• Walking the Walk: Including Ethnic Minorities in Green Initiatives

    As the press has recently highlighted, walking is both an expression as well as a means to develop positive relationships with the outdoors. But is the ‘outdoors’ a flat realm within the Anthropocene? The inequalities of urban inhabitation are widely known and talked about. Since COVID-19 blurred the boundaries of the private and public while extending the…

  • A poetic reverie: reflections on a year spent getting closer to nature

    Lecturer, researcher, poet and outdoor enthusiast Victoria Ekpo looks back on the first year of FootstepsNW, the walking and activity group she founded for Black women and their friends in the north west. It was important that our group expanded to include others, like the environment does for us daily, and that this generosity be…