Give and take
The Resurgence Trust
Reconnecting with the Living Planet - through Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, The Ecologist website and regular events.
As we approach the festive season, we invite you to reflect on the give and take of Nature, the nature of giving, and the giving of Nature.
We revisit articles from the Resurgence archive on Satish Kumar's 8,000-mile pilgrimage, where he relied on the kindness and giving of others for food, shelter and hospitality.
In light of these themes, Resergence is thrilled to share a special festive offer for the ultimate Christmas gift. Give a present that brings meaning and joy to those who care deeply about Nature, people, and our planet’s future, with membership of The Resurgence Trust.
A present that will inspire and uplift all year round
For those who love Nature and care deeply for the future of people and planet, there are few gifts as heart-warming as this!
With this festive offer, your loved one will receive six hope-filled issues of Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, monthly meditations and much more.
This is a present that will nourish your nearest and dearest throughout the year — a gift that keeps on giving and one that truly makes a difference, both to your loved one and to our collective future.
Membership benefits include:
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Annual online event for members?— a chance to connect with fellow members and leading lights in environment and spiritual fields
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Resurgence archive article
Give and take
by Satish Kumar, Issue 324, January/February 2021
Satish Kumar reflects on the profound nature of generosity and the generosity of Nature, both of which he encountered during his 8,000-mile peace walk from India to the United States.
During this journey, Satish relied solely on the kindness of strangers and the bounty of Nature. Along his route, in places from Pakistan to Europe, he was gifted warmth, food and hospitality, reaffirming his belief in humanity’s innate generosity.
Resurgence event
Hope in Action: living in times of emergency and?emergence
Tuesday?3?December?2024 Online, Zoom
A talk by Satish Kumar and reflective practices and discussions guided by Georgie Gilmore and Flo Scialom.
Resurgence video
Change the story: gifts
Satish Kumar reflects on the bounty of life as a gift. He emphasises the abundance of blessings we receive from Nature and from life itself, urging us to recognise these gifts and reciprocate.
Filmed in Hartland, Devon, this video is part of Resurgence’s Change the Story series, aiming to inspire gratitude and environmental stewardship.
Online film showing
The Nettle Dress
Textile artist Allan Brown spent seven years making a dress by hand, using only the fibre of locally foraged stinging nettles. This is ‘hedgerow couture’, the greenest of slow fashion. It’s also the medicine that helped him survive the death of his wife, which left him and their four children bereft, and how he finds a beautiful way to honour her.
The Nettle Dress has been a grassroots, word-of-mouth sensation. Last year the film was screened in over 250 cinemas in the UK, reaching number 8 for documentaries in the box office — unheard of for a film about craft.
Now the film has been made available to watch online until 2 December 2024. Also included is a 30-minute pre-recorded Q&A session with Allan Brown and Dylan Howitt, the director of the film, with more of the background of the making of both the dress and the film.
Dylan described his experience in an article published in Issue 342 of Resurgence & Ecologist (Jan/Feb 2024), which is free to read online.
Gifts of knowledge and wisdom
Find the perfect Christmas gift in the Resurgence bookshop — thoughtfully curated titles that inspire, inform and empower.
领英推荐
Radical Love
by Satish Kumar
To see peace in our lifetimes, we have to practise love.
This is the radical message of this inspirational book of pithy advice from environmental activist Satish Kumar?
Terra Viva
by Vandana Shiva
Vandana Shiva shares her most memorable campaigns, alongside some of the world’s most celebrated activists and environmentalists, all working toward a liveable planet and healthier democracies.
Hope...is the Thing
by Susan Elizabeth Clark
This little book will show you how to choose Hope when things don't go your way, and embrace all the magic it will bring to your life.
Resurgence podcast
Hope Springs episode 5: Andy Cato
A Resurgence podcast with Annabel Heseltine
In episode five of Hope Springs, Annabel sits down with Andy Cato from the electric music duo Groove Armada, who in 2007 sold his music rights and ploughed the profits into a piece of land in the Pyrenees.
In?this series of podcasts we hear from people working on the frontline of the?environmental?crisis and explore what compels them to achieve remarkable things for the natural world.
Resurgence recommends...
Encounter
A guided Nature journal that lives in your phone
Award-winning Suffolk Nature writer and novelist Melissa Harrison has created an app to improve people's connection to Nature.
With a soft launch this month, to be followed by full launch in Spring 2025, Encounter is a free, guided Nature journal full of personalised tips and information on what you can expect to see, hear and experience in your local area, all year round.?
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Nature Morte
October Gallery, London presents a new solo exhibition by Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga
14 November 2024 — 25 January 2025
Eddy Kamuanga Ilunga is one of the most exciting contemporary artists from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In his fourth solo show at October Gallery, his striking paintings explore the hidden consequences of the toxic waste that is poisoning the environment on which local Congolese communities depend for survival and the basic necessities of life.
Rooted in Ethics
Exploring ethical partnership through the lens of ancestral wisdom
Tuesday 3 December 2024, Online?
In this webinar, Be The Earth Foundation hosts a discussion with special guests Grandma Jyoti Ma, Yeye Luisah Teish, and Ashley Tamburello, Georgina Gorman and Madeleine Scrodellis from TreeSisters.
We hope you enjoy this seasonal offering from Resurgence on the bounty of Nature, gifts, reciprocity and hope.
With all good wishes,?
The Resurgence Team
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