Climate change and sustainability

Pam Lunn's 2011 Swarthmore lecture explores how our spiritual and social community can help us meet the challenge of climate change.

The Arab region is a focus of world politics, with authoritarian regimes, significant fossil fuel reserves and histories of colonialism and imperialism. It is also the site of potentially immense green energy resources.

Capitalism is driving us towards ecological disaster. Its profit-first, 'growth at any cost' logic is incompatible with a sustainable environment or genuine human happiness.

For as long as there have been civilizations, there has been the urge to venture outside of them, either in search of other civilizations or in search of novelty.

Climate and environment-related fears and anxieties are on the rise everywhere. As with any type of stress, eco-anxiety can lead to burnout, avoidance, or a disturbance of daily functioning.

A critical ecofeminist scholar, Wiebe invites collective envisioning and enacting of caring, ethical relations between humans and the planet, including our atmospheres, lands, waters, animals, plants and each other.

Proposing a revolutionary new narrative for a unified social movement.Through global cooperation, we can face this collective threat - ecologically, socially, politically and spiritually.

Light is changing, dramatically. Our world is getting brighter - you can see it from space. But is brighter always better? Artificial light is voracious and spreading.

For readers of George Monbiot, Mark Cocker and Robert Macfarlane - an urgent and lyrical account of endangered places around the globe and the people fighting to save them.

From mystical woodlands and sweeping downland to the twinkling lights of coastal towns and the dramatic architechture of Britain's cities, this magnificent collection showcases the country's best photographic talent.