Issue 215 • November/December 2002

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

THE FAILURE OF WAR • Wendell Berry

The free-market economy is becoming the war economy.

HIGHER DESTINY • Dennis Kucinich

If you think peace, you create peace.

PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFLICT • Michael Shaw Bond

The dehumanising war of the Middle East.

LIVING ECONOMIES • David Korten

Alternatives to the 'suicide economy'.

WINDS OF CHANGE • Lester Brown

Developments in sustainable energy.

KEEPING TO OUR WORD • Sadruddin Aga Khan

The term 'sustainable development' has been hijacked.

LIBERATION THEOLOGY • Leonardo Boff

Liberating the impoverished Earth.

A CLOUD IN A PIECE OF PAPER • Sulak Sivaraksa

Buddhism and reverential ecology.

LOVE LETTERS • Thích Nhất Hạnh

Compassionate communication.

LOVE OF GIVING • Polly McLean

The power of philanthropy.

QUESTIONING MODERNITY • Charlene Spretnak

Islam's concerns about modernity are common to many of us.

NIGHT WRITING • John Daniel

Embracing darkness and all it illuminates.

SACRED GIFT • Simone Poirier-Bures

On kumys and commodification.

TYRANNY OF TOYS • Ziauddin Sardar

Modern toys limit imagination.

The Arts

THE POWER OF NATURE • A. Crichton-Miller

Margaret Neve's magical visions.

HOMAGE TO HANDS • Avril Baker

Anne Payton celebrates the crafts through her art.

PRIMORDIAL PAINTING • Philip Vann

A retrospective look at two recent art exhibitions.

Frontline

WORKING WOODS • Tino Rawnsley

RURAL SOLUTIONS • Kate Burrell

Regulars

Deep Spirit • Thomas Moore

Perspectives

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

Poetry

EARTH SONGS

Wild Lives • Terry Tempest Williams

Crafts • Sandy Brown

The Occasional Didymus • John Moat

Recipes • Daphne Lambert

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

A WAY OF HOLINESS • David Cadman

Heading for Home

TRUE ANARCHISM • Natasha Walter

About Anarchism

TOTALLY LOCAL • Helena Norberg-Hodge

George Soros on Globalisation

FRIENDLY BANK MANAGER • Peter Lang

Banking and Social Cohesion

WHOLE MIND CATALOGUE • Satish Kumar

The Art of Looking Sideways

OF KIFF AND KLEE • John Lane

Ken Kiff and Paul Klee Selected by Genius

WHOLE SOCIETY SOLUTION • Mary Tasker

Sustainable Education

EXCHANGE OF EMPATHY • Kim Taplin

Lodestones

RECLAIMING ROMANTICISM • Peter Abbs

The German Tradition and The Song of the Earth

HOUSE OF TRICKERY • John Fairfax

Bunny

CLIMATE SALVATION • Mike Koefman

Hydrogen Futures

IS OUR LAND THEIRS? • Colin Ward

Who Owns Britain

TRANSFORMING THEORY • John Coleman

Simultaneous Policy

ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION • Dan Bertolet

Eco-economy

LIFE IN A GRAIN OF SAND • Brigitte Norland

The World is my Garden

SPIRITUAL DESTINY • Nick Pearson

The Seat of the Soul

BOOKS IN BRIEF • Marian Van Eyk McCain

FLAVOUR OF THE UNIVERSE • Barry Hopewell

One Taste

SEEING THROUGH DELUSION • Jordi Pigem

A Buddhist History of the West