references (updated regularly)

See also: https://www.allwecansave.earth/references

Abram, D. (1997). The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World: Perceptions. New York: Vintage Books

Barker, C. M. https://flowerfairies.com

Barkham, P. (2021). Flower power! The movement to bring back Britain's beautiful meadows, The Guardian, 28 January 2021. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jan/28/flower-power-the-movement-to-bring-back-britains-beautiful-meadows 

Barkham, P. (2018). The magical wilderness farm: raising cows among the weeds at Knepp, The Guardian, 15 June 2021. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jun/15/the-magical-wilderness-farm-raising-cows-among-the-weeds-at-knepp  

Berry, W. (2018). The Peace of Wild Things: And Other Poems. London: Penguin

Blackball, S. (2020). If You Come to Earth. San Francisco: Chronicle Books

adrienne maree brown (2017). Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds. Chico, CA: AK Press

Carson, R. (2020). Silent Spring. New ed. London: Penguin Modern Classics

Clark, D. (2011). ‘A complete guide to carbon offsetting’, The Guardian. 16 Sept 2011. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2011/sep/16/carbon-offset-projects-carbon-emissions?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

Cook, J., Supran, G., Lewandowsky, S., Oreskes, N., & Maibach, E., (2019). America Misled: How the fossil fuel industry deliberately misled Americans about climate change. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Center for Climate Change Communication. Available at https://www.climatechangecommunication.org/america-misled/

Davis, K. (2021). Intrinsic Hope: Living Courageously in Troubled Times. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers

Dines, T. (2021). Spring into Action with Plantlife: Creating a meadow in the Conwy valley. online talk via Plantlife UK 3 Feb. 2021 Eventbrite

Flesher, J. (2021). Carbon Capture Offers Hope for Climate, Cash for Farmers, Associated Press, 20 May 2021

Fountain, H. (2021). A Different Kind of Land Management: Let the Cows Stomp. New York Times, 17 February 2021

Gates, B. (2021). How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: The Solutions We Have and the Breakthroughs We Need. London: Penguin

Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Charlotte, NC: Duke University Press

Harvey, G. (1998). The Killing Of The Countryside. New York: Vintage

Harvey, G. (2002). The Forgiveness of Nature: The Story of Grass. New York: Vintage

Heim, T. (2020). ‘The Indignous Origins of Regenerative Agriculture’, via nfu.org https://nfu.org/2020/10/12/the-indigenous-origins-of-regenerative-agriculture/ 

IPBES-IPCC CO-SPONSORED WORKSHOP, BIODIVERSITY AND

CLIMATE CHANGE WORKSHOP REPORT 2021, Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Available at: https://www.ipbes.net/sites/default/files/2021-06/20210609_workshop_report_embargo_3pm_CEST_10_june_0.pdf 

Kaplan, S. (2021). ‘Joanne Chory is using plants to save the planet’, Washington Post, April 28, 2021. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2021/joanne-chory-climate-plants/?tid=a_classic-iphone&no_nav=true&itid=ap_sarahkaplan

Kaplan, S. (2021). ‘A narrow path for Biden’s ambitious land conservation plan’, Washington Post, May 6, 2021. Available at: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/05/06/biden-conservation-30x30/ 

Kaza, S. (2020) A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time. Berkeley: Shambhala Publications

Kemmerer, R. W. (20xx). A Natural and Cultural History of Moss. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions

Kemmerer, R. W. (2015). Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions

Kernan, N. (2001). ‘What They Are: A Conversation with Wolfgang Tillmans’, Art on Paper, May-June 2001, pp. 60-67. Available at: http://tillmans.co.uk/images/stories/pdf/nathan_kernan_interview_web.pdf 

Elizabeth Kolbert (2021). Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

Laing, O. (2020). Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. London: Picador

Ursula Le Guin (2019). The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction. Ignota Books

Lent, J. (2021). Toward an Ecological Civilization, YES! Spring 2021, p. 19-25

Lewis-Stempel, J. (2014). Meadowland: the private life of an English field. London: Transworld Digital (Penguin)

Macy, J. (2007). World as Lover, World as Self: A Guide to Living Fully in Turbulent Times: Courage for Global Justice and Planetary Renewal. Parallax Press

Macy, J. (2012). Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We're in without Going Crazy. New World Library

Macy, J. (2014). Coming Back to Life: The Updated Guide to The Work that Reconnects. New Society Publishers

Macy, J. (2020). A Wild Love for the World: Joanna Macy and the Work of Our Time. Shambhala

Mangan, A. (2020). ‘Decolonizing Regenerative Agriculture: An Indigenous Perspective’ via bioneers.org https://bioneers.org/decolonizing-regenerative-agriculture-indigenous-perspective/ 

May, K. (2020). Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times. London: Rider

