David George Haskell: Can we know more leaf shapes than corporate logos?
The Pulitzer Prize Nominee on reconnecting with nature, tuning into its sounds, sights, and textures, and finding joy in everyday sensory...
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A chorus for life on Earth
Nina Sosanya: Jurassic Park shows what happens when you mess with nature - it bites your head off!
The stage, television, and film actor on embracing change and putting nature at the heart of popular culture. I’ve always had a double...
Gillian Burke: I'd rather go down on a burning planet where we're all together than have a planet that works for some but not for all
The BBC Springwatch presenter, voiceover artist and biologist on finding an outlet for what can’t be said on pre-watershed TV. I was a...
Andy Cato: Farmers manuring town halls and NHS strike action are two symptoms of the same problem: Our food system isn’t working
The Groove Armada musician, record producer and DJ on why it’s time to turn our backs on our current industrial food system. Farmers...
Jenny Beavan: There are so many nature stories out there just waiting to be told. Maybe now is the time
The Oscar-winning costume designer on a love for gardening, a hate for waste, and the dawn of a new era in storytelling. It’s taken me 30...
Kumi Naidoo: How did we move people into the struggle against apartheid? Music, dance, and theatre
The former chief of Amnesty International and Greenpeace International, Kumi Naidoo on why climate activism has misfired. For a while...
Maddie Moate: We are seeing fewer and fewer faces of actual human beings on children's television
The BAFTA award-winning children’s presenter, YouTuber, educator and author on why, how and when children need to be included in the...
Jess Fostekew: I knew I wanted to be a funny loud angry bitch screaming in favour of clean air
The comedian, actor and writer on ULEZ, the future of comedy and not giving a sh*t about what critics write. I've just had five nights in...
Oliver Jeffers: The most important people at COP26 were the taxi drivers
The award-winning visual artist and author on why fixing many of the world’s problems means letting go of our obsession with being right....
Benjamin Zephaniah: Most great revolutions start from the bottom and come up
The poet, writer, lyricist and musician on living a life that aspires to "do the least harm and most good". Most people in the world are...
Lily Cole: We need to switch the narrative from sacrifice to improvement
The environmental activist, model, actor, and filmmaker on imperfect environmentalism, the power of culture and shifting mindsets. It...
Cristina Zenato: We have somehow diminished sea creatures’ capabilities to think, feel and connect
The shark diver and conservationist on mending our disconnection to the ocean. A quarter of a century ago world leading shark expert...
Mya-Rose Craig: Conservation today continues to be entrenched in its colonial roots
The British Bangladeshi ornithologist and campaigner for equal rights discusses her mission to increase Visible Minority Ethnic (VME)...
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim: Women and Indigenous peoples can help win the war on climate change
The President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT) on ensuring equity in the fight to slow climate change....
Captain Paul Watson: We’ve become a bunch of conceited naked apes, divine legends in our minds
The founder of Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace on why peaceful protest will no longer do. We live in a world of short-term investment for...
Sunita Narain: It’s coyness that’s killing action on climate change
Sunita Narain achieved cult status long before she was featured in Time magazine’s 100 Most Influential List or even before her iconic...
Dr Rupert Read: If you don’t care about non-human life you don’t care about human life
As Extinction Rebellion’s official spokesperson, Dr Rupert Read has stood – and sat – alongside the group since its beginning. Here he...
Caroline Lucas: GDP is a really rubbish measurement on just about every count
The UK's only Green MP on cutting through greenwash, holding governments to account, and championing wellbeing over economic growth. As...
Sir Tim Smit: People could be paid to be champions of the natural world
“You know why everyone thinks we’re so great? Because everything else is so mediocre in aspiration,” says the Eden Project’s founder and...
Jojo Mehta: Putting mass damage to nature on a par with mass damage to people creates an equivalence
Stop Ecocide was set up by Jojo Mehta and the late Polly Higgins in 2017 to place boundaries on the destruction of nature through a...
Ali Keskitalo: The world needs green power, but we have no more land to give
For hundreds of years, Indigenous peoples in the Arctic have borne the brunt of colonialism and racism. Like their global counterparts,...
Rachel Kyte: Design solutions for the most vulnerable and poorest first
Rachel Kyte is one of the world’s most influential authorities on climate change. She has led UN efforts towards greater access to clean...
Denis Hayes: If you’re wrong on climate, get out of office and put in someone who will act
Denis Hayes, now CEO of the Bullitt Foundation, was a 25-year-old student at Harvard Kennedy School when he quit studying to coordinate a...
Hugo Tagholm: We can’t litter pick our way out of the problem
As with most campaigning groups, a moment catalyses the movement. For a surfer in the 1980s, it was emerging from beneath a wave with...
Juliet Davenport: Climate change is mentioned less than cats in TV dramas
When Juliet Davenport had an idea to create a company that would give consumers the power to tackle the climate crisis by choosing...
John Elkington: We need more women leaders at every level in our society
John Elkington's Triple Bottom Line theory of People, Planet and Profit still forms the backbone of many companies, including the B Corp...
Dr Tara Shine: Lots of people making small changes add up to a lot of impacts
Covid showed that successfully tackling something that colossal depended on everybody, from individuals to governments, playing their...
Susie Crick: If we stop buying single-use plastics, they will disappear
Environmental campaigner and first female chair of the Surf Rider’s Association, Susie Crick, on why we can't wait for companies to do...
Sir Patrick Holden: The true cost of cheap food? We have only 30 harvests left
Patrick Holden, founding director of the Sustainable Food Trust, on the urgent need to rebuild our food and farming systems. You need to...
Tim Christophersen: We need the imagination to see that a different world is possible
Former head of the UN Environment Programme’s Nature for Climate branch, Tim Christophersen on resetting our relationship with nature,...
Gleb Raygorodetsky: Indigenous peoples have to deal with the consequence of someone else’s decisions
Award-winning author, Indigenous peoples' ally and National Geographic Explorer, Gleb Raygorodetsky on the inextricable links between...
David Ritter: The dead hand of the coal industry is an assault on Australian democracy
CEO of Greenpeace Australia Pacific, David Ritte, on unleashing Australia's potential as a clean energy superpower. Australia must come...
Nasreen Al-Amin: We have to use Indigenous knowledge
Nasreen Al-Amin, founder and executive director of Nigerian non-profit Surge Africa, on working with Indigenous and local communities to...
Sir Jonathon Porritt: It all comes down to whether our politicians have got the long-term vision
Environmentalist, author and founder director of Forum for the Future on finding hope in technology, the power of civil disobedience and...
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