Issue 198 • January/February 2000

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Readings

A TALE ABOUT SOUP • Annie Dillard

He saw the soil, rivers and ocean in the soup.

Feature Articles

NATURAL CAPITALISM • Amory Lovins

Markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

IN DISTRUST OF MOVEMENTS • Wendell Berry

The author refuses to join single issue movements.

MAORI RENAISSANCE • John Broomfield

In New Zealand, Maori people are regaining their long-lost rights.

Cities & Suburbs

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS • Nick Robins

Suburbs present an opportunity to mix the best of town and country.

SUSTAINABLE SETTLEMENTS • Colin Ward

The suburb is the characteristic settlement pattern of the twentieth century.

PHOTO ESSAY • Andrew Simms

LETTER FROM AMERICA • Jay Walljasper

PIONEER PROJECTS • David Boyle

Six suburbs point to sustainability.

STOPPING SPRAWL • Donella Meadows

We need better, not bigger, cities.

Education

COMPOST OR COMPUTERS? • Peter Quince

Gardening should be as important in education as English, Maths and Science

The Arts

THE PRESENCE OF SPIRITS • Thomas Moore

The art and spiritual practice of Joan Hanley are closely connected.

EARTH SONGS AND SOUNDS • William Thomas

Sika's didgeridoos and Caitlin's voice create a longing for the land.

MATTER OF LOVE • Irene Bow

The sculptures of Jilly Sutton.

Timeless Wisdom

SOUL AND NATURE • Meredith Sabini

C. G. Jung believed that nature nourishes the soul.

Frontline

A TALE OF TWO APPLES • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

The choice is between artificial and organic.

RESTORING A FOREST • Paul Kendall

Trees for Life is regenerating the Caledonian Forest.

BOOK SENSE • Elaine Haney Sopchak

Independent bookstores for independent minds.

CAMPING ON A SUMMER'S DAY • Walter Schwartz & Dorothy Schwartz

Resurgence Readers' Summer Camp was charming and challenging.

Regulars

Touchstone • Colin Hodgetts

Poetry • Jorge Luis Borges

Letter from Key West • Rosalind Brackenbury

Letters to the Editors

A Sense of Place • Stephanie Mills, Michael Viney & Sir Crispin Tickell

Recipes • Dana Spowers

Reviews

FLOWER POWER • Gail Vines

Britain's Rare Flowers

CONTEMPORARY CHOICES • Caspar Henderson

Earth First!, The Biosphere and Noosphere Reader and Bioregionalism

CAPITALIST REVOLUTION • John Elkington

Natural Capitalism and The Clock of the Long Now

CITY OF SHIVA • John Lane

Benares Seen from Within

MAGIC OF CONTRADICTIONS • Lindsay Clarke

The Circus at the End of the World

WISE STORIES • Robin Waterfield

Voices from the Heart

AGE OF ADDICTION • John J. Stuhr

Wild Hunger

FACING THE FUTURE • Jessie Marcham

Earth at a Crossroads

FACING THE FUTURE • Ed Ayres

God's Last Offer