Issue 03 of our print magazine is available to buy now

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The Edit: A Balm for Solastalgia
The Edit

The Edit: A Balm for Solastalgia

Our weekly round up of the best articles, podcasts and videos focusing on purpose in life, work and the world.
26th Apr 2024

Soothing climate anxiety, how love imbues the world and more in this week’s #TheEdit.

  • More women work in nonprofits. Why do men end up leading them? “Glass escalator” refers to the finding that men in female-dominated occupations often experience a faster rise to the C-suite than women – Harvard Business Review
  • Solastalgia: Ada Limón has a balm for your climate anxiety. The US poet laureate on closing the gap between nature and the self – The New York Times
  • The happiness trinity. Why it’s so hard to answer the question “What makes us happiest?” – The Atlantic
  • The “epic row” over a new epoch. Scientists, journalists, and artists often say that we live in the Anthropocene, a new age in which humans shape the Earth, a term geologists reject – New Yorker
  • The enchanted vision. Love is much more than a mere emotion or moral ideal. It imbues the world itself and we should learn to move with its power – Aeon
  • Surrealism and sustainability at West Dean Gardens. The West Sussex landmark is steeped in artistic, royal and horticultural history – Financial Times
  • May contain lies. In a world of misinformation, how do we separate fact from fiction? London Business School professor Alex Edmans unpacks his strategy for uncovering the truth – The Beautiful Truth 

“If we don’t grieve, we numb. And if we don’t have joy and we don’t have hope, we give up.”

Ada Limón