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Natalie Bennett

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Natalie has been the editor of the Guardian Weekly newspaper, a volunteer
with the Thai National Commission on Women’s Affairs, and a (not very
good) rugby player, football goalie and cricket wicketkeeper. She has lived
on three continents, taken degrees in agricultural science, history and politics,
and social science, and gone from being the child of an apprentice carpenter
in Australia to membership of the UK House of Lords (since 2019).
She joined the Green Party of England and Wales on January 1, 2006,
with the resolution to “do something” about the state of the world, but would
never have predicted where it would lead her.
A feminist from age five, when she was told because she was a girl, she
was not allowed to have a bicycle, Natalie became
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On the New Books Network with Miranda Melcher

Really excited to speak with host extraordinaire Miranda Melcher on the New Books Network about my book Green Thinking .
Great questions and framing from Miranda helped me think about the book in new ways, which is what all the best interviewers do.
Particularly fitting given the Network's podcasts are a major source for the book.
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On the New Books Network with Miranda Melcher

Really excited to speak with host extraordinaire Miranda Melcher on the New Books Network about my book
Green Thinking
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Change Everything by Natalie  Bennett
"You need to know where you're going, even if at first the path from here to there doesn't seem obvious. That was the premise on which I bought this book, at least.

So imagine my delight when I found in its pages not only a description of a fairer, hea" Read more of this review »
Change Everything by Natalie  Bennett
"This is a great time, just before a General Election, to read this book by Natalie Bennett, a former leader of the Green Party. She gives a wide-ranging and very accessible guide to the aspirations and vision of the Greens, and I found myself agreein" Read more of this review »
Change Everything by Natalie  Bennett
"I wanted to learn more about the Green Party and their policies, but also how people in the party can go about changing the world for the better, and that are the ideas which really excite and engage people. This was an informative and interesting re" Read more of this review »
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Peasants by Maryam Aslany
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Aslany has started what should be a huge turnaround in our understanding of Eurasian history, to acknowledge the sophistication, the wisdom and capacities of the class of people that formed its vast majority, but who rarely got to tell their own stor ...more
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Erased by Patricia Owens
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Having had extensive exposure over the past year to a range of the academic field broadly called International Relations (IR), it has been striking how traditionalist, how narrow, how limited its understanding, and practitioners, largely remain. Whic ...more
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Slow Down or Die by Timothée Parrique
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This short, very readable text demolishes the idea of "green growth", slaps down the concept that GDP is in any way an appropriate measure of national progress, and explains why the circular economy is a necessary but far from sufficient foundation f ...more
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“The energy, time and talents of billions of humans, working with respect for and in co-operation with all of the living creatures on this planet and the immensely complex ecosystems on which they and we depend, can be a truly caring, humane, just world. We do not have to repeat the 1930s and 1940s. It is our choice to seize the democratic power to stop it happening, to turn away from that far-right leader shouting crude insults at anyone they determine an enemy of 'the people'. We can jointly choose a positive direction, rethink the ways our societies operate, restore that which has been frayed and worn down, rebuild anew a sustainable, caring, joyful way of living.”
― Natalie Bennett, Change Everything

“Whatever we make, or invent, or build, is with us forever; we cannot throw it away. The methan and carbon diocide we put into the atmosphere will have effects, just like the nitrogen and phospate we flush into our rivers. They will end up impacting on human and more-than-human bodies, and lives. So the first question is 'should we be doing this?' That must replace the standard 20th-century question: 'can we make a profit from doing this?”
― Natalie Bennett, Green Thinking

“The energy, time and talents of billions of humans, working with respect for and in co-operation with all of the living creatures on this planet and the immensely complex ecosystems on which they and we depend, can be a truly caring, humane, just world. We do not have to repeat the 1930s and 1940s. It is our choice to seize the democratic power to stop it happening, to turn away from that far-right leader shouting crude insults at anyone they determine an enemy of 'the people'. We can jointly choose a positive direction, rethink the ways our societies operate, restore that which has been frayed and worn down, rebuild anew a sustainable, caring, joyful way of living.”
― Natalie Bennett, Change Everything

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