Author Profile: Lorna Howarth

Lorna Howarth is Development Director of Artists Project Earth, a UK charity dedicated to creating a better world through music and the arts: www.apeuk.org. She is also Contributing Writer & Editor for Resurgence magazine.

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Love Local Food • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

New outlet for affordable, local and sustainable food

Growing Power • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Urban farming changing lives

Solar Sculpture • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Renewable energy in Mexico City

Floating Communities • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Creating schools and housing that can withstand monsoon floods

Marine Protection • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Implementing policies to preserve oceans and coastal areas

Wildlife Direct • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Protecting biodiversity in Africa

Electric Superbus • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Investing in new modes of transport

The Garden of Hope • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Finding beauty in communal green spaces

From Deserts to Rice Paddies • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Probiotics for plants

Wonderbags • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Zero-carbon cooking

The People's Supermarket • Lorna Howarth

Issue 272 • May/June 2012 • Catalysts For Change > Frontline

Community-supported shopkeeping

Making Ecocide the Fifth Crime Against Peace • Lorna Howarth

Issue 270 • January/February 2012 • A New Moral Compass > Frontline

Polluters are put on trial to protect the Earth's right to life

Ancient Teachers • Lorna Howarth

Issue 270 • January/February 2012 • A New Moral Compass > Reviews

The Global Forest: 40 Ways Trees Can Save Us

Environmental Exposé • Lorna Howarth

Issue 269 • November/December 2011 • Wellbeing > Frontline

Eliminating loopholes in international climate-change policy

The Sky's The Limit • Lorna Howarth

Issue 269 • November/December 2011 • Wellbeing > Frontline

Plans for the first solar-powered town

Wood Fuels Ashden Award • Lorna Howarth

Issue 269 • November/December 2011 • Wellbeing > Frontline

Climate-friendly energy for UK homes

Web of Trust • Lorna Howarth

Issue 269 • November/December 2011 • Wellbeing > Frontline

An innovative online funding platform that values input from donors

Spy in the Sky • Lorna Howarth

Issue 269 • November/December 2011 • Wellbeing > Frontline

Satellite technology uncovers illegal deforestation

Greed for Gas • Lorna Howarth

Issue 268 • September/October 2011 • What Comes Next? > Frontline

Climate-change activists issue an urgent call for a moratorium on shale-gas extraction in the UK

Grief for our Lost Species • Lorna Howarth

Issue 268 • September/October 2011 • What Comes Next? > Frontline

Paying tribute to the myriad extinct species

To Buy or Not To Buy? • Lorna Howarth

Issue 268 • September/October 2011 • What Comes Next? > Frontline

Can supermarkets ever be good for the environment?

Green and Away • Lorna Howarth

Issue 267 • July/August 2011 • Once Upon A Time > Frontline

Outdoor life encourages people to think differently

Finding Salvation • Lorna Howarth

Issue 267 • July/August 2011 • Once Upon A Time > Reviews

The Water Theatre

Whose Land is it Anyway? • Lorna Howarth

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Frontline

Environmentalist Lester Brown warns of a new age of hunger

Home Farm Project • Lorna Howarth

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Frontline

An alternative future for African agriculture

The Tree of Life Forest • Lorna Howarth

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Frontline

Germinating hope in Haiti

Love Where You Live • Lorna Howarth

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Frontline

Litter is a matter of bad design

Rethinking the Age of Stupid • Lorna Howarth

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Frontline

Cinema for social change

It's Cool To Be Kind • Lorna Howarth

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Frontline

Creating a chain reaction of generosity

Article - Plastic Islands • Lorna Howarth

Issue 266 • May/June 2011 • Tagore - The Big Vision > Web Exclusives > Article

Cleaning up the seas by creating artificial landmasses

The Plastic Beach • Lorna Howarth

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Frontline

It is necessary to rethink the 'story of packaging'

