Issue 254 • May/June 2009
Elegant Simplicity
Welcome
Elegant Simplicity • Satish Kumar
Our fixation with fashion is a key cause of current world crises.
Frontline
Little Green Fingers • Charlotte Corner
Celebrating the transformation of 'school food culture'.
Exploring Core Values • David Lorimer
Creating healthy relationships and lifestyles.
Land Sharing • Giovanna Dunmall
Ground-breaking gardening initiatives.
To Live With The Sea • Ruth Rosselson
Preserving the livelihood and environment of the Vezo people of Madagascar.
Theatre For The Earth • Alok Ulfat
An innovative theatre company helping to create awareness of ecological wellbeing.
Eco-parenting
Nurture for Nature • Kali Wendorf
Taking a closer look at parenting issues.
Nature-Deficit Disorder • Richard Louv
We must prevent the extinction of Nature in our children's hearts.
Videophilia • Aric Sigman
Televisions and computers have hijacked childhood.
Keynotes
The Tyranny of Trends • Charty Durrant
What is the true cost of our love of designer labels?
SCAP: Sustainable Clothing Action Plan • Lorna Howarth
Defra launches a Sustainable Clothing Action Plan.
Biocultural Diversity
Reap What You Sow • Vandana Shiva
Why does the Indian government continue to turn a blind eye towards farmers' suicides?
Subsistence Culture • Tewolde B. G. Egziabher
Learning from the wisdom of Mother Africa.
Poisoning The Planet • Miguel A Altieri
Saluting the small farmers who refuse to co-operate with the agribusiness paradigm.
Undercurrents
Bourgeois Maths • Emmánuel Lizcano
Questioning the supremacy of the mathematics of the European tribe.
Prophet of Deep Ecology • Erin Scott
A tribute to Arne Naess.
Relocation, Relocation, Relocation • Gianluca Brunori
A ripost of the false promise of "total economies".
Water Stress • Nick Hunt
The Kashmir Valley now faces a threat even greater than human conflict.
Quotes
Resistance to New Ideas • Bertrand Russell
Think Like A Mountain • Arne Naess
We are not outside the rest of nature.
The Arts
Elemental Experience • Tanya Harrod
The unusual braiding of art, craft and accident in the work of Francis