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🌳 Timber Festival is taking over The Ecologist today - celebrating the existence, rather than the passing, of a festival affected by the Covid-19 lockdown.

🌳 An extract from Hendrikus van Hensbergen's forthcoming book for young people: How You Can Save the Planet.

🌳 Natural capital and the transition to different economies and values.

🌳 The heady, carefree days of Timber 2019 seem a world away now. But has the lockdown thrown into relief many things some of us have been feeling for a long time?

🌳 Being able to identify biodiversity is essential for the appreciation and conservation of wildlife both on a local and global scale.

🌳 Forest Schools can go some way to replacing what has been lost to our children during the coronavirus crisis, including schooling.

🌳 Professor Deirdre Heddon and Dr Misha Myers explain how their Walking Library functions as a public artwork connecting people with places and writing.

🌳 We can use digital technologies to educate, stimulate and highlight the crucial issues of wildlife, species loss, and nature connectedness.

🌳 Exploring the connections between zoonotic diseases, human health and well-being, ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss.

🌳 Reflections on poetry among the trees in 2019 and the power of art to nurture visions for the future.

🌳 Gathering in nature for collective experiences is a catalyst for change, and a summer apart is teaching us why.

Polling by YouGov found 63 percent of public agreed big businesses should be given financial support only if they agree to environmental and social conditions.

Investing in a green recovery could create 1.6 million new jobs after Covid crisis, report finds.

Exporting emissions is not the same as cutting them. 

GDP does not distinguish between economic activity that adds to social and environmental well-being and economic activity that destroys it.