Issue 208 • September/October 2001

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Technology

QUESTIONING THE UNQUESTIONED • Langdon Winner

The question is, "Why are we developing this technology in the first place?

FORFEITING THE FUTURE • Bill Joy

Powerful new technologies threaten life on Earth and raise moral issues.

WHO BENEFITS MOST? • Jerry Mander

TV and computers facilitate the centralization of global corporate power.

LET US NOT PLAY GOD • Jeremy Rifkin

We need a global debate about the ethics of genetic engineering.

CARNIVAL • Brian Eno

Carnival could be a model for culture.

FOR THE COMMON GOOD • Dr Arpad Pusztai

We must have independent scientists free from corporate funding.

ASTRO-IMPERIALISM • Karl Grossman

If the US deploys weapons in space, war will follow.

COLONIZING CULTURES • Chet Bowers

Computers undermine and marginalize non-Western societies.

AMBIVALENT ATTITUDES • Rebecca Willis

Technology is a double-edged sword.

STRIKING THE BALANCE • Peter Harper

How do we achieve sustainable lifestyles?

REDESIGN • William McDonough

We must endow our children with a healthy future.

SLOW DOWN • Satish Kumar

"When the gods made time, they made plenty of it."

SELFISH MOBILITY • Michael Shaw Bond

The mobile phone restricts greater mobility.

A DAY WITHOUT CARS • Douglas Dupler

A Car-Free Day evolves into a lifestyle.

BETTER BUSINESS? • James Wilsdon & Jonathon Porritt

Can technology help to clean up business practice?

WORDS FOR THE WILD • Stephanie Mills

Streamlining nature for profit comes at a great cost.

The Arts

NATURE TOUCHED HER SOUL • Anne-Lise Clift

The paintings of Marianne Werefkin are imbued with spiritual radiance.

Frontline

YOUNG AT HEART

Toddlers mix with old-timers.

MOTHERS UNITE

Information is the key to action.

LEADING THE WAY

Banning lead products.

NATURAL SOLUTIONS

Weeds are welcome.

Regulars

Touchstone • Colin Hodgetts

A Sense of Place • Naomi Wakan

Voice From The South • Vandana Shiva

Poetry • Lynne Wycherley

Cutting Edge • George Monbiot

Perspectives

Business Diary • David Boyle

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

THE CORPORATE COUP • James Sainsbury

It Didn't Happen Here

A MODERN MASTER • John Lane

Arthur Boyd: Art and Life

THE MARKET TRANSCENDENT • John Elkington

One Market Under God

CAUSE FOR OPTIMISM • Peter Raynard

Digital Futures

AN EPIC JOURNEY • John Moat

Sandro Botticelli: Picture Cycle for Dante's Divine Comedy

GARDENER'S DELIGHT • Brigitte Norland

Christopher Lloyd's Garden Flowers

BOOKS IN BRIEF

IN MY OWN WORDS • Leopold Kohr

Extract from The Breakdown of Nations