Nature Is a Human Right: Why We're Fighting for Green in a Gray World

320 Pages·2022·15.331 MB·English

by  Ellen Miles

For Osea
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NATURE
IS A
HUMAN
RIGHT
Why we’re fighting for
green in a gray world
EDITED BY ELLEN MILES
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DISCLAIMERS
Content warning: Traumatic topics – including mental illness,
racism, ableism and suicide – are discussed in the text. You
can find resources on page 318 if you would like to seek support
for any of these topics.
Multi-contributor experiences: The lived experiences, opinions
and choice of language expressed in each piece belong to its
individual author(s). Some of the text in this book has been
edited in an Americanized style.
Protest and trespass: Please note the book contains text about
protesting, guerrilla gardening and trespassing. Nothing in this
book constitutes legal advice in relation to any form of
activism and should not be relied on as such. Your rights to
protest differ depending on where you live and you should seek
independent legal advice to ensure that your planned actions
are lawful. The publisher, editor and authors hereby disclaim
any liability arising directly or indirectly from the use, or
misuse, of the information contained in this book.
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CONTENTS
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14 INTRODUCTION Ellen Miles
WELFARE Why We Need Nature Around Us
28 Chapter Introduction Ellen Miles
34 The Peace of Wild Things Wendell Berry
36 The Secret Power of the Forest: From a Feeling to a Science
Professor Qing Li, MD, PhD
50 Walk Through the Jungle Shareefa Energy
54 The Necessary Medicine Jay Griffiths
64 Empathy as Resistance Sophia “So” Sinopoulos-Lloyd
66 Animism(s) and Our Need for Beyond-Human Kinship
Sophia and Pınar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd
------------ 68 Restor(y)ing Place: Tracking and the Necessity of
Ecological Intimacy Sophia “So” Sinopoulos-Lloyd
----------- 77 When Seeing the World as Alive is Called Madness
Pınar Ateş Sinopoulos-Lloyd
84 Recycled Rhythms Rashmeet Kaur
86 The Ancient Alchemy of Composting Poppy Okotcha

90 From 31 words * prose poems (“highly visual rural winter

image ...”) Evie Shockley
92 Is Nature Caffeine for Creativity? Daisy Kennedy
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INJUSTICE How We’re Being Deprived of Nature
106 Chapter Introduction Ellen Miles
112 The Enclosed Place Michelle Barrett
124 City Kid Hila the Killa
126 Crossfire: Global Intersections Ellen Miles
----------- 127 Nature’s Outcastes Elizabeth Soumya
----------- 132 After Apartheid, Green Spaces Are Still White Spaces
Celine Isimbi
----------- 136 Latvia’s Soviet Housing: A Grey Legacy in a Green
Nation Linda Ludbarza
141 How Can We End Rural Racism? It’s Time to Reimagine the
Countryside Louisa Adjoa Parker
152 Land, Real and Imagined Louisa Adjoa Parker
154 The Road to Common Ground: Trespassing with Nick Hayes
Ellen Miles interviews Nick Hayes
168 Potholes Linda Hogan
170 Disability is Natural Syren Nagakyrie
182 She’s the City Erin Rizzato Devlin
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CHANGE What We Can All Do
186 Chapter Introduction Ellen Miles
194 From On Love and Barley – Haiku of Basho (“75”)
Translation Lucien Stryk
196 What If Your City was a National Park? Daniel Raven-Ellison
210 self-portrait with a swarm of bees Jan Wagner
Translation Iain Galbraith
212 Resistance is Fertile
Ron Finley and Tayshan Hayden-Smith in conversation
226 Seed Bombs Ayesha Tan-Jones
230 Permaculture Dora Young
232 Placemaking: Putting Communities at the Heart of Urban
Greening Sharlene Gandhi
243 Rebel with a Cause: How to Become an Activist
Noga Levy-Rapoport
258 The Power of Love: Why Nature Connection is at the Root of
Solving the Climate Crisis Ellen Miles and Clover Hogan
272 Look down, look up Olafur Eliasson
274 What If? Dan Raven-Ellison and Ellen Miles

278 ENDNOTES
300 INDEX
304 CONTRIBUTORS
314 A NOTE FROM THE EDITOR
315 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
318 RESOURCES
319 CREDITS
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