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The Land Issue 37
| OPINION |
| MAGA - Make America Go Away; Monarch of the Mudflats. |
| NIBS & SQUIBS |
| AI Hype Train Hits Buffers; He's No Ear-O; Well, Stone the Crows!; This Summer's Circles; PFAS Panic Bubble Popped?; Street Meanies Strike Again; Tomorrow's Farm. |
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| All In Good Time |
| Greg Frey suggests a different approach to revolution. |
| Something is Rotten |
| Jonathan Cook on Corporate Corruption in British Politics. |
| Common Knowledge |
| Jon Haidt on the dynamics of making change happen. |
| A Land for Every Purpose? |
| Various Views on the new Land Use Framework Report. |
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| Street Goat |
| Ursula Billington visits a nomadic urban farm thriving in Bristol. |
| On the Goodness of Goats |
| Gill Barron proposes a bio-alternative to fire engines. |
| No Bliss for Bovines |
| Greg Frey is shocked by terrible fencing on the common. |
| A Ride in the Lambulance |
| Farmer John Dawson ruminates on upland sheep-keeping. |
| Farming for Beginners |
| A wartime manual for novices could be useful nowadays. |
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| Irish Land Reform: A Brief History |
| David Seth Jones on 20th century rearrangements. |
| Rentiers Redux |
| Chris Smaje ponders the ancient problem of landlords and their -ism. |
| Allotments! |
| Deborah Burns has an answer to the availability crisis. |
| Let the Worms Do the Work |
| Making hot compost the way Maye E Bruce recommended. |
| Viva Vernacular |
| Bernard Rudofsky's classic essay on architecture without architects. |
| Invasion of the Skeuomorphs |
| Simon Fairlie objects to fakery in form and function. |
| Hermits, Take Heart! |
| Recent low impact planning appeal successes. |
| On Meddling |
| Some advice for urban planners, amongst others, from Lewis Thomas. |
| DARC and Dangerous |
| The Government's plan to use Wales for tracking spacejunk. |
| Travelling Lighter |
| Tom Barron's nostalgic return to the Appleby Horse Fair. |
| Quest for the RaFtafari |
| A fresh look at the River Gypsy lifestyle. |
| THE LAND BY NIGHT |
| Night Lights |
| Tim Deane takes time off from the day job. |
| Bauble Earth |
| Dave Goulson on the dangers to nature (and us) from artificial light. |
| Sky Swimmers |
| The night sky has Tom Barron under its spell. |
| Sunlight on Demand? |
| Luminous satellites are coming, warn the Dark Sky Association. |
| Well Met By Moonlight |
| Close encounters with badgers, as drawn by Eileen Soper. |
| The Lightbulb Revolution |
| How a megawatt vanity caused Ceaucescu's downfall. |
| Simply Solar |
| Tom Barron's guide to backwoods electrification. |
| Saving Daylight |
| Christopher Roper says there are better battery systems than BESS. |
| Funny Money and the Fake Food Fiasco |
| Chris Smaje debunks some dangerously bad ideas. |
| REVIEWS |
| The Great Plant-based Food Con; Our Land (Film); Israel - what went wrong?; The Coffe Table Book of Doom. |
| The Last Word: Gumption |
| RM PIRSIG on getting things done, Zen or no Zen. |
| The Last Last Word: Farewell |
| Gill Barron lets Claire Bretecher explain. |
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The Land Issue 36
| COMMENT |
| Artificially Unintelligent. |
| Ukraine — Nato’s Tragic Legacy. |
| Let Us Eat Cake. |
| The case for Land Value Tax revisited. |
| Wealth — What is it good for ? |
| A.C. Grayling has the answer. |
| Back to the Hand. |
| Pulling the plug on AI: yes we can. |
| Taking on the Busybody State. |
| Josie Appleton on the campaign for everyday freedoms. |
| We Are Not Chromophobes. |
| Why The Land is in black & white. |
| SHORT STORIES |