Rice Power • Lorna Howarth

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Frontline

Waste not, want not

Green Cuisine • Lorna Howarth

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Frontline

Mumbai's first veg box scheme

Rainforest Sequestration • Lorna Howarth

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Frontline

Building an element of climate protection into electricity provision

Tribal Tribulations • Lorna Howarth

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Frontline

Indigenous rights prevail over corporate greed

Postcards From The Future • Lorna Howarth

Issue 264 • January/February 2011 • Leadership > Frontline

Climate change - coming to a town near you

Leaving Oil in the Ground • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Frontline

New instruments of cooperation protect planetary ecosystems

Powered by Waste • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Frontline

Creating energy from human excrement

Go Car Share • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Frontline

Social networking takes on a useful new dimension

Produce Your Own Power • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Frontline

Small-scale anaerobic digesters become a reality

The London Orchard Project • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Frontline

Reconnecting urban communities to the joy of growing

Fashion Footprints • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Frontline

Towards a sustainable clothing industry

Article - Micro-hydro in the Lakes • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Web Exclusives > Article

Green energy from a Cumbrian stream

Article - Up A Gum Tree • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Web Exclusives > Article

Tasmanian timber company ends old growth logging

Article - School Battery Boxes • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Web Exclusives > Article

Recycling initiative for local schools

Article - School Flower Flutter Programme • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Web Exclusives > Article

Biodiversity and ecological education in schools

Article - Peru Protects Endangered Birds • Lorna Howarth

Issue 263 • November/December 2010 • Apostles of Beauty > Web Exclusives > Article

Community-owned conservation areas granted approval

Ecocide in Paradise • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Frontline

Indigenous landowners are stripped of traditional land rights.

Profit Before Planet • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Frontline

Exposing the reality of 'Beyond Petroleum'.

The World's Most Polluted Places • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Frontline

Cleaning up toxic waste.

Trees for Global Benefit • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Frontline

How carbon finance can work for the poor.

Groundbreaking Allotments • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Frontline

Bridging the gap between demand and supply of horticultural land.

Boreal Bargaining • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Frontline

Debate rages over the world's largest forest 'conservation' agreement.

Article - New Heights for Online Campaigning • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Web Exclusives > Article

You could be one click away from changing the world.

Article - Bullfighting Ban • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Web Exclusives > Article

Animal rights protestors applaud new law.

Article - Saving Cambodia's Forests • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Web Exclusives > Article

Traditional design and latest technology combine to create enegy-saving stove.

Article - A State of Wellbeing • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Web Exclusives > Article

Ryan's Well Foundation.

Article - Cleanse Oil Stains from the Arts • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Web Exclusives > Article

Freeing the arts from the taint of black gold.

Article - Painting A New Picture • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Web Exclusives > Article

Recycling paint benefits the environment.

Article - Lighter Later Update • Lorna Howarth

Issue 262 • September/October 2010 • Embodied Wisdom > Web Exclusives > Article

MP backs parliamentary bill for lighter evenings.

Ocean Waste • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Frontline

A 60 ft catamaran made from recycled bottles is raising awareness of marine pollution.

Become a Robin Hoodie • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Frontline

Taxing the banks to tackle poverty.

A GM Hot Potato • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Frontline

Disregarding the precautionary principle.

This Is Not a Rainforest • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Frontline

Challenging EU sustainability criteria.

Article - Rosewood Ban • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Web Exclusives > Article

Tackling the logging crisis in Madagascar.

Article - Lighter Later • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Web Exclusives > Article

Cutting Carbon by extending daylight hours.

Article - Power Wellies • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Web Exclusives > Article

Eco-friendly mobile phone charging technologies reach a new level.

Article - Ghost Forest • Lorna Howarth

Issue 261 • July/August 2010 • Sustaining Life > Web Exclusives > Article

Highlighting the depletion of the world's resources.

Trees for Life • Lorna Howarth

Issue 260 • May/June 2010 • On Being Human > Frontline

The Billion Tree campaign has now planted over eight billion trees.

101 Solutions to Climate Change • Lorna Howarth

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Frontline

How long could it take for the world to be powered entirely by renewable energy?

