landscapes are revealed as living, vital beings rich in history, carbon, beauty and meaning.

This is not just a #book about #bogs. It’s a book about love: love for the land, the planet we live on!

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"Don't lose hope. If you lose hope, you become apathetic and do nothing. And if you want to save what is still beautiful in this world — if you want to save the planet for the future generations, your grandchildren, their grandchildren — then think about the actions you take each day" ~ Jane Goodall

"Don't lose hope. If you lose hope, you become apathetic and do nothing. And if you want to save what is still beautiful in this world — if you want to save the planet for the future generations, your grandchildren, their grandchildren — then think about the actions you take each day" ~ Jane Goodall

Radical Love: From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each To see peace in our lifetimes, we have to practice love

Radical #Love: From Separation to Connection with the Earth, Each Other, and Ourselves - A Talk hosted by Satish Kumar and made possible by Alternatives who says "To see peace in our lifetimes, we have to practice love" ❤️🕊️🙏

28 January 2026, 7-8:30pm

St James's Church
197 Piccadilly
London W1J 9LL

A small film of spring flowers from my garden because we recover from stress 60% more quickly when we look at plants & if we find them beautiful our brains release dopamine, lifting mood. Pause for a few moments to help your synaptic soup 🌿🧠:

1966: a brave beginning by Greg Neale, Issue 290, May/June 2015 In May 1966, Resurgence published its very first issue — a small, independent magazine born into a world already marked by political unrest, nuclear anxiety and ecological neglect. At a time when environmental concern was far from mainstream, Resurgence dared to ask deeper questions about peace, humanity and our relationship with the Earth. Read article > https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article4404-1966-a-brave-beginning.html

The use of the land by E.F. Schumacher, Vol. 2 No. 7, May/June 1969 E.F. Schumacher was one of the most influential early contributors to Resurgence, and his thinking helped shape its intellectual foundations. Schumacher shared with Resurgence a deep scepticism of unlimited growth, technocratic thinking, and economic systems divorced from human and ecological values. His writing embodied a core principle that Resurgence championed from the start: that economics must serve life, not the other way around. Read article > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/47746/spread/6?rc=b6a069f3-0cf9-4f0c-8cd6-8a312e5c0fc0

People’s politics in a non-violent society by Satish Kumar and Vinoba Bhave, Vol. 2 No. 8/9, July—October 1969 In a landmark interview, Satish Kumar sits down with Vinoba Bhave, the renowned Indian philosopher and activist, to explore the radical idea of self-governance and the true meaning of political revolution. Far from advocating violent upheaval or blind obedience to state power, Bhave calls for a revolution in the conscience and minds of the people — a shift from dependence on government to active, ethical participation in the life of communities. Read article > https://ocean.exacteditions.com/issues/47745/spread/36?rc=207b16ad-0ae7-42ae-badb-255216d60dcc

60 years of Resurgence “What impressed me from the start — and still does — is the way the magazine resists the dichotomies of art and science, idealism and realism. It’s a place where these things meet and infuse. That’s more than just important. It’s essential.” — Craig Jordan-Baker Since 1966, Resurgence has been a meeting place for ideas that nourish both head and heart. Visionary editors, thinkers, artists and readers have shaped a movement rooted in compassion, community and care for the Earth. As we enter our 60th anniversary year, we honour the legacy that has brought us here — and we warmly invite you to become part of what comes next. Use code E26 to receive £6 off a print membership. Become a member > https://shop.resurgence.org/membership-offers

Roots and origins: returning to the beginnings of Resurgence in our 60th year!

At a time of accelerating ecological and social crisis, remembering where we come from feels more vital than ever > conta.cc/3NibyQu

Dare to dream! Tim Smit reflects on the human capacity to dream big

Tim Smit, co-founder of the #EdenProject, reflects on 25 years of this remarkable venture – the journey, the learnings, the people and its future – and reminds us that dreaming big is a powerful force for good.

#Art: Eden Project by Holly Francesca

#Dream #Earth #Nature #Horticulture #Education

Hugh’s Substack | Hugh Warwick | Substack Writing and photographs of nature in all its beauty and complexity. There will be a lot about hedgehogs - but not exclusively! Click to read Hugh’s Substack, by Hugh Warwick, a Substack publication wi...

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I sang a song on beauty: “I walk in beauty before me, I walk in beauty behind me, I walk in beauty above me, I walk in beauty below me, I walk in beauty all around me, The whole world is beautiful, the whole world is beautiful, the whole world is beautiful.” “HO!” People loved the song and we all loved the conference ~ Satish Kumar

The Oxford Real Farming Conference (@orfc.bsky.social) was truly amazing and inspiring - follow them if you haven't already! 2000 people participated, I spoke and sang a #song on #beauty - See alt text in photo.

People loved the song and we all loved the conference ~ Satish Kumar

#ORFC #Farming