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COVER FEATURE Everything is Goulding

Ellie Goulding first spoke out about the climate crisis when few other chart-topping artists would. How did Britain’s pop princess move from ‘apocalypse fatigue’ to climate optimist?

52 The burger chain that panicked about the planet Is regeneratively farmed beef really more sustainable?

• The good bookshop boom Celebrating the new generation of purpose-driven bookshops

62 Seaweed solutions

• Why are people so hyped about kelp?

Life here provides an answer to a lot of the crises of modernity, be it loneliness, housing or climate change

58 The great solar surge

How the Sahara desert will be powering British homes in the near future

Let’s live 44 together

Interest in communal living is booming – is it really the good life?

• 66 Lessons from Rwanda The genocide survivor rooting out hate speech in Britain

72 The shop where the currency is kindness A Cumbrian shop is pioneering a new type of retail