Language Barriers • Lorna Howarth

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Frontline

China's young people ask for more information on climate change.

Hopenhagen' • Lorna Howarth

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Frontline

Beyond the debates, protests and walk-outs, there was much to be inspired by at COP15.

Earth Day • Lorna Howarth

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Frontline

The Billion Acts of Green campaign is a chance to make a difference and be part of history in the making.

Victory for Indian Wildlife • Lorna Howarth

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Frontline

A tiger reserve and a key elephant migration corridor has been protected.

Earth Journalism • Lorna Howarth

Issue 259 • March/April 2010 • Seeds of Change: The Future of Food > Frontline

Honouring the world's best climate change reporting.

Actions Speak Louder than Words • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Frontline

Climate Change activists celebrate two major victories.

Low-Carbon Countries • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Frontline

Guyana's call to action for climate resilience and low-carbon development.

Care Farming • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Frontline

An innovative and cost-effective service with positive benefits for the entire community.

Fashion's New Model • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Frontline

The handloom and cotton field can be at the heart of rural regeneration.

Article - Reclaiming Love • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Web Exclusives > Article

Disconnecting beloved tradition from the grip of consumer culture.

Article - Holy Water • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Web Exclusives > Article

Addressing the many challenges to India's watercourses.

Article - Two Sides To The Story • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Web Exclusives > Article

Sending an email can be more dangerous to the environment than posting a letter.

Review - Guardians of the Countryside • Lorna Howarth

Issue 258 • January/February 2010 • Liberty > Web Exclusives > Review

Otter Moon

Jewels of Evolution • Lorna Howarth

Issue 257 • November/December 2009 • Resilience & Climate Change > Reviews

Consider the Birds: Who They Are and What They Do.

SCAP: Sustainable Clothing Action Plan • Lorna Howarth

Issue 254 • May/June 2009 • Elegant Simplicity > Keynotes

Defra launches a Sustainable Clothing Action Plan.

Members' Page - Summer Camp Connections • Lorna Howarth

Issue 254 • May/June 2009 • Elegant Simplicity > Regulars > Members' Page

A day without fossil fuels.

Members' Page - Spring Into Action! • Lorna Howarth

Issue 253 • March/April 2009 • Economics of Place > Regulars > Members' Page

Enjoy the seasonal pleasure of planting.

The Ecology of Circumstance • Lorna Howarth

Issue 253 • March/April 2009 • Economics of Place > Reviews

Beechcombings: The Narratives of Trees.

Rainforest Nations Lead the Way • Lorna Howarth

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Frontline

New commitments to stop rainforest loss and protect endangered species.

Creating Coral • Lorna Howarth

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Frontline

Using appropriate technology to restore damaged reefs.

The Big Picture - Icons of England • Lorna Howarth

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Regulars > The Big Picture

Campaign to protect rural England.

Way-Finding • Lorna Howarth

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Reviews

The Wild Places.

Article - Black is the New White • Lorna Howarth

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Web Exclusives > Article

A teenager’s invention to help save the planet.

Article - Growing Communities • Lorna Howarth

Issue 252 • January/February 2009 • Nature Crunch: Redesign, Rethink, Reimagine > Web Exclusives > Article

Julie Brown has created a local food project as vibrant and diverse as the community in which she lives.

Review - Recommended reading • Lorna Howarth

Issue 251 • November/December 2008 • Feasting & Fasting: Connecting the Plate and the Planet > Web Exclusives > Review

Back to our roots • Lorna Howarth

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 • Music for Transformation > Undercurrents

Nurturing the soil for future generations.

The man who mistook neurology for music • Lorna Howarth

Issue 249 • July/August 2008 • Music for Transformation > Reviews

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks.

Transforming Tourism • Lorna Howarth & Sophie Poklewski Koziell

Issue 248 • May/June 2008 • The Money Delusion: In Search of True Wealth > Undercurrents

Holidays need not cost the Earth.

