Issue 205 • March/April 2001

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Food

THE REAL COSTS OF MODERN FARMING • Jules Pretty

Chemical agriculture costs the Earth.

A DECENT DIET • Colin Spencer

Big corporations have debased food into commodities and balance-sheets.

STOLEN HARVEST • Vandana Shiva

In Indian culture seeds are sacred. Multinational corporations are stealing seeds from the poor.

FRUITS OF THE EARTH • Sarah Brown

Plant-based diets hold the key to human health and the health of the planet.

ORGANIC BANDWAGON • George Monbiot

As organic food is hijacked by corporate power, being "organic" is not enough.

CHOICE FOR CHILDREN • Prue Leith

Let all schools teach children how to cook and enjoy good food.

Philosophy

LIBERATION ECOLOGY • Peter Marshall

There is a growing movement which celebrates the local, the small, the wild and the free.

Economics

ECO-VILLAGES • Walter Schwartz

Hope, hard work and adaptability are the greatest assets.

TYRANNY OF NUMBERS • David Boyle

We need calculator-free zones.

MANAGING MONEY • Aidan Bridgeland Stephens

A young man, aged eight, finds out about financial systems.

Memoirs

MEETING THE MAHATMA • Abhay Bang

Story of self realisation.

The Arts

IMAGES FOR THE SOUL • John Lane

Robin Baring is an artist of mystical vision.

DRAMA OF NATURE • Donna Gold

The paintings of Alan Bray reveal the drama of struggles between stone and water, trees and granite.

GARDEN OF LOVE • Tom Trevor

James Ursell built a giant wicker bowl of coppiced branches.

Frontline

COMMUNITY HARVEST • Adam Rock

HOLISTIC HEALTH • Lorna Howarth

STANDING THEIR GROUND • Daniel Carter

Regulars

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

Letter from America • Jay Walljasper

Poetry • Anne Williams & Judith Galloway

Letter from Key West • Rosalind Brackenbury

A Sense of Place • John Griffin & Angela Malyon-Bein

Recipes • Dana Spowers

Reviews

TRUE BARGAINS • Marian Van Eyk McCain

Bringing the Food Economy Home

A CELTIC BARD • Jules Cashford

Lindsay Clarke's Traditional Celtic Stories

SCIENCE AS SUPERSTITION • Brian Goodwin

Life is a Miracle

NOMADIC SOUL • Oliver Lowenstein

Wandering God

Welcome BACK, MR. KEYNES • Nick Robins

Localization: a Global Manifesto

PROPOSALS FOR CHANGE • Ed Iglehart

You Can't Eat GNP

PEASANTS OF FRANCE • Victoria Bawtree

The World is Not for Sale

NOTION OF NOTHING • Rupert Wegerif

The Nothing That Is

A CRITIQUE OF COMPUTERS • Peter Quince

High Tech Heretic and Let Them Eat Data