Issue 199 • March/April 2000

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

A NEW SYNTHESIS • Richard Tarnas

We seem to be moving toward a more integral world-view.

ON ATONEMENT • Maurice Ash

Dualistic knowledge is inherently flawed.

EARTH FAMILY • Vandana Shiva

All and everything exist in an eternal relationship between species.

FREE NATURE • Bill Devall

Fifty per cent of the total land and water areas of the Earth should be designated wilderness areas.

GIVE PEACE A BANK • Scilla Elworthy

If peace is to be given a chance, it must be given a bank.

PUBLIC VALUES • Peter Melchett

Social and environmental issues are central to the world's economic health.

LET DARKNESS REIGN • Michael Shaw Bond

Light pollution is killing our nights.

I LOVE ROSES • Donella Meadows

There is no excuse for poisoning flowers.

LOCAL FOOD • Tracy Worcester

The production and distribution of food should be in the hands of local communities.

LOCAL TIME • Jay Griffiths

While Dome-Time dominates our minds, let us reflect on Cow-Time.

NATURE CONNECTS • Mae Anderson

New Dimensions presents a rounded view of deep ecology.

TRUSTING THE TRUST • Paul Kingsnorth

The National Trust needs to put environmental issues at the top of its agenda.

New Ideas

RESTORING THE EARTH • Alan Watson Featherstone

Let us invite the UN to declare the twenty-first century as the century of restoring the Earth.

The Arts

A WAY OF BEING • Jenny Balfour-Paul

The paintings of Jeanine de Waele.

WOOD ECONOMY • Peter Bunyard

Tino Rawnsley is a great bodger.

Frontline

NATURE SCHOOLS • Anna Adhémar

Nature is the greatest teacher in nursery schools in Scandinavia.

ART AND NATURE • Clive Adams

A new Centre is being established to integrate earth and imagination.

HUNGER IN AMERICA • Lois Robbins

A creative response to poverty

Regulars

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

The Occasional Didymus • John Moat

Good News For Gaia • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

A Sense of Place • Jamie Drummond & Geoff Mulgan

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

FILM - AGE OF MUSIC • Sandy Irvine

The Buena Vista Social Club

TECHNOLOGICAL PROGRESS • Mary Tasker

Techgnosis: Myth, Magic and Mysticism in the Age of Information

GREENING NEW LABOUR • Marcus Mander & Alex Evans

Environmental Modernisation

CRUDE FOOD • Marian Van Eyk McCain

* Reviews various books on Genetic Engineering

FOOD FACTS • Judy Jones

The New Foods Guide, The Meat Business: Devouring a Hungry Planet

ANIMAL POWERS • Jordi Pigem

Dogs that know when their Owners are Coming Home

PHOTOGRAPHIC VISION • John Lane

Brandt: The photography

A SEA ETHIC • Mark Tredinnick

A Jerk on One End

AMERICAN BOOK ROUNDUP • Kirkpatrick Sale

Inequity in the Global Village Ecotourism and Sustainable Development With Good Intentions

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT • Victoria Bawtree

In the Wake of the Affluent Society

DAMS OF DESTRUCTION • Giles Chitty

The Cost of Living