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ECOS Author: Simon Leadbeater

Someone who, through misadventure, finds themselves in middle age living off-grid in a static mobile home under Luton’s ever busier flight path.

Simon Leadbeater is a small woodland and meadow owner living in Hertfordshire.

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STRATEGIC CHOICES, ETHICAL DILEMMAS

Stories from the Mahabharat. Aruna Narlikar, Amitabh Mattoo and Amrita Narlikar Penguin Random House, India, [...]

ECOS 44 (2): A Journey Back to Farming’s Future

A Journey Back to Farming’s Future: Compassion in World Farming’s Extinction or Regeneration conference, May [...]

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Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation

Beyond the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation: From Lethal to Compassionate Conservation Anja Heister [...]

Sixty Harvests Left

Sixty Harvests Left: How to reach a nature-friendly future Philip Lymbery Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, London, [...]

The Trespasser’s Companion

The Trespasser’s Companion: A field guide to reclaiming what is already ours Nick Hayes Bloomsbury [...]

Book Review: Thinking while Walking

Thinking while Walking: Reflections on the Pacific Crest Trail Martin Bunzl Penny Street Press, New [...]

ECOS 42 (4): The Right to Roam; the impending colonisation of nature?

The first difficulty is to see that the problem is difficult… where we thought everything [...]

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Book Review: Thirteen paces by four

THIRTEEN PACES BY FOUR: Backyard Biophilia and the Emerging Earth Ethic Joe Gray Dixi Books, [...]

Book Review: The Imagination of Plants

THE IMAGINATION OF PLANTS: A Book of Botanical Mythology Mathew Hall State University of New [...]

Crisis talks: old wisdom meets new energy

Two eye-witness accounts of November’s ECOS/UCL mini-conference To mark our 40th anniversary, ECOS joined forces [...]