Issue 228 • January/February 2005

Welcome

A WAKE-UP CALL • Lorna Howarth

Feature Articles

AT WAR WITH THE EARTH • James Lovelock

Urgent action is required to deal with the emergency of global warming.

HALTING MASS EXTINCTION • Stephan Harding

Ecosystem biodiversity gives rise to healthier, more robust ecological communities which are more effective at resisting climate change.

THE WHOLE SYSTEM • David M. Wilkinson

Green Mountain on Ascension Island offers a challenge to traditional notions of nature conservation.

CHALLENGE OF CHANGE • Sir Crispin Tickell

Climate change will force us to rethink the fundamental precepts on which we base our societies.

15 GAIAN IDENTITY • Anne Primavesi

VISIONS AND VALUES • Mary Midgley

ART OF THE POSSIBLE • Rt Rev John Oliver

WHY NOT NUCLEAR POWER? • Peter Bunyard

It is time to acknowledge our interdependence, and to see ourselves as part of the Gaian community.

GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS • Rajni Bakshi

New ways to measure human wellbeing.

JOY OF SILENCE • Ian Skelly

Silence has the ability to centre us and connect us with the essential harmony of the universe.

SIESTA • Antonio Sanz Luque

How to practise 'Spanish yoga'.

TRANSFORMING THE JUNGLE • Tishani Doshi

Bhajju Shyam, a Gond artist, delights us with his visual interpretation of London.

38 ANIMAL CULTURE • Suzi Gablik

Interspecies Communication is vital for the wellbeing of all.

A GOLDEN LEGACY • Kirkpatrick Sale

Repaying the Columbus debt.

MOUNTAIN WOMEN • Sue Carpenter

A portrait of six women who embrace the mountains on a daily basis.

REVERENTIAL RETREAT • Philip Grant

Unity and diversity are two sides of the same coin.

Regulars

Voice From The South - GIFT OF FOOD • Vandana Shiva

Poetry • Aidan Andrew Dun, Angela Kirby, Steven O'Brien, Jane Spiro & Ann Williams

Visionaries - THICH NHAT HANH • Allan Hunt Badiner

In the Field - FARM OF THE FUTURE • Jules Pretty

The Occasional Didymus - INTERMEDIATE GIZMO • John Moat

Touchstone - ALL CHANGE! • Colin Hodgetts

Notes From The Underground - GREEDIER AND SPEEDIER • David Nicholson-Lord

Recipes - MASH AND MIX • Quentin Seddon

Letters to the Editors

Perspectives

Frontline

STREET CORNER REVOLUTION • Stephen Silha

Portlanders are transforming their neighbourhoods.

HEALING VOICE • Ulric Van Den Bogaerde

Sound is a spiritually invigorating force.

THE LIVING RAINFOREST • Peter Lang

A unique experiment in ecosystem education.

Reviews

BOOKS IN BRIEF • Marian Van Eyk McCain

FOR BETTER OR WORSE • James Fahn

In My Own Words

THE QUEST TO PERFECT NATURE • Alan Simpson MP

Recoding Nature

A CASE FOR CAUTION • Larry Dossey

Ecological Medicine

WORLD FULL OF WONDER • Heather Eaton

Worldly Wonder

FAMILY ECOLOGY • David Sempau

The Secret Language of Children

CHANGE IS CONTAGIOUS • John Elkington

How to Change the World

WHAT POETRY CAN DO FOR US • Philip Gross

Heavy Water and Half Life

STOICISM NOW! • Stephanie Mills

Powerdown

THE GREEDY SOUL • Noel Cobb

The Insanity of Empire