McCoy, B. (2019). By making plant roots grow deeper, these geneticists hope to curb climate change. PBS.org July 17, 2019. Available at: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/by-making-plant-roots-grow-deeper-these-geneticists-hope-to-curb-climate-change

McMorrow, E. (2021). Grounded: A Fierce, Feminine Guide to Connecting with the Soil and Healing from the Ground Up. Boulder: Sounds True

Methorst, J. Et al. (2021). ‘The importance of species diversity for human well-being in Europe’, Ecological Economics, Volume 181, March 2021, 106917, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2020.106917 

Michael E. Mann (2021). The New Climate War: the fight to take back our planet 

Dian Million (2013). Therapeutic Nations: Healing in an Age of Indigenous Human Rights. University of Arizona Press

Montag, D., Adams, C. (Eds) (2016). Soil Culture: bringing the Arts down to earth.

Morris, J. & Macfarlane, R. (2018). The Lost Words. New York: Penguin

Morris, J. & Macfarlane, R. (2020). The Lost Spells. London: Hamish Hamilton

Moss, S. (2021). Why Meadows Matter, online talk via MoorMeadows.org 3 Feb. 2021 Eventbrite https://moormeadows.org.uk/events/why-meadows-matter-and-why-we-need-more-of-them-with-stephen-moss/ 

Obama, M. (2012). American Grown: The story of the White House Kitchen Garden and Gardens Across America. London: Ebury Press

Packham, C. and McMubbin, M. (2021). Back to Nature: How to Love Life – and Save It. London: Two Roads

Penniman, L. (2019). By Reconnecting With Soil, We Heal the Planet and Ourselves, YES! Magazine, Spring 2019 

https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/dirt/2019/02/14/by-reconnecting-with-soil-we-heal-the-planet-and-ourselves/

PlantLife UK Meadows Hub https://meadows.plantlife.org.uk

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Porritt, J. (2020). Hope in Hell: A decade to confront the climate emergency. London: Simon & Schuster

Prevot, F. (2018). Wangari Maathai: The Woman Who Planted a Million Trees: The Woman Who Planted Millions of Trees. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge Publishing

Raworth, K. (2017). Doughnut Economics: 7 Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist. London: Cornerstone Digital

Reed, S. (2021). ‘Oil Giants Prepare to Put Carbon Back in the Ground’, New York Times, March 8 2021. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/08/business/carbon-capture-bp.html?referringSource=articleShare 

Cutcha Risling Baldy (2018). We Are Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies. University of Washington Press

Robinson, K. S. (2020). The Ministry for the Future. Orbit

Rosen, J. (2021). ‘The Science of Climate Change Explained: Facts, Evidence and Proof’, The New York Times. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/article/climate-change-global-warming-faq.html?referringSource=articleShare 

Sanderson, S. and Hew D.V. (2002). Commercial uses of wild and traditionally managed plants in England and Scotland. Prendergast Centre for Economic Botany

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. DOI: 10.1.1.458.2610

Serpentine Galleries, Back to Earth https://www.serpentinegalleries.org/whats-on/back-to-earth/

Toland A., Stratton Noller, J., Wessolek, G., eds. (2019). Field to Palette: Dialogues on Soil and Art in the Anthropocene. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press

Tree, I. (2018). Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm. London: Picador

U.S. Department of the Interior (2021). Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful. U.S. Commerce, Interior and Agriculture Departments. Available at: https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/report-conserving-and-restoring-america-the-beautiful-2021.pdf 

Vogt, W. (1948). Road to Survival. Whitefish, MT: Kessinger Publishing

Ward, K. (2021). ‘How to Awaken our Ecological Psyche’, YES! Magazine, Spring 2021. Bainbridge Island, WA: Positive Futures Network. Available at: https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/awaken-our-ecological-psyche 

Warfield, Z. J. (2021). Toward an Ecological Civilization, YES! Magazine, Spring 2021. Bainbridge Island, WA: Positive Futures Network. Available at: https://www.yesmagazine.org/issues/ecological-civilization/ 

Weston, P. (2021). Went to mow … but stopped: how UK cities embraced the meadows revolution, The Guardian, 10 July 2021. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/jul/10/went-to-mow-but-stopped-how-uk-cities-embraced-meadows-revolution-aoe 

WICKOUSKI, S. (2020) “ecofeminism(s)” Exhibition Connects Feminism, Art and Eco-Consciousness 9/1/2020 Available at: https://msmagazine.com/2020/09/01/ecofeminisms-exhibition-connects-feminism-art-and-eco-consciousness/ 

Winters, C. (2021). Three Cities Switching To Life-Affirming Economies

“Doughnut economics” invites nature and social well-being into urban planning. YES! Magazine Spring 2021, pp. 26-32. Available at: https://www.yesmagazine.org/issue/ecological-civilization/2021/02/16/cities-life-affirming-economies/

:::

http://www.magnificentmeadows.org.uk/advice-guidance (multiple PDFs)

