| An untutored townsman's invasion of the country |
The Land |
November 2010 |
| What happens when an urban greenhorn moves to the sticks |
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| The green man |
Icons of England |
2010 |
| A short rumination on an ancient icon of England |
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| Progress and the land |
The Idler |
June 2010 |
| Perhaps the best way to rebel is to belong |
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| Confessions of a recovering environmentalist |
Dark Mountain |
May 2010 |
| A personal account of a fifteen year journey through green politics |
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| Oak, ash and thorn |
Jerusalem |
January 2010 |
| A historical fancy written for the programme of the West End play Jerusalem |
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| The upper Thames |
Caught by the River |
2009 |
| The magic of the lonely stretches of England's oldest river |
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| Green politics: victim of success |
What is radical politics today? |
2009 |
| An analysis of the direction of green politics in a consumer society |
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| Bring back the Engish resistance |
The Idler |
June 2009 |
| Where is our historical dissenting tradition when we most need it? |
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| England's scheming |
The Big Issue |
May 2009 |
| On economic growth and the blanding of a nation |
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| Singing for their supper |
Daily Telegraph |
April 2009 |
| Three men are walking the byways of Britain, singing as they go |
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| London calls the street rebels |
New Statesman |
March 2009 |
| The G20 summit has conjured the 'anti-globalisation' movement back into life |
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| Farms and fields ... or fuel? |
The Ecologist |
April 2008 |
| Renewable energy can be damaging too - it's just a different kind of damage |
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Will the real England please
stand up
|
Daily Telegraph |
April 2008 |
| What is the meaning of England in the 21st century? |
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| Kingdom submerged |
OurKingdom |
July 2007 |
| The summer floods put us in our place |
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| Road Rage |
The Ecologist |
March 2007 |
| A new generation of politicians is building a new generation of roads |
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| GROWING YOUR OWN - THE ECOLOGIST COLUMNS |
| From 2006 to 2008 I wrote a monthly column for The Ecologist on growing your own |
| food. The full archive is collected below. |
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| The poetry of compost |
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March 2008 |
| Of carrots and chakras |
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February 2008 |
| Diversity of all kinds |
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January 2008 |
| Bad summers and wild food |
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November 2007 |
| Grow it ... then cook it |
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October 2007 |
| Save our allotments |
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September 2007 |
| Gardening for wildlife |
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July/August 2007 |
| Seed sharing |
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June 2007 |
| Fruit trees and other wonders |
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May 2007 |
| Allotmenteering made easy |
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April 2007 |
| Growing food in containers |
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March 2007 |
| Growing food with no land |
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February 2007 |
| The allotment in winter |
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December 2006 |
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October 2006 |
| The joy of scythes |
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September 2006 |
| Bad news - allotments are trendy |
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July/August 2006 |
| Creating a community orchard |
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June 2006 |
| How to find a plot |
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May 2006 |
| Rare seeds and illegality |
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April 2006 |
| The beginning |
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February 2006 |
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| Still
Waters Run Deep |
The Ecologist |
November
2006 |
| One
of Britain’s biggest power companies plans
to fill a wildlife-rich lake with waste ash. But
locals have other ideas |
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| Forbidden
Fruit |
Daily Telegraph |
October
2006 |
| Apple
day celebrates our declining native fruit |
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| Wild
Man Wild Food |
The Ecologist |
July/August
2006 |
| A day
out foraging for wild food brings home the importance
of landscape and place |
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| Rustling
up the Roadkill |
Daily Telegraph |
June 2006
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| Foraging
for wild food is an art whose time has come |
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| The
Tesco Chainstore Massacre |
The Ecologist |
May 2006
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| How
one English town took on a superstore, and won |
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| The
Cleansing of Hackney |
The Ecologist |
March 2006 |
| The
East End is fighting for its identity in the face
of gentrification |
