Issue 193 • March/April 1999

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

DEATH BY DETERRENCE • General Lee Butler

Deterrence is a dialogue of the blind with the deaf.

HOW HUMANS DISCOVERED THE WILD • David Nicholson-Lord

For many people David Attenborough is the public face of natural history.

HUMAN NUMBERS • John Gray

Reducing consumption and human numbers is a priority.

THE BIG PICTURE • Lee-Anne Broadhead

We've had twenty-five years of environmental agreements and the world is getting worse.

WHO WILL FEED THE WORLD • Sarah Sexton

First chemical fertilizers, then the Green Revolution, and now genetic engineering promises to feed the world.

SUSTAINABLE CONSUMPTION • Charlie Pye-Smith

Sustainable consumption is a poverty issue, an efficiency issue and a moral issue.

OBSOLESCENCE • David Ehrenfeld

The word "obsolete" comes much too easily to our tongues.

ECOLOGY OF MONEY • David Korten

Contrary to its claims, capitalism is the mortal enemy of democracy and the market.

OR A PRIVATE LANGUAGE • Maurice Ash

Language is social. Its meanings are never fixed. It can never be reduced to tables, formulas or slogans.

BASIC NEEDS • Jeremy Seabrook

Basic needs are for the poor. No one ever thinks of offering such a formula to the rich.

ART IN NATURE • June Ashburner & Kenneth Ashburner

In the foothills of Dartmoor, art, science and nature meet.

ARTIST OF THE INTERIOR • Hazel Leslie

The art of Evelyn Williams reveals the deepest human feelings.

A WOMAN OF TREES • Stuart Franklin

Julia Hill has been living up a tree for the past twelve months.

CONQUERING CORRUPTION • Bunker Roy

In rural Rajasthan ordinary people forced village officials to surrender money obtained by corrupt means.

SCIENCE OF WHOLENESS • Brian Goodwin

The study of science requires an understanding of quality as well as quantity.

SHOP LOCALLY • Roy Evans

The Happy Pear Project in the village of Hartland is an initiative in rural economy.

HOUSE OF STRAW • Peter Lang

Near the City of Gloucester, Jim Wallis has built a house which is beautiful, sustainable and inexpensive.

Regulars

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle • David Nicholson-Lord

Letter from America • Jay Walljasper

Business Diary • Sheila Moorcroft

Good News For Gaia • Lorna Howarth

Poetry • Czeslaw Milosz

Letters to the Editors • Paul Kingsnorth

Field Days - an anthology of Poetry

Reviews

FAIR FIELDS

EARTH POEMS • Alastair McIntosh

Scottish Ground

CHRISTIAN MEDITATION • Ronald Lello

The Inner Christ

TIME MEASURED • Jay Griffiths

The Calendar

PSYCHOLOGY BEYOND SELF • Maura Sills

The Resonance of Emptiness

A SPIRITUAL WARRIOR • John Lane

Loyalty Demands Dissent

A GENEROUS GARDENER • Brigitte Norland

City Fields, Country Gardens - Allotment Essays

PLANETARY RHYTHMS • Alan Brockman

Planting by the Moon, a Gardener's Calendar 1999