Issue 247 • March/April 2008

Welcome

Fossil Fools • Satish Kumar

Keynotes

The Forgotten Map • Manfred Max-Neef

It's time to navigate alternative routes.

The Rhythm of Gratitude • David Orr

Life without wonder is not worth living.

Intelligent Growth • Stephen Harding

Seeing 'growth' in another light

Climate, Biodiversity & Livelihoods

The Language of Nature • Liz Hosken

Introducing this issue’s special feature.

Offsetting Democracy • Kevin Smith

Exposing the inadequacies of carbon trading.

Feeding People or Cars? • Robin Maynard & Vandana Shiva

Rebuilding agricultural resilience.

Smokestacks and Smokescreens • Henk Bobbelink

The realities of agrofuel production.

The Webs of Life • Angela Cordeiro

Reconnecting local networks.

Natural Law • Andrea Kimbrell

Transforming legal systems.

Earth Jurisprudence • Ian Mason

Principles for a natural way of living.

African Spirit • Haidee Swanby

An interview with Mphatheleni Makaulule.

Gaian Renaissance • Brian Goodwin

The emergence of a new cultural vision.

What We Could Do • The Gaia Foundation

A 12 Point Plan

Undercurrents

Milk of Human Kindness • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

Animal welfare is paramount in organic dairy production.

The Arts

The Cat that Walked by Himself • Jonathan Stedall

The centennial year of Cecil Collins.

Body, Being, Place • Natasha Rivett-Carnac

A conversation with Antony Gormley.

Regulars

Short Story - The Requirement • Wendell Berry

Deep Spirit - Pray to Gaia • Thomas Moore

Slow Travel - Passport to Petra • Mark Smith

Gardening - A Spring Sowing • Brigitte Norland

Sensible Solutions - Time to Change • Oliver Tickell

A Sense of Place - Stolen Canoe • Jules Pretty

Letter from America - Our Part is to Remain Calm • Suzi Gablik

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

In My Own Words: Making Time • Steve Taylor

Cycling Community • Lorna Howarth

Cycling to Work

An Innocent Eye • John Lane

Mary Newcomb

Beyond the Brochure • Richard Hammond

The Final Cut

Grandmother's Scrapbook • Brigitte Norland

The Biodynamic Year

Pictures Paint A Thousand Words • Oliver Tickell

Earth Then and Now

Lover of Wisdom • Keith Critchlow & Emma Clark

The Essential Seyyed Hossein Nasr

A Bouquet of Thought • Chellis Glendinning

Tough Little Beauties

A Life in Writing • Fiona Sampson

The Flowering of Flint

21st Century Writing • Jonathon Porritt

Spirituality as a Public Good