| Grumpy Trumpy • Shelter Skelter • Boaters Bashed, Again • Changing Their Spots |
| CURRENT AFFAIRS |
| Wales — Up for Auction? |
| It’s not Starmer’s country to flog, say irate campaigners. |
| Big Energy vs Micropower |
| Local grids are a much better answer, claims Nick Rosen. |
| On Keeping the “Demo” in Democracy. |
| The outlook for protesting gets even worse. |
| Surviving Idiocracy. |
| Stupidity is the new super-power in politics, says William Davies. |
| Reflections In a Time of False Prophets. |
| The state of the world fails to impress Simon Fairlie. |
| Fuite en Avant. |
| Simon Fairlie debunks illusions of “progress”. |
| FOOD AND FARMING |
| Stand Up for Wildlife Friendly Farming. |
| Because it works, says Mark Measures. |
| Will Beaver Bombs Backfire? |
| Rewilding unsheathes its capitalist claws. |
| Beyond the Right to Roam. |
| Simon Fairlie umpires opposing views on a muddy subject. |
| Handy Human Measurements. |
| When he’s out planting, Tim Deane is all thumbs |
| Peat Bog Blues. |
| Simon Fairlie on the wasted wonders of wool. |
| Pig News. |
| Legislation to bring back pig-swill is long overdue, grumbles Gill Barron. |
| Potato Feelings. |
| Tom Barron consults Wm Cobbett about the ubiquitous tuber. |
| Oh-Oh, Here Comes Summer. |
| Even in Yorkshire, it happens, bewails farmer John Dawson. |
| INTERNATIONAL |
| Remembrement. |
| Simon Fairlie & others on the legacy of French wartime enclosures. |
| Migration Myths & Mirages. |
| Go West, young man? Franklin Obeng Odoom explains why not. |
| Return, Rebuild, Replant. |
| Julian Sayarer describes the plight of Lebanon’s farmers. |
| Ground to Dust. |
| Small farmers in Palestine are clinging on. Annie Neligan is a witness. |
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| Coming in to Land. |
| People who fly need friendly landowners, as Tom Barron explains. |
| Some books, and a film. |
| Off-grid pioneers, Cornish saboteurs, agrarian philosophers. |
| Another Precarious Community. |
| It’s crunch time at Brithdir Mawr, as Faith reports |
| Better Late Than Never. |
| A County Council sees sense on smallholdings. |
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The Land Issue 35
| COMMENT |
| The Circus Returns |
| Mike Hannis |
| Time to Cough Up |
| Gill Barron |
| When There Is No “Choice” |
| Gill Barron |
| The “Family Farm” Tax |
| Simon Fairlie |
| Who Will Police the Charity Police? |
| Simon Fairlie |
| A Matter of Mindset. |
| Colin Tudge |
| Making Poverty Affordable. |
| Gill Barron |
| Not Fine At All |
| The Manifesto Club |
| The Skin’s The Limit |
| Gill Barron |
| SHORT STORIES |
| Home Fires Are Still Burning • Ashes Rise Again • The Big Beasts Are Back • River Robbery, Sewage Scandals • Squirmin’ in their Ermine • Blue Noses, Red Faces • A Patron Saint for Peasants • Who Needs Nightingales? • Why [Not] UBI ? • A New Moon? • Taking Power to The People. |
| HEAVY METAL TECHNOLOGY |
| Scrapyards in Space. |
| Satellites are causing a celestial litter problem, as Stella Burnside explains. |
| Subs into Ploughshares. |
| How redundant shipyards could revive the Lucas Plan. |
| Special Relationship? Time to Divorce. |
| US nuclear warheads are returning to the UK, warns CND |
| Escaping Technology’s Tentacles. |
| Annelie Fitzgerald calls for a sanctuary, perhaps a rewilded one. |
| FEATURE |
| Wild Communities, Tamed Publics. |
| Chris Smaje mulls over recent books on rural and rewilding matters. |
| ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL, EDIBLE |
| B is for Beaver. |
| Three essays on living close to nature from veteran farmer & grower Tim Deane. |
| A Spark From The Arctic. |
| Freezing? David Quammen has a suggestion to warm you up. |
| Living With the Long-Tails. |
| How Greg Frey and Mark O’Leary deal with some anti-social neighbours. |