Action now for species-rich grasslands (pdf)

https://www.growwilduk.com/why-wildflowers-matter 

https://www.resurgence.org/magazine/article4374-bringing-the-arts-down-to-earth.html

 Multiple reports in Drive:

https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature

https://www.globallandscapesforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/GLF_Biodiversity_Outcome_Statement.pdf

https://orca.cf.ac.uk/88972/1/Anthropocene-Capitalocene-Cthulocene%20FINAL.pdf

Talks and webinars

Plantlife UK: How to Create a Meadow (Zoom), Talk by Matt Pitts, 25 March 2021 https://youtu.be/cF-K7Ce-NFo 

Film and video

Ecosystem Based Adaption: The Great Work of Our Time, John D. Liu

Soil Saturdays: the art of connecting with soil through food

The film Soil Saturdays: the art of connecting with soil through food was commissioned by Molly Scott Cato MEP to bring an artistic intervention into the Greens and the European Free Alliance conference, ‘Why Soil Matters? a European perspective’ held in Brussels in November 2015 as part of UN International Year of Soils. https://vimeo.com/146634470 

Soil Culture: young shoots

Between August 2014 and June 2015 the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) initiated 12 Soil Culture artist residencies. In the lead up to and coinciding with the United Nations International Year of Soils 2015, the short residencies are aimed at encouraging an exploration of the importance of soil. https://vimeo.com/zoeyou/soil-culture-young-shoots 

4 days of Sun and Soil: A record of the Soil Culture Forum at Falmouth University which examined how the arts can get us to engage with the secret crisis of our soils. https://vimeo.com/bryonystokes/soilculture 

Talking global science, policy and innovation: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Why now? What’s next?

https://events.globallandscapesforum.org/agenda/biodiversity-2020/28-october-2020/talking-global-policy-agendas-strengthening-the-post-2020-agenda-for-biodiversity-and-ecosystem-restoration/

Creating a Nature-Based Planetary Safety Net

https://www.learningfornature.org/en/topic/session-2-creating-a-nature-based-planetary-safety-net/

BBC Follow the Food

https://www.bbc.com/future/bespoke/follow-the-food/

Glenda Nicholls is a Waddi Waddi, Ngarrindjeri and Yorta Yorta artist. Nicholls is a master weaver, constructing elaborate sculptural works that connect the present with her ancestral past. She applies cultural weaving techniques acquired from her ancestors alongside intimate knowledge of the waterways, plants and grasses on her Country.

https://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/multimedia/triennial-glenda-nicholls/

Down to Earth, Iceland

Zac Efron and Darin Olien

https://www.netflix.com/title/80230601?s=i&trkid=14170032

Geothermal energy at ON Power Geothermal Park (Carbfix reinvents offgasses back into rock and it crystallizes into quartz and fools gold https://www.on.is/en/environment/geothermal-park/ 

Daylesford Discusses: Saving British Biodiversity

https://youtu.be/3EfMATUsHwY

Panel discussions with:

  • Dr Richard Benwell, Chief executive of Wildlife and Countryside Link

  • Paul de Zylva, Senior Nature Campaigner at Friends of the Earth

  • Shaun Spiers, Executive Director of the Green Alliance

  • Alison Debney, ZSL’s Senior Conservation Programme Manager (UK and Europe) and Chair of the Essex Native Oyster Restoration Initiative

  • Environmental scientist at Daylesford TIM FIELD


4 per 1000 Soils for Food Security https://youtu.be/AY9YVwJZDvw 

The Earth Beneath our Feet

Groundswell Agriculture video talk in collaboration with 5x15stories.com

https://youtu.be/nnYVEcbhL7A 

The Peace of Wild Things

Animated reading by Wendell Barry

https://vimeo.com/451530204

Using algae to cut CO2 emissions https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-57675513 

Podcasts

For the Wild, Gopal Dayaneni on the Exploitation of Soil and Story 

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/for-the-wild/id942809988?i=1000520696624

The case for climate optimism via Today, Explained

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/today-explained/id1346207297?i=1000517960439

Wangari Maathai: Marching with Trees https://onbeing.org/programs/wangari-maathai-marching-with-trees/

On Being with Krista Tippett: Katherine May, How ‘Wintering’ Replenishes https://onbeing.org/programs/katherine-may-how-wintering-replenishes/

For the Wild: SEVERINE VON TSCHARNER FLEMING on the Commons to Which We Belong  Https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/for-the-wild/id942809988?i=1000503336746 

Cleaning Up the Carbon Mess, AMatter of Degrees Podcast

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-matter-of-degrees/id1534829787?i=1000499457533

Also look at:

See Braiding Sweetgrass reading group biblio

Thick Ezra Klein site of art as a space for thick storytelling

Goldmine: https://www.campaignfornature.org/science-page