From John Clare country to ancient fenland, Ed Miliband’s solar farm approvals risk industrialising precious rural spaces — we must find greener solutions that don’t sacrifice our countryside’s beauty, writes DAVE BANGS

Decades of right to buy have eroded the social balance of our countryside — and now holiday lets and second home owners from the cities are compounding the crisis, writes DAVE BANGS

Spring has sprung in all its glory — but DAVE BANGS is disturbed by the absence of a crucial sound

These twin Sussex co-ops selling their produce directly to locals offers a glimpse of a future of sustainable, democratised food production – all in harmony with nature, says DAVE BANGS

Winter is the prime season for field walking. DAVE BANGS hunkers down to see what can be found out on the Downs

DAVE BANGS rails against the idea that Palestine was a barren desert before the Nakba, all the damage done to nature in the barrage of Israeli violence since — and the sordid use of 'conservation' to mask ethnic cleansing

DAVE BANGS mourns the pollution-driven demise of the magnificent and mighty sea trout

DAVE BANGS sees all socialist notions long gone from farming communities overridden by mega farms and agricultural monopolies

DAVE BANGS takes a walk down a Wealden brook…

DAVE BANGS explains the unintended positive consequences of off-limits military training grounds

Looking at the new hit book The Trespasser’s Companion, longstanding author and conservationist campaigner DAVE BANGS argues the burgeoning movement must include new codes of guardianship to protect the nature we love