This year's GreenSpirit Spring Walking Retreat brought 17 of us together in East Sussex for three days of gentle walking, beautiful scenery and good company. It was a chance to slow down, breathe deeply and reconnect with Nature and one another.
In this conversation, we are reminded that rewilding need not be grand or complicated. It begins with small, intentional steps: a pond, a patch of wildflowers, a willingness to let Nature lead. From there, life returns – often more quickly and abundantly than we might expect. And in welcoming it back, we rediscover something essential in ourselves.
... Slowly, I learnt that spirituality and religion are not the same. At 12, I decided to be a vegetarian, at 16, vegan, a commitment I plan to continue for the rest of my life. A commitment borne of love, I cannot comprehend how we can justify hurting animals based on anthropocentrism. This made me question how the rest of my beliefs have been shaped. How limited it is to define the worth of Nature solely by its utility to humans.
"Famous Last Words: Dr. Jane Goodall" is a deeply personal, intimate interview-style documentary that is both a tribute and a farewell from one of the most influential scientists and humanitarians of the modern era.
About seven years ago, something happened that rocked my world. It involved a Lakota elder, an Irish conservationist, a South African wildlife communicator... I discovered that everything in creation talks, and that human beings can tap into that great conversation and learn from the very many diverse intelligences that belong to this incredible, ancient being we call Earth.
This documentary starts with exploring the oceans and their abundant wildlife. It is a visual feast – capturing everything from coral reefs and kelp forests to whales, dolphins and much more.
Nature has been a strong thread through all my life, but it has been particularly valuable and I believe healing, especially in my emotional or mental health in the last few months during my treatment for cancer.
What is it to be 'green' and spiritual? To live according to the parameters of GreenSpirit, I muse that, for me, my journey is perhaps more in tune with nature mysticism, as I connect on a deep, inner level to the One energy and Source of Gaia and Life, including the myriad lifeforms that share this incredible, priceless planet with us.
In Sheffield, one of Europe’s greenest cities, the council had a contract with a Spanish firm to improve the roads. This included cutting down a lot of trees, many of them along the sides of roads. This film is a true account of the local activists who took it upon themselves to confront, and to try to stop, the council from this appalling destruction.
The concept of this novel appears quite simple. It follows one day in the life of six astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Nothing dramatic happens – there are no emergencies or aliens – yet the result is a beautiful and poetic (short) book which won the 2024 Booker Prize.
