Emma Latham Phillips

Freelance Writer, Content Creator and Strategist

United Kingdom

I create content, tell stories and build resources for clients and publications on Earth regeneration, nature reconnection and slow travel. My work aims to inspire us to rebuild our relationship with Earth.

Want to connect? Email me at [email protected]

Twitter Icon Instagram Icon
Portfolio
Earthrise Studio x Allbirds
2022
Allrise

What role can storytelling play in the climate movement? And how can we use our imaginations to shape a better world? Earthrise Studio commissioned me to tackle these questions and more in a limited edition newspaper made in partnership Allbirds. Storytelling is a powerful tool that can help us reframe our relationship with Mother Nature. In Allrise, I share the stories of how Allbirds Allgood Collective members are harnessing creativity, imagination and storytelling for good.

SUITCASE, The Flavour Issue
2022
Nature's Table

The Travel Project and I visited four UK outdoor dining experiences that bring guests directly to where their ingredients are grown, reared, hunted, fished and foraged. We’ve come to know food as what lines the supermarket shelves, but what we eat is inextricably tied to the land. When you can no longer see that link, you lose sight of how our landscapes are being used to produce the food we love. These four UK ventures are repairing this broken bond, reconnecting people to nature and each...

Sugiproject
2022
What is biodiversity - SUGi

Biodiversity is the term given to describe the amazing array of different lifeforms that you can find on Earth or in a given place or habitat at a moment in time, from animals to plants, fungi to other microorganisms. You need biodiversity or 'the biological variation of life' for an ecosystem to flourish because it's precisely this mix of species in a particular environment that creates an ecosystem in the first place.

Sugiproject
2022
Urban Forests can Help Cities Adapt to the Impacts of Climate Change - SUGi

As extreme weather events become more frequent, the effect of the climate crisis on our cities is becoming increasingly clear - our urban spaces have not been designed to cope. Green space is being lost to buildings, pavements and patios, and these impermeable surfaces are worsening the impact of heavy rainfall and heatwaves.

Lodestars Anthology, The Spain Issue
2022
A Play Unfolding

For Lodestars Anthology, I joined a team of carefree “cowboys” on a three-day riding experience through Andalucia’s Sierra Norte de Sevilla. The days felt as if they were ripped from a book. We traversed the trails that tied together the National Park, winding between olive and almond groves. As we rode through the hills, lunches would appear in the landscape as if a curtain had been pulled back, and we spent the night at Taramona, a part-ruined farmhouse aglow with candlelight. I was...

Thames and Hudson
2022
Running Wild

Like The Wind Magazine commissioned me to write a chapter on the trails that crisscross the Sierra Norte mountains in Oaxaca for their book Running Wild. Running Wild is published by Thames and Hudson and contains a collection of 16 of the world’s most scenic running trails. A different runner-come-writer brings each route to life, showcasing how running is not simply about journeying through a beautiful landscape but about connecting with a place.

Sugiproject
2021
Forests are social - SUGi

"The forest is a highly connected place, where the vitality of trees depends on the strength and attunement of their physical relationship with other trees and creatures," writes Professor Suzanne Simard. Over recent decades, modern science has caught up with indigenous intelligence to discover that plants aren't distinct entities, as previously believed, but part of interconnected and intelligent communities.

Sugiproject
2021
Children need nature to thrive - SUGi

Planting forests in schools can improve the mental and physical wellbeing of students. SUGi partners with schools across the globe to plant pocket forests closer to the classroom, bringing biodiversity back to playgrounds and nature back into school curriculums from Scotland to Australia. There is mounting evidence that children need a relationship with nature to thrive.

More or Less, Issue 5
2021
Playing Dirty

For More or Less Issue 5, the photographer Sophie Green and I dive headfirst into a miraculous substance the West constantly undervalues – mud. Our story pushes back against the idea that you can only find treatments in doctor’s offices and on massage tables. “Therapy” is an exploration of the restorative power of nature, in nature. Peloid treatments can be traced back to the days of Cleopatra. Today, you can find mud-seeking pilgrims wallowing in the visceral volcanic baths of South...

The Lissome, Rewilding Issue
2021
Reclaiming The Sacred

For The Lissome, I went on a meandering journey into modern-day witchcraft and herbalism. Most people have forgotten that the origins of modern medicine lie in plants. But plants, medicine and spirituality have always been intertwined. In ancient cultures, medicine and religion were so closely interrelated that it was impossible to disentangle them. Considering how much plants do for us, treating them with reverence and ritual makes sense.