| Milk is a Multitude. |
| In Pune, India, cows live and lactate on garbage. It’s terroir, claims Lilly Kelting. |
| Recipe for A Happy Cow. |
| Farmer John Dawson describes his Yorkshire dairy. |
| McBroom Tells the Truth. |
| Every farmer’s dream is realised in this tall tale from Sid Fleischman. |
| A Good Brew is Hard to Find. |
| A classic rant, pro-beer and anti-tea, by William Cobbett himself. |
| TRAVELLING LIGHT — THE RETURN OF PEDESTRIANS |
| Making Tracks. |
| Long-distance paths for two legs and four are back on the map. |
| My Third Leg. |
| Simon Fairlie discovers new pleasure in an old pastime. |
| The Virgin and The Village. |
| How the revival of pilgrimage brings a boost to rural areas. |
| ESCHATOLOGICAL SPECULATION |
| Dies Irae, Dies Illa. |
| Gloria Mundy wonders why The End of the World still hasn’t arrived. |
| Synthetic Salvation — for Some. |
| The Transhumanists want us lot gone, as Greg Frey explains. |
| So Who Will Inherit the Earth? |
| Why is human reproduction in crisis, wonders Gill Barron. |
| The Rise and Fall of Rabbits and Pigeons. |
| A reservoir of wild protein for the future is a must-have. |
| On Transcendental Meta-Worry. |
| If the state of the world is driving you nuts, perhaps Lewis Thomas can help. |
| LETTER |
| Tim Deane locks antlers with the deer lovers. |
| PLANNING AND PEOPLE |
| Making it Work. |
| Rob Higgs tells how an old quarry has become a live/work home for artists, and nature too. |
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| Any articles not attributed to an author were written by Gill Barron. |
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The Land Issue 34
| OPINION |
| Power, Land and Pie |
| Kids Go Free |
| NEWS |
| Changing Legal Climate; Nuclear Offset Nonsense; Not So Golden |
| Eviction Update. |
| What has been happening at Monkton Wyld – and what Simon Fairlie did next. |
| On Letting Go of a Garden. |
| Gill Barron moves on. |
| George and the Food System Dragon. |
| Jim Thomas prefers local solutions to speculative technofixes. |
| Sowing the Seeds of Stability. |
| Joanna Poulton argues that farmers should receive a Basic Income. |
| Who Owns the Land Matters. |
| An analysis of the legal processes of land reform in Scotland by Bonnie VandeSteeg. |
| A Right to Hunt? |
| Owning land shouldn’t mean owning its wildlife, says Holly Marriott Webb. |
| Peninsula Golf Wars. |
| SM Parsons laments ecotouristic skulduggery on Portugal’s Costa Azul. |
| Valley Of Heart’s Delight. |
| A Californian tale by Thollem McDonas. |
| Closer Than We Think. |
| Theo Simon reflects on a long overland journey. |
| Live Large, Dream Small. |
| The Poetry of the Scythe, collated by Simon Fairlie. |
| Futurological Foodstuffs. |
| A dish of sci-fi food served by Chris Fite-Wassilak. |
| What’s so Wicked About Wood? |
| Gill Barron wants to know. Afterthoughts by Simon Fairlie. |
| Remembering the Downtrodden. |
| Simon Fairlie finds a history of peasants rather too miserable. |
| Hunting For Conservation? |
| Sian Sullivan reviews two books on hunting. |
| Radically Legal. |
| SM Parsons finds inspiration in Berlin. |
| Going Further to Seed: Bournemouth 1994. |
| Simon Fairlie recalls a curious episode. |
| The Zigzag Rollercoaster |
| Mike Hannis picks through a disappointing planning decision. |
| Uncertain Future for Brithdir Mawr. |
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The Land Issue 33
| OPINION |
| Fifteen Minutes of Fame |
| Frankenstein’s Warning |
| We Are Not Alone |
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| NEWS |
| Trespassers See Off Center Parcs; Cut Trees, Cut Carbon?; Paleo Diet Breakthrough; Skinny Dream Drug; Flying Pig Airways; Blue Sky Thinking. |
