Issue 257 • November/December 2009

Welcome

Flower Power • Satish Kumar

Resilient flowers need resilient fields and forests to flourish.

Frontline

Keeping Oil in the Ground • Peter Bunyard

The Yasuni Initiative is setting a precedent for rainforest nations to protect their capital.

Client Earth • James Thornton

The power of law can create justice for the planet.

Positive Media • Imogen Ororke

Green social networking communities are behind a rise in positive media online.

Big Bang Lab • Sergio López Figueroa

Delhi City Symphony has helped change the lives of people with limited prospects.

Vancouver - The Greenest City in the World? • Allan Badiner

The virtues of a city that is embracing the seismic shift towards a green economy.

Keynotes

Resilience Thinking • Rob Hopkins

Why 'resilience thinking' is a crucial missing piece of the climate-change jigsaw.

Can We Cope? • Sir Crispin Tickell

Can we overcome 'conceptual sclerosis' and address the multiplicity of issues related to climate change?

The Three 'Rs' • Jonathon Porritt

Three fundamental principles should underpin any approach to food security: resilience, resolarisation and relocalisation.

Quotes

Trees • Joyce Kilmer

I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.

The Simple Life • Lao Tzu

Let people measure life by the meaning of death.

Biocultural Diversity

Amazon Imperative • Peter Bunyard

For our own survival we must implement global protection of tropical rainforests.

Time for Action • Tony Juniper

The kind of leadership that was shown in bailing-out the banks should be demonstrated to protect tropical rainforests.

Trees are the Answer • Satish Kumar

Let us continue the work started by Wangari Maathai and reforest the entire world, creating right livelihood for all.

Climate Justice • Vandana Shiva

The polluters continue to pollute with impunity, whilst people thousands of miles away bear the brunt of their actions.

Undercurrents

Climate-friendly Farming • Mukti Mitchell

Rich-soil farming could help us turn back the carbon clock.

Positive Tipping Point • Hazel Henderson

The Copenhagen climate conference could be the positive tipping point for global eco-awareness.

Changing Direction • Kate Rawles

Climate Change is a symptom of economic and political systems committed to exponential growth on a planet with biophysical limits.

A Learning Society • Kate Davies

The next step in human evolution depends on our ability to live sustainably on the Earth.

The Power of Trust • Rachel Flemming

An interview with Fiona Reynolds, Director General of the National Trust.

The Arts

Art for Earth's Sake • Satish Kumar

We need a paradigm shift from 'ego-art' to 'eco-art'.

Banksy • Andy Christian

Has the commodification of Banksy's art taken the edge off his work?

Homemade • Ros Badger & Elspeth Thompson

The makings of a Christmas wreath.

Regulars

Poetry - The Hope of Renewal • Peter Abbs

The epic power of Nature and the poignancy of love: the poetry of Robyn Bolam.

Gardening - Lonesome Pines • Brigitte Norland

Native pine trees are a resilient species that can adapt to most circumstances.

Nature Writers - Clattinger • John Moat

The intimate writing of Peter Please, whose meditations on an "ordinary" place extend our knowledge of the living world.

Sensible Solutions - Natural Frugality • Oliver Tickell

The practice of natural frugality creates a quiet but abiding satisfaction all of its own.

Pioneers - Green Compassion • Amanda Pissani

Marc Barasch, founder of Green World Campaign, is pioneering simple and direct ways to reforest the earth.

Letters to the Editors - Eco Blind Spot?

Members' Page - Resurgence Reader's Profile • Ian Tennant

Taking small actions can make a big difference.

Reviews

What on Earth Evolved? • Christopher Lloyd

One hundred species that changed the world.

Ancient Light • Sean Borodale

A Sleepwalk on the Severn.

Song at the Hazardous Edge • Jeremy Hooker

Voyaging Out.

Meaningful Work • Jordi Pigem

A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do.

Jewels of Evolution • Lorna Howarth

Consider the Birds: Who They Are and What They Do.

Wrung from the Dark • Natasha Rivett-Carnac

Wild: An Elemental Journey.

Web Exclusives

Review - A Better Life for All • Sue Buckingham

Low Impact Development: The Future in Our Hands.

Review - Moral Analysis • Jack Santa Barbara

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.

Review - The Illogical Religion of Economics • Jane MacNamee

On the Edge of the Forest.

Review - Books In Brief • Jo Oland

Keeping Something Alive.