Only minutes after my last post, it started snowing. But it’s warmed up now and there really is a feeling of spring in the air, shoots coming up, and even a patch of winter aconite under the trees at the back of the garden. I’m experimenting with photo systems, and herewith testing one of the [...]

I love hearing from readers. Every author does. But write an environmental book and 90% of the letters will be from crackpots—people obsessed with one specific cause that for them looms larger than the big issues I’m trying to help readers focus on.
There was the person whose worry was the chemicals used in mushroom farming, [...]

I have the same tired but true story as many women about getting interested in environmental issues when I first had a baby; parental instincts are powerful, and we want to think of our children growing up in a world that still has a little greenery and where they can drink cold water and relish [...]