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| How The Land came to face eviction. |
| Simon Fairlie tells the story. |
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| ECOMODERNISM, FOOD AND ENERGY |
| Precision and Prohibition |
| George Monbiot accuses The Land of bucolic romanticism. Mike Hannis and Simon Fairlie respond. |
| Seven Fantasies of Manufactured Food. |
| Chris Smaje lists them. |
| Gene Edited Food - Coming Soon? |
| Pat Thomas finds out. |
| Can Nuclear Energy be Ecomodernised? |
| Not all European Greens are convinced. |
| Nuclear for Africa? |
| The track record is hardly inspiring. |
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| FARMLAND AND CONSERVATION |
| Whose Net Gain? |
| New biodiversity offsetting finance is replacing UK farm subsidies. Daniel Fox investigates. |
| A Very British Agroecology. |
| Andrew Stewart on how a good idea was co-opted. |
| Fallow Travellers. |
| Does England really have too many deer? Holly Marriott Webb is not convinced. |
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| INTERNATIONAL |
| A Cereal Problem. |
| Maria Almeida traces the arable history of southern Portugal up to the eve of 1974’s Revolution. |
| Comrades in Farms. |
| SM Parsons continues the story of the Alentejo and the land occupations of the mid 1970s. |
| Caged Nomads. |
| Aitolkyn Ashimova and Berik Ashimov lament the loss of land for herders in Kazakhstan. |
| The Drowning Land. |
| Garry Lotolung watches as parts of Indonesia disappear under the waves. |
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| Towards Land Justice. |
| Bonnie VandeSteeg has a campaign update. |
| Building Together. |
| Tom Chance enjoys a new book on the history of co-operative housebuilding. |
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| ONE PLANET DEVELOPMENT IN WALES - AND CORNWALL |
| One Planet Development. |
| Brett Sanders summarises his recent research on Wales’s landmark policy. |
| The Answer is OPD. Now What Was the Question? |
| One Planet Council’s Pete Linnell gives a personal view. |
| First OPD in Cornwall. |
| Simon Ruston celebrates. |
| Permanent At Last. |
| Alex Toogood reflects on Tinkers Bubble’s long journey to full planning permission. |
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The Land Issue 32
| OPINION |
| Rebooting Reality |
| Natural Capitalists Target Arable |
| NEWS IN BRIEF |
| Return of the Round Table • Measuring Hydrogen • In-Q-Tel • Sty in the Sky • Solar Parasols • Phosphorus: Too Much But Not Enough |
| AGRICULTURE |
| Cow Burps Seen From Space? |
| Paul Lovatt Smith examines the source of methane leaks in California. |
| Vegan Mendacity |
| How a poster campaign on the London underground manipulates statistics. |
| Boer Wars |
| What is behind the crisis in Dutch agriculture? |
| City State Holland |
| Is there a future for Dutch industrial farmers? Vincent ter Beek wonders . . . |
| A Dangerous Moment |
| . . . while Jan Douwe van der Ploeg would be happy to see them disappear. |
| Thrown to the Thistles |
| George Dunn speaks up for hill farmers facing rewilding plans. |
| National Trust “Land Grabs” |
| Its membership is divided about whether to rewild its farms. |
| Faux Meadows |
| Simon Fairlie voices misgivings about the fashion for “wildflowers” . . . |
| Conservation Meadows |
| . . . and Richard Brown responds. |
| Dangling Carrots |
| Daniel Fox looks into ELMS funding proposals for organics. |
| WORKING WITH WATER |
| When Wetter May Be Better |
| Paludiculture has pros and cons, thinks a doubtful Gill Barron. |
| Chinampa! |
| The Aztec answer to thriving in a wet world. |
| A Tale of Web-Toed Tigers |
| Greg Frey recounts the history of fenland revolts against drainage. |
| Amphibious Architecture |
| Let’s build on stilts for a wetter future. |
