Highlights from the
November/December 2026 issue | | |
Before we even know who we are, we are held by relationships: with family, community, place, language, the more-than-human world. Belonging is a relationship — and relationships ask something of us. What does it mean to belong to a community? What do we owe the people among us? What happens when we recognise that we belong not only to other humans, but also to the winds, forests, oceans, animals, and the soil beneath our feet? And what happens when our relationship to place is broken, whether through displacement, extraction or the erasure of memory?
Belonging can be inherited, and it can be chosen — rooted in one place or stretched across many. It can bring comfort, but it also carries responsibility. And there is a difficult side too: the question of who is allowed to belong, who is excluded, and who gets to decide. In this issue, we explore some of these different dimensions of belonging.
| | After years of falling into the isolating depths of climate anxiety, Tim Broadhurst founded Climate Club, creating a space for a hopeful community sharing their grief and inspiring action. | | Finding our way back to nestedness | | Drawing on Indigenous wisdom and developmental science, Darcia Narvaez considers how we might recover a culture of kinship and belonging to the living world through the idea of the ‘evolved nest’. | | |
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Mya-Rose Craig reviews the Wainwright Prize Book of
the Year, The Book of Birds by Robert Macfarlane and
Jackie Morris, reflecting on a touching ode to the quiet resilience of birds.
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Funga – totems of unity
A trilogy of talks
Mondays 16, 23, 30 November • 7—8:30pm GMT• via Zoom
Recently given their own kin-dom alongside fauna and flora, funga have been mushrooming across human awareness lately.
This autumnal webinar trilogy with Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo, Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros, and another speaker to be confirmed, will explore the current terrain surrounding these totems of unity.
Join us as three leading fungal collaborators offer their perspectives on where we are — and where we might go — with our fungal kin. At this critical juncture for human and planetary health, can we fully surface their connective and regenerative abilities?
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Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo
Tasha Stevens-Vallecillo is the founder of Land, Food and Medicine, a collective cultivating a deeper, more sacred relationship with the Earth. Rooted in food and medicine sovereignty, and inspired by the mythical, subversive and symbiotic world of mycology, their work weaves together food and medicine growing, spiritual herbalism and Emerging Earth — a gathering exploring our capacity to heal ourselves, our communities and the Earth, with funded places for those too often pushed to the margins.
Exploring the mythic, mystical and radically non-binary nature of mushrooms, Tasha champions the power of local, native medicines and the profound interdependence between human and more-than-human life.
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Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros
Carlos Aguilar-Trigueros is a microbial ecologist leading a soil ecology research group at the University of Jyväskylä in Finland. His research explores the fascinating world of fungi and other microorganisms living in soils, and how
these largely invisible life forms shape the ecosystems
we depend on.
His team combines laboratory experiments, fieldwork, microscopy, image processing and data science, with the ultimate aim of understanding how the extraordinary diversity of life in soils helps keep ecosystems functioning
in a changing world.
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Samhain celebration: meditation, ancient wisdom, reflection and Nature connection
with Georgie Gilmore
Tuesday 27 October • 6.30—7.30pm GMT • via Zoom
As we journey deeper into the dark half of the year, let us nurture our relationship with Nature, ourselves and the dark. The people of old believed everything began in the dark: the babe in the dark of the womb, the seed in the dark of the Earth. So for them, Samhain, a time of growing darkness, marked the beginning of a new year.
As the leaves continue to fall from the trees, we will enter and embrace the liminal space between what was and what will be. True to the age-old traditions of Samhain, we will honour our lineages and ancestors, known and unknown, before turning to honour what will be by tending to the Earth for the ones yet to come.
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Monthly meditation for members
Tuesday 3 November • 8—8:30am GMT • via Zoom
Every month, members of The Resurgence Trust are invited to gather for a guided meditation. Begin your week peacefully with a meditation that will support you to live in deeper connection with Nature, with others and with yourself. This month’s meditation is led by Satish Kumar.
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Resurgence Talk: Jeremy Lent
‘An ecological civilisation – its principles and possibilities’
Wednesday 25 November • 7—8pm GMT • via Zoom
Authoritarianism is on the rise, inequality is pulling societies apart, and the natural systems we depend on are breaking down. These are the results of a civilisation based on exploitation, extraction and separation. What would it take to replace it with a society that set the conditions
for all beings to thrive on a regenerated Earth — an
ecological civilisation?
In this talk with Q&A, Jeremy Lent will explore the concept of an ecocivilisation: why we need it, its underlying principles, and a glimpse of what it might look like in practice. An ecocivilisation envisages a potential future of human flourishing, which would require a transformation of our current world system, leading to a society based on different values, goals and collective behaviour.
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The November/December 2026 issue of
Resurgence & Ecologist
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We hope you enjoy these featured articles from Resurgence & Ecologist and will want to explore more of the content
from the November/December 2026 issue.
With all good wishes,
The Resurgence Trust
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With thanks to all the artists and illustrators
November/December 2026 cover image:
artwork by Sarah Jarrett
A place to pause: artwork by Camilla Taylor
Finding our way back to nestedness:
artwork by Eloise Renouf
Our bird's-eye view: artwork by Jackie Morris
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