Issue 249 • July/August 2008

Music for Transformation

Welcome

Music for Transformation • Satish Kumar

Music is the undercurrent to our collective subconsious.

Frontline

On Yer Bike • Paul Kingsnorth

A climate-friendly transport initiative.

Reasons to be cheerful • Paul Kingsnorth

The successful defence of the 'Merton Rule'.

Songs for Action • Paul Kingsnorth

Tackling and preventing HIV.

Artists' Project Earth • Kenny Young

Addressing climate change through the arts.

Quotes

Revolution • Emma Goldman

If I cannot sing and dance.

Music For Transformation

What is Music? • Annie Lennox

Music is a wonderful gift to humanity.

Conversations and Crossroads • Mark Kidel

Musical traditions need both openness and protection to evolve.

Letting Go • Howard Milner

Singing connects us to our feelings.

A Living Force • Gavin Henderson

Dartington Summer School nurtures the alchemy of music.

Beauty Speaks • Ian Skelly

Music, like Nature, is made up of harmonic patterns.

The Times They Are A-Changing' • Bob Dylan

Inspiration and Contemplation • Sara Mohr Pietsch

Music inspired by the sounds and force of Nature.

Colourful Learning • Michael Maxwell Steer

A new approach to teaching music.

Freestyling • Brian Eno

Acapella: the joy of making a beautiful sound.

Songs of Conscience • Joni Mitchell, Annie Lennox & Leonard Cohen

Music with a message.

Undercurrents

Sublime Expression • Philip Marsden

Nature is being re-examined by modern writers.

Back to our roots • Lorna Howarth

Nurturing the soil for future generations.

Climate Change

Burning Ice • David Buckland

An introduction to the Cape Farewell Project.

Frozen Light • Angus McDonald

The sublime wonder of sea ice.

Melting Gods • Nick Hunt

Climate change even affects our religious beliefs.

Cold Continent • Martin Redfern

The changing nature of Antarctica.

Regulars

Voice From The South - Double Standards • Vandana Shiva

Corporate responsibility for pollution.

Slow Travel - Footpaths to the festival • Merlin Sheldrake

A remarkable feeling of adventure.

Letter from America - Full Circle • Daniel Bellow

Community-supported agriculture.

Recipes - Summer Spirit • Daphne Lambert

Celebrating the summer harvest.

Gardening - Landmatters • Brigitte Norland

Living on the land.

Members' Page • Tracey Benton

Resurgence Slow Sunday.

Reviews

In My Own Words: Ocean Voice • David Rothenberg

Thousand Mile Song: Whale Music in a Sea of Sound.

In My Own Words: Divine Order • Frank Lyons

The Creative Gap.

In My Own Words: Singing Field • Chloë Goodchild

Sound Intelligence - A New Language of Consciousness.

The man who mistook neurology for music • Lorna Howarth

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, Oliver Sacks.

Hope Springs Eternal • Miguel Mendonça

Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity and Courage in a World Gone Mad, Frances Moore Lappé.

Assuring the Future • David Krieger

The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger, Jonathan Schell.

Swept Away • Tony Juniper

Real England, Paul Kingsnorth.

Cultural Militant • John Moat

Blackness and the Dreaming Soul, Cy Grant.

About a Man • Natalie Moore

Wendell Berry: Life and Work, edited by Jason Peters.

End Time • Mary Tasker

Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia, John Gray.

Intense Images • John Lane

Koudelka, Robert Delpire | Dominique Eddé | Michel Frizot | Anna Fárová

Only Connect? • Ken Worpole

The Earth Only Endures: On Reconnecting with Nature and Our Place in It, Jules Pretty.

A Sense of Place • Philip Conford

Field Work: Selected Essays, Ronald Blythe.

Eating and Acting • Geoff Tansey

Stuffed and Starved: Markets, Power and the Hidden Battle for the World Food System, Raj Patel.

Holy Fools and Serious Play • James Clarke

Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth and Art, Lewis Hyde.

Web Exclusives

Grounded Design • Barbara Tremain Howard

Sticks, Stones and Mud Homes: Natural Living, Nigel Noyes

Let's have some decent bread • Andrew Whitley

It's easy to make proper bread if you give it time.

Five-minute Interview • Donna Duggan

Idealism and Inspiration

Love Rules Supreme • Satish Kumar

Resurgence Slow Sunday • Satish Kumar

Real Bread • Satish Kumar

Bread as a Symbol of Biocultural Diversity • Satish Kumar

Reconnect with Tradition: Baking Bread as a Spititual Act • Satish Kumar

Act Locally to Address Global Issues • Satish Kumar

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Cover: Minature steel drums in a craft market Tobago Photograph: Anna Watson/Axiom

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