| Drowning the Land |
| Ingenious old ways to make floods enhance fertility are explained by Chris Riley. |
| COMMONS |
| Whispers of Better Things |
| Helen Baczkowska on how to create new commons. |
| A Forest Lottery |
| César Tomé describes a flourishing forest commons in Spain. |
| Freeman’s Wood – A Success Story |
| Emily Heath explains how a new Town Green was registered. |
| COVID |
| The Covid Consensus |
| Toby Green and Thomas Fazi look back at a curious moment in modern history. |
| RATIONING |
| Introduction |
| What do we mean by “rationing”? |
| Any Way You Slice It |
| Stan Cox provides an overview of different rationing systems. |
| The Welcome Return of Rationing |
| Shaun Chamberlin explains Tradable Energy Quotas. |
| Land Rationing |
| Three ways of allocating land more equitably are examined by Simon Fairlie. |
| CHAPTER 7 |
| Staying Afloat |
| Housing and leisure clash on London’s canals. Gill Barron hopes for a settlement. |
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The Land Issue 31
| OPINION |
| Out of the Frying Pan |
| Breaking the Landlock |
| NET ZERO NEWS |
| Emissions Gap Ruled Illegal; Beam It Down, Scotty; Shock Brokers; Nuclear Cakeism. |
| Down on the Carbon Plantation |
| with Mike Hannis |
| Feeding Britain. |
| SHELTER |
| World Without Concrete. |
| It’s coming, so let’s embrace it, says Simon Fairlie. |
| Naturally Better Building. |
| Tom Woolley has some suggestions. |
| Taming Nature |
| often gets overdone in pursuit of grandiose visions, says tree surgeon Andrew Stewart. |
| INTERNATIONAL |
| ‘Hunting Africa’: Trophy Hunting, Neocolonialism and Land. |
| Sian Sullivan joins the dots. |
| The Abandoned Land of Opportunity. |
| A tasty tale of co-operation from Italy, told by Dan Saladino |
| FOOD AND FARMING |
| The Wisdom of Uninvited Guests. |
| Chris Maughan invites everyone to map weeds as indicators of soil health. |
| Dispatches from the Tweed Front. |
| Ed Coate reads some dusty runes on the future of UK farming. |
| The Fat Gap. |
| Bojana Bajželj, Federica Laguzzi and Elin Röös scrutinise the sustainability of edible oils and fats. |
| Fat Wars. |
| Gill Barron sizes up the opposing forces. |
| Tractosaurus Rex. |
| Jess Davies and John Quinton are unimpressed by agricultural giants. |
| Tricky Pickings. |
| A scrumping tale from Clipper Dick. |
| A Neo-Distributist Proposal. |
| Chris Smaje finds inspiration in a half-forgotten political movement. |
| REVIEWS AND CULTURE |
| Monbiotic Man. |
| Simon Fairlie reviews George Monbiot’s Regenesis. |
| Anarchism, Anthropology and Agroecology. |
| Chris Smaje remembers Marshall Sahlins. |
| It’s about the Countryside, not the Country. |
| Holly Marriott Webb takes a classic modern play literally. |
| Not the People’s Flower Show. |
| Greg Sachno’s trip to Chelsea gets him thinking. |
| Advice on Community from an Anarchist Icon. |
| Evergreen wisdom from Peter Kropotkin, no less. |
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The Land Issue 30
| OPINION |
| A Duchy Subject |
| Mike Hannis recalls a proposal to reclaim royal land, not just rewild it. |
| Pie in the Sky |
| NEWS IN BRIEF |
| Indian Farmers; Whisky for Visas; Gene Editing; Hate Week; Scottish Land Tax; Save Britain’s Railway Bridges |
| TECHNOLOGY |
| The Moonshot for Clean Meat. |
| Joe Fassler shines a light on claims for laboratory-grown protein. |
| The Soil Association Self Disrupts. |
| They’ve lost the plot, say Pat Thomas and Lawrence Woodward. |
| New Toys for the Boys. |
| Will robotics and organics ever be compatible? asks Simon Fairlie. |
| A Brief History of Agriculture. |
| How labour-saving machinery destroys the labourers. |
| “NATURAL CAPITAL”: WHO PROFITS? |
| Equality in a Zero Carbon Countryside. |