Cycling Community • Lorna Howarth

Issue 247 • March/April 2008 • Long Live Biodiversity! > Reviews

Cycling to Work

Legacy of the Mahatma • Lorna Howarth

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 • Gandhi's Gift: The Power Of Nonviolence > Welcome

Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi.

The Fifth Element • Lorna Howarth

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 • Gandhi's Gift: The Power Of Nonviolence > Reviews

Wildwood by Roger Deakin

Books in Brief • Lynn Batten, Lorna Howarth & Juliette Collins

Issue 246 • January/February 2008 • Gandhi's Gift: The Power Of Nonviolence > Reviews

(My) Dying is Fun by Christopher Day, World Changing (ed.) Alex Steffen, How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet? by Tony Juniper, Dharamsala Diaries by Swati Chopra, Green Up! By Will Anderson

Beauty and Imagination • Lorna Howarth

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 • The Moral Economy > Tribute to Anita Roddick

Issue 245 of Resurgence is dedicated to Anita Roddick, who died on 10th September 2007.

Pattern and Metaphor • Lorna Howarth

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 • The Moral Economy > The Arts

Seed, Peter Randall-Page's iconic sculpture at the Eden Project, embodies his interest in pattern, collaborative working and the juxtaposition between inner and outer form.

Under Stress • Lorna Howarth

Issue 245 • November/December 2007 • The Moral Economy > Reviews

The Upside of Down by Thomas Homer-Dixon

The Crochet Reef • Lorna Howarth

Issue 243 • July/August 2007 • The Point of Return > The Arts

Margaret and Christine Wetheim use the art of crochet to manifest hyperbolic space.

EMERGING AND CONVERGING! • Lorna Howarth

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 • There is no wealth but life > 40th Anniversary

Celebrating forty years of Resurgence.

BEYOND THE FAÇADE • Lorna Howarth

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 • There is no wealth but life > Reviews

Green Places to Stay (ed.) Richard Hammond

IN BRIEF • Lorna Howarth & June Mitchell

Issue 240 • January/February 2007 • There is no wealth but life > Reviews

We Need to Talk about the Funeral by Jane Morrell and Simon Smith, Organic Places to Stay in the UK by Linda Moss, Ecovillages by Jonathan Dawson, Living System by Bruce Nixon, An Inconvenient Truth (dir.) Davis Guggenheim

SACRED SKILLS • Lorna Howarth

Issue 239 • November/December 2006 • A Far Cry from Christmas > Frontline

The Biodiversity Lifeskills Foundation is encouraging temples and communities in Sri Lanka to work together to safeguard traditional knowledge and natural species.

BOOKS IN BRIEF • Lorna Howarth & Sophie Poklewski Koziell

Issue 239 • November/December 2006 • A Far Cry from Christmas > Reviews

Hard Rain by Mark Edwards and Lloyd Timberlake, Manifesto for the Earth by Mikhail Gorbachev, Peace is the Way by Deepak Chopra, What I Heard About Iraq by Eliot Weinberger, Why Birds Sing by David Rothenberg

SEEDS OF SUFFICIENCY • Lorna Howarth

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 • From Ownership to Relationship > Frontline

Introducing the Resurgence School of Organic Gardening and Cooking.

BOOKS IN BRIEF • Lorna Howarth

Issue 235 • March/April 2006 • From Ownership to Relationship > Reviews

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle, The Public Value of Science by James Wilsdon et al., A Good Life by Paul Peacock, The Bedside Book of Birds by Graeme Gibson, Allotment Gardening by Susan Berger

BOOKS IN BRIEF • Lorna Howarth & Sophie Poklewski Koziell

Issue 234 • January/February 2006 • Earth, Wealth and Wellbeing > Reviews

The Sustainability Revolution by Andres R. Edwards, The Distracted Centipede by Mina Semyon, Passionate Medicine (ed.) Robin Shohet, Crimes against Nature by Robert F. Kennedy Jr,, Writing the World (eds) David Rothenberg and Wandee J. Pryor