Kindness and Coronavirus
We can’t allow the pandemic to break the circle of hospitality.
Why the Fate of Scotland’s Salmon Depends on its Forests
Taking Back the Land
Published in Resurgence, November 2020
A review of ‘The Book of Trespass’ by Nick Hayes.
Survivors
Reshaping the World
A review of ‘This Land is Our Land’ by Jedediah Purdy.
Six Kilometres
The Bond of Memory
Published in Resurgence, November 2019
A review of ‘Surfacing’ by Kathleen Jamie.
Why Big Banks are Accused of Funding the Climate Crisis
Depth and Breadth
A review of ‘Underland’ by Robert Macfarlane and ‘Horizon’ by Barry Lopez.
Ex-cons for Conservation: Can prison actors save Malawi’s national tree from extinction
Meet The Island Communities Fighting Back Against Wealthy, Absent Landlords
Fairbourne
Climate Change and the Paris Conference: Seeing Hope in Activism
Who's Afraid of Reintroducing the Wolf?
The Place Where Wolves Could Soon Return
The Taboo of Sex and Age
The Taboo of Sex in Care Homes for Older People
Cast Adrift
What Tammy Needs to Know About Getting Old and Having Sex
My Free-floating Life on the Waterways of London
The Divestment Movement Gathering Pace in Cities
Benediction Bankers
The Prior in charge of Britain's most unlikely novitiates
Europe, The Very Very Long Way
It takes four hours to fly the 3,500 miles from England to Istanbul. It took me 247 days to walk.
Boaters Increasingly Under Threat From Eviction
More and more Londoners are living on boats, but their lifestyle is under threat.
We Didn't Know It Couldn't Be Done
The legacy of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, 25 years on.
What's the Hitch?
Does hitchhiking have a place in modern Britain?
Protest As a Way of Life
An interview with the Indian activist Rajagopal.
Churches Turn Up The Heat On Climate Changers
Looking at the growing number of faith groups that are divesting from fossil fuels.
Into the Wilderness
Chris McCandless and the Alaskan wilderness are more complicated than they seem.
The Human Ecology Behind the Feral Dream
Talking about the reintroduction of wolves into Scotland.
The Alaskan Town Where People Still Pan For Gold
Point Hope
Peak oil and peak whale in America’s oldest settlement: Point Hope, Alaska.
Have You Seen This Wolf?
My search for the last wolf in Great Britain.
When Global Warming Kills Your God
The Winter Pilgrim
Divesting In The Future
An interview with Bill McKibben about 350.org’s fossil fuel divestment campaign.
The Mary Michael Pilgrims’ Way
A walk across Dartmoor following the newly opened Long Distance Footpath.
Redemption Road
Giving Power To Strangers
TEDxLSE, 17th March 2012
Some reflections on the hospitality I received on an eight month walk to Istanbul.
The Lessons of Pilgrimage
What pilgrimage can teach us about the importance of the return.
The Rime of the Modern Mariner
Man vs Machine
Hitchhiking: The Greenest Form of Transport That Nobody Uses?
Le Quattro Volte
Directed by Michelangelo Frammartino
Love of Strangers is a Vital, Open Act, and a Risk Worth Taking
Looking at the hospitality encountered on a walk from England to Istanbul.
Moving at the Speed of Life
Walking 3,500 miles from England to Istanbul in 2010.
In Sacred Footsteps
Discussing the role that walking and pilgrimage can play in restoring ecological values.
Where Spirit Lies
The direct action movement in the UK, and some of the core values that drive it.