| Our 2016 Rural Manifesto, revised and updated. |
| The New Green Lairds. |
| Scotland’s latest landlords are copying old tricks, as Calum Macleod reveals. |
| Northwoods. |
| A piecemeal project for rewilding Scotland. |
| Community Forest Exchange. |
| Kilfinan and Amazonia have much in common, observes Calum Macleod. |
| The Unwilding of Birkbeck Common. |
| Bill Lloyd reports on a recent tragedy of Cumbrian common land. |
| Rewilding the World. |
| The Global North’s enthusiasm for rewilding is rebuffed by the Global South. |
| Pastoral Care. |
| Animal herders are doing a vital job worldwide, as Ella Houzer and Ian Scoones explain. |
| The Invention of Wilderness. |
| Lessons from the plight of the Maasai in 1994, noted by George Monbiot. |
| FOOD AND FARMING |
| Instagram Farmers. |
| Camilla Ker looks into ways for land workers to virtually diversify. |
| Extinction Foods. |
| Excerpts from Dan Saladino’s new book, with a review by Jules Pretty. |
| Is there Life after Fert? |
| Part 4 of Simon Fairlie’s investigation into possibilities for a fossil-fuel-free future. |
| NOISE |
| Section editor: Gill Barron |
| Silence of the Land. |
| Is escalating road noise making the countryside uninhabitable? |
| Quiet Please! |
| A plea for better sound insulation for housing. |
| Dropping a Clanger. |
| Learning to live with traditional and modern sources of earache. |
| HISTORY |
| Molesworth. |
| 1984’s men-friendly alternative to Greenham Common is chronicled by Chris Dixon. |
| In Praise of the 1950s. |
| A chapter from Simon Fairlie’s new book describes some sensible habits. |
| The Culloden Conundrum. |
| Should past events be allowed to sterilise land for ever, asks Gill Barron. |
| ACCESS TO LAND |
| How to Save Land from Developers. |
| Jennie Sansom on Frome’s community land purchase. |
| Liverpool Strikes a New Note. |
| Radical proposals from the city’s groundbreaking Land Commission. |
| Chapter 7. |
| Recent planning cases involving farm dwellings, tiny homes, caravans and more. |
| BOOKS |
| The Permanent Yurt; How to Live in the Country; School Farms. |
| Going to Seed. |
| Countercultural veteran Tony Wrench reviews Simon Fairlie’s new memoir. |
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The Land Issue 29
| OPINION |
| Agir 17 |
| French activists protest 'pointless toxic developments'. Simon Fairlie approves. |
| More Is Not Less |
| Mike Hannis welcomes a climate ruling from the Netherlands. |
| NEWS |
| Bottom Trawling Is Like Flying • Down the Nuclear Plughole • Whales Shared Tactics • Roadbuilding Emissions • Refusing to Shut Up • Mexico Bans GM Corn • The Pit and the Polar Bear • Fresh From The Green House |
| Return of the Zapatistas. |
| Emma Cardwell reports on plans for a reverse invasion of Europe. |
| Lithium: Cornwall’s White Gold? |
| Tom Scott digs beneath the hype. |
| Renewing Destruction. |
| Alexander Dunlap is sceptical about large-scale renewable energy schemes. |
| Transformative Adaptation. |
| Rupert Read reflects on Extinction Rebellion’s success – and its failure. |
| Greed and its Offsets. |
| Farmland shouldn’t be used to expiate the eco-guilt of the rich, argues Simon Fairlie. |
| New Subsidies For Old. |
| An anonymous insider questions proposals to pay landowners to give up farming. |
| Community Restaurants. |
| Eating together could solve all kinds of problems, says Ben Selwyn. |
| A Farm for the Future. |
| Lizzie Haughton and Chris Walsh on setting up a community farm from scratch. |
| Eating Like Salmon. |
| Cut out the middle fish, says Christina O’Sullivan. |
| Chickens on the Border. |
| Alison Caffyn follows poultry units and their objectors through the planning system. |
| Commons and Households in A Small Farm Future. |
| Chris Smaje ponders the politics of agrarian society. |