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| Save
Our Boatyard |
Daily Telegraph |
February 2006 |
| Who
is destroying the character of England's canal network
....? |
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| The
truth behind Papua's Paradise |
The Independent |
February 2006 |
| We like
to feel that an untouched paradise exists. The reality
is very different |
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| Deck
The Halls |
The Guardian |
December 2005 |
| Traditional
Christmas mistletoe faces an uncertain future |
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| Neighbourless
'Hoods |
The Ecologist |
December 2005 |
| Place
matters. It's time we acknowledged it |
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| The
Knights who say No |
New Statesman |
November 2005 |
| Had
enough of new malls? Then curse them! |
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| Do
You Remember an Inn? |
New Statesman |
November 2005 |
| A smoking
ban could be another nail in the coffin of the English
pub |
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| Get
thee behind me, Sainsbury's |
The Ecologist |
November 2005 |
| An allotment
is an insurance policy against an uncertain future |
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| The
Bad Environmentalist |
New Statesman |
October 2005 |
| If I
want to change the world, shouldn't I be setting
an example? |
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| Calling
Time |
Guardian Weekend |
July 2005 |
| The
traditional pub is being killed off by corporate
consolidation |
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| Rape
of a Nation |
The Ecologist |
April 2005 |
| Indonesia
is waging a vicious, hidden war against a tribal
people |
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| Tasmanian
Devilry |
The Ecologist |
December 2004 |
| The Tasmanian logging
industry is destroying some of the world's oldest
trees |
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| Time
to get Serious |
openDemocracy.net |
October 2004 |
| The European Social Forum
has to sort itself out, or it will fail |
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| Old
Tricks from the Hard Left |
New Statesman |
October 2004 |
| How the SWP tried to stitch
up the European Social Forum |
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| A
shaft of light at the ESF |
openDemocracy.net |
October 2004 |
| The highs and lows of
European Social Forum 2004 |
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| Spot
the Real Savages |
New Statesman |
March 2004 |
| When a lads’ mag
took on a ‘cannibal’ tribe, it bit off
more than it could chew |
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| Road
Rage |
The Ecologist |
March 2004 |
| The road protesters of
the 1990s lost the battles but won the war. But
has New Labour learned from their experience? |
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| Olympian
Struggle |
The Guardian |
December 2003 |
| Social Forums are the
Next Big Thing. But what does their future hold? |
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| The
Citizens of Nowhere |
New Statesman |
September 2003 |
| A new, rootless, placeless
ruling class is emerging over the world. |
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| Do
we have to set England alight again? |
New Statesman |
June 2003 |
| The proposed building
of new airports shows that nothing has changed since
the road protests |
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| Cancun:
Why You Should Care |
The Ecologist |
June 2003 |
| What's at stake in the
upcoming WTO negotiations; and why it matters |
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| Global
Backlash |
New Statesman |
April 2003 |
| There is a worldwide revolution
going on, right now. You just might not know it. |
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Globalization
Made Them Do It |
Tompaine.com |
August 2002 |
The market has neutered
South Africa's ANC government more effectively
than apartheid did |
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|
The
End of the Beginning? |
OpenDemocracy |
February 2002 |
The World Social Forum
is one of the most important events of our age |
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The
next clash of civilisations? |
OpenDemocracy |
January 2002 |
The real battle is
not between the West and Islam, but between the
world's elite and the growing movement against
it |
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Where
now for the anti-globalisers? |
OpenDemocracy |
October 2001 |
What will happen to
the growing global resistance movement in the
wake of September 11th? |
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From
the streets of Genoa |
New Internationalist online |
July 2001 |
An on-the-ground report
from the G8 protests of 2001 |
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Shadows
in the Kingdom of Light |
The Ecologist |
November 2000 |
The tiny Himalayan
kingdom of Ladakh is creating its own alternatives
to the global economy |
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From
the streets of Prague |
OneWorld online |
September 2000 |
An on-the-ground report
from the World Bank/IMF protests of 2000 |
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Bob's
Box of Tricks |
The Ecologist |
December 1999 |
Monsanto is engaging
its critics in 'dialogue.' Uh-oh… |
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|
Patchwork
Guilt |
The Guardian |
July 1999 |
Landowner power is
threatening the future of the unique Somerset
Levels |
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India
Cheers While Monsanto Burns |
The Ecologist |
February 1999 |
Monsanto says it wants
to help India's poor. But millions of them want
it gone |
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Monsanto's
Bovine Growth Hormones |
The Ecologist: Monsanto Files |
October 1998 |
The dangers and lies
that surround one of Monsanto's key products |
