
Thanks to our kind partners at Resurgence and Ecologist, we are delighted to be able to provide access to a diverse wealth of articles. You’ll find them in the XRU Library, along with a long list spanning many disciplines below.
Resurgence & Ecologist magazine offers positive, pragmatic and systemic solutions to the global challenges of today.
Published by an educational charity for social and ecological justice, this trailblazing publication has been at the forefront of the environmental movement since the ‘60s, covering the issue of climate breakdown long before it became mainstream. This magazine’s pioneering archive provides both a retrospective and contemporary analysis of the most pressing issues of our time, and seeks to inform and inspire change.
Click here to find out how you and your fellow students/academics can gain free access to the entirely of this publication’s 50+ year archive through your university.
Politics & Economics
Dr Gareth Dale, who teaches Politics at Brunel, explores the Green New Deal and Degrowth
Regenerative economics for a sustainable world
Explores the creation of a circular economy in London
Exploration of how Finnish society is adapting to the transition to a circular economy
An exploration of Costa Rica’s eco-credentials
Art
Olafur Eliasson is asked ‘what is the role of artists in the climate crisis?’
Textiles piece to show solidarity with refugees and displaced people across the world
Poems that explore technological breakdown and the threats to nature
Ecologist explores a mythological response to ash-die back
Merging science with crotchet at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Shedding new light on one of the great English eco-poems: John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’
Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Walt Whitman’s birth
Performance piece to communicate an ecological story
Paintings that honour our ancient trees and woodlands
Music to strike a chord with people and raise awareness of the ecological crisis
Media and Communications
Explores how to effectively communicate the climate crisis
Environmental Studies and Sustainability
Research Associate in Energy Policy outlines thirteen steps to a just transport system
Physicist, Fritjof Capra, on how atomic physics forced scientists to think differently about Nature
A Blueprint for Survival was an influential environmentalist text that drew attention to the urgency and magnitude of environmental problems. Written by the founder of The Ecologist, Edward Goldsmith and Robert Allen argued for a radically restructured society in order to prevent what the authors referred to as “the breakdown of society and the irreversible disruption of the life-support systems on this planet”.
First published as a special edition of The Ecologist in January 1972, it was later published in book form and went on to sell over 750,000 copies. The Green party was formed by writers at The Ecologist inspired by the Blueprint for Survival.
The Blueprint was signed by over thirty of the leading scientists of the day—including Sir Julian, Huxley, Sir Frank Fraser Darling, Sir Peter Medawar, E.J. Mishan and Sir Peter Scott.
Ecology
Philosophy
The ecological crisis has its roots in Platonic philosophy
Physicist and system theorist explores deep ecology, science, spirituality and religion
Health
Associate professor of health in the build environment on health benefits of urban tranquillity
History
How examining the Age of Discovery can inform our environmental thinking today
Psychology
Exploration of the polyvagal theory in therapy