| Free The Trees. |
| There’s no need for plastic tubes, says Keith Powell. |
| No Quarter Given. |
| SM Parsons meets perfidious Albion in Lisbon. |
| Still Carrying Greenham Home |
| Jill Raymond remembers the successful reclamation of the Common. |
| A Makeshift Jerusalem. |
| Memories of a young Simon Fairlie at Glastonbury Fair in 1971. |
| Burning Wood is not the Answer... |
| ... to climate crisis, says Almuth Ernsting. |
| Off Grid Power. |
| Elaine Forde responds to Tony Wrench’s review of her recent book. |
| Criminalising a Culture |
| Simon Ruston explains how the new PCSC Bill will affect Travellers. |
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The Land Issue 28
| OPINION |
| Better Days Ahead |
| Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts |
| NEWS IN BRIEF |
| Space Debris/Tree Mapping |
| HS2/Roadbuilding/Twyford Down |
| Indian Protests/ Disposable Mugs/Ukraine Landgrabbers |
| Rope Bridge in Glastonbury/Save Our Steam Engine/ RIP John Papworth |
| AGRICULTURE |
| The Green Tides of Brittany |
| Inès Léraud exposes the source of lethal coastal deposits in Northern France. |
| Land Hunger |
| They ain’t leasing it much any more — but there are some good schemes around. |
| Two Cheers For Crickets |
| Let them eat insects, says dairy enthusiast Camilla Ker. |
| Fifty Years of WWOOF |
| Scarlett Penn describes how a global movement grew out of small beginnings. |
| Agrarian Renaissance |
| As called for in two new books by Chris Smaje and Colin Tudge |
| FIRE |
| The Fire Broker |
| Nature provides fuel, but humans control ignition, explains Stephen Pyne. |
| Milpa |
| Sustainable slash and burn in Mexico depicted by Rosanna Morris. |
| The Dangerous Bioenergy Delusion |
| Simon Fairlie scrutinises the scientific sophistry surrounding biofuels. |
| Firewood Figures |
| Nearly half the world cooks on firewood — can that be sustained? |
| What Shall We Burn? |
| Miscanthus, default firewood and hydrogen, says Peter Harper. |
| Firewood in the Firing Line |
| Mike Gardner’s working woodland is targeted by health regulations. |
| A Horse and His Man |
| Bill Lloyd’s book about muscle power in the woods is reviewed by Gill Barron |
| The Perils of Smoke |
| Life is dangerous, scientists conclude. |
| If You Can’t Stand the Heat |
| Gill Barron on how cooking made us brainy. |
| Keep the Home Fires Burning |
| Kris De Decker lists ancient and modern ways of cooking and keeping warm. |
| SEWAGE AND FERTILITY |
| Waste or Resource? |
| Jay Abrahams explains how flush toilets can grace the environment and fill larders. |
| Embarrassment of Riches |
| Gill Barron goes down the drain. |
| Reputations: Outside Toilets |
| Jim Bollard is into outhouses. |
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| Positively Timeless |
| Gill Barron looks round the Alternative Portrait Gallery of Ed Gold. |
| HOUSING AND PLANNING |
| Despised and Rejected |
| Tess Delaney’s account of how not to do One Planet Development. |
| Off-Piste in Wales |
| Tony Wrench on how not to study One Planet Development. |
| Improvised Architecture |
| Stefan Szczelkun’ s book of photos of Thameside plotlands. |
| Coops, Communities and the Corpy |
| Tom Chance reviews Matthew Thompson’s book on Scouse housing. |
| Demolish! Demolish! Demolish! |
| The future of planning is an orgy of “regeneration”, writes Andrew Ward. |
| Driven by Data |
| . . . and subject to rules introduced to promote deregulation, Simon Fairlie discovers. |
| A Quixotic Response to Planning for the Future |
| Chapter 7 and the LWA respond to the White Paper. |
| A Whole Lotta Fakin’ Goin’ On |
| True to family form, the Duke of Marlborough is trying to enclose more land. |
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