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.
The New Scientist magazine ran their annual weekend of talks and stalls at ExCel London – a large exhibition space – in October 2024.
Do you go rambling, forest bathing or hiking? Well, here is a game changer to help you. In the same way that sat navs have transformed car travel, I am sure that this app (and similar ones) will transform hiking in the same way.
I’ve been to Buddhafield five times, and each time I’ve enjoyed it. If you are not a Buddhist (I’m not), don’t be put off by the title. The festival is more of a Buddhist/Pagan infusion, and it has a lot in common with green spirituality.
Alanna Penhaligan made a promise to her grandson Finn on her deathbed, that she would come back to him and play wargames on the internet with him. In doing so, she bound herself to the ‘Between’ in the afterlife.
Ten minutes’ walk from London’s Kew Gardens Station are the botanical gardens themselves. Founded in the late 19th century, Kew is London’s largest UNESCO World Heritage Site, which holds the world’s largest collection of living plants and consists of various well-known glasshouses that are surrounded by expansive green areas where such things as a Bamboo Garden and large Rock Garden can be found.
This is a wonderful film about the Knepp Estate, which is a farm that has been rewilded – mostly by letting Nature do its thing but also with the introduction of some animals such as pigs.
This is a Virtual Reality experience taking you from the formation of the Earth 4.5 billion years ago through to today. In the experience, after seeing planet Earth formed, the story moves on to early life. Later there are primordial forests, dinosaurs and an early form of humans – a different branch than the one that led to homo sapiens.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881 – 1955) was born in the Auvergne region in France and became a Jesuit Priest. He was deeply committed to his spiritual journey and, throughout his life, he did not waver from his vision of a loving divine presence embedded in the world. However, his scientific work, particularly in palaeontology where he became an advocate for evolution, put him at odds with the dogma of the Catholic Church.
