Issue 207 • July/August 2001

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Economics

THE AGE OF ACCESS • Jeremy Rifkin

Can civilization survive with the commercial sphere as the primary mediator of human life?

VISIONARIES • Bernard Lietaer

Complementary currencies can lead us towards a more equitable future.

SOLAR SOLUTIONS • Hermann Scheer

Moving from a fossilized economy to a solar economy.

Business

CHANGE IS IN THE AIR • Jonathan Dimbleby

Sustainable development is not an option; it is the only option.

Science

PHILOSOPHER'S STONE • Peter Marshall

The wedding of alchemy and ecology.

Food

BREAD OF SORROW • Satish Kumar

The act of breadmaking connects us to our ecological roots.

Schumacher Lecture

DESIGN REVOLUTION • John Todd

We can all be designers using the natural world as our template.

Architecture

BEAUTY IS NOT A DIRTY WORD • Lord Richard Rogers

A building without beauty is not architecture; it is a construction.

The Arts

SENSUAL SIMPLICITY • Oliver Lowenstein

Andy Goldsworthy's work is entwined with the natural world.

THE ART OF GARDENS • Andrew Lawson

Gardeners are the painters and sculptors of the landscape.

WALKING AND CARVING • William Peers

Reaching the end is less important than the journey.

TREE OF LIFE • Jeremy Reed

Carole Berman's art is a triumph of poetic feeling.

ETERNITY NOW • Greg Tricker

Converging towards a doorway to freedom.

India Diary

THE TEMPLES OF DELIGHT • Satish Kumar & June Mitchell

The Jain temples at Mount Abu.

Education

PENALTIES OF SCALE • Mary Tasker

The small school movement in America.

Frontline

REACHING OUT

Swadhyaya devotees transform communities.

INCINERATOR DEFEATED

Producer responsibility taken to heart.

TB OR NOT TB?

Homoeopathy could be the answer.

ANCIENT RITUALS - NEW MEANING

A Jewish prayer group mourns for Gaia.

Regulars

The Occasional Didymus • John Moat

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Cutting Edge • George Monbiot

A Sense of Place • Jim Nollman

Poetry • Andrea Hollander Budy

Perspectives

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

SUFI WISDOM • Nick Pearson

The Illustrated Rumi

BUDDHIST DISCOURSE • Ian Prattis

The Path of Emancipation

CLIMATE NEGOTIATIONS • James Wells-Bruges

Contraction and Convergence

A VISION REVISITED • John Lane

William Blake: The Complete Illuminated Books/William Blake: Chambers of Imagination

SOUL LINES • Chris Hall

The Journey of Thomas the Rhymer

VOICE OF A TREE • Eileen Campbell

The Story of Yew

A LITTLE GOES A LONG WAY • Richard Douthwaite

The Little Earth Book

A DIFFERENT SORT OF PROGRESS • Margaret Jones

Green Politics and Neo-Liberalism