Issue 195 • July/August 1999

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Australia

SPELL OF THE LAND • Satish Kumar & June Mitchell

Diary of a journey to Brisbane, Sydney and Tasmania.

IMAGES OF DREAMING • Victoria King

Aboriginal people consider themselves to be artists.

ART THAT CONNECTS • Matthew Sturgis

Aboriginal art carries the viewer into the heart of a landscape.

MORE PRECIOUS THAN GOLD • John Cameron

A quest for minerals led to betrayal of a mountain country.

Feature Articles

EARTH CHARTER

To secure the well-being of all life.

THE MONSANTO MACHINE • Jennifer Kahn

Monsanto is sowing the seeds of destruction.

CREATIVE UNIVERSE • Thomas Berry & Thomas Rain Crowe

We need to respond to the universe imaginatively.

RETURN OF THE SUBLIME • David Rothenberg

Seeing the sublime in a small mountain

TWO WOMEN OF THE SOIL • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

A tribute to Lady Eve Balfour and Rachel Carson.

WILD IS BEAUTIFUL • Jay Griffiths

St. Kilda is under threat.

UNBOXING OURSELVES • Matt Maxwell

We spend our days in one enclosure or another.

A TALE OF TWO LUNCHES • Judy Gahagan

In Italy, food feeds the body and social relationships.

Technology

BLESSING OR BURDEN? • Neil Postman

Six searching questions.

New Ideas

MEDIA AND THE MESSAGE • Duncan Smith

The "page 3" of every newspaper should be the place for fair debate

Interview

GOD AND EVOLUTION • Thor Heyerdahl & Fred Matser

Nature itself is the greatest miracle.

Frontline

GREENING OF PORTLAND • Jay Walljasper

A city where you can walk to shops, cafés and parks.

Regulars

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

Good News For Gaia • Lorna Howarth

Poetry • Rainer Maria Rilke

Business Diary • Sheila Moorcroft

Recipes • Dana Spowers

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

ARROGANT TECHNOLOGY • Jonathon Porritt

The Biotech Century

TRAVERSING THE GLOBE • Boyd Tonkin

About This Life

CULTURAL REVOLUTIONS • John Elkington

The Penguin Book of Twentieth Century Protest, The Sixties, Liberating the Corporate Soul, The Ownership Solution, Open Minds

A GLASS HALF EMPTY • Kathleen Raine

Ka. Studies of the Mind and the Gods of India

WHAT'S IN A NOVEL? • Lindsay Clarke

Lawrence Durrell: A Biography

BEING ENGLISH • David Boyle

The English: A Portrait, The Life of Thomas More

UTOPIANS • Judy Jones

Living Lightly

FARMING • Philip Conford

Alternative Agriculture

WEST MEETS EAST • Kurt Hoffman

Beyond the Darkness

RADICAL RELIGION • Christopher Titmuss

The Compassionate Revolution

WILD VALLEY • Terry Gifford

Fiber

ECOLOGY OF LOVE • Walter Schwartz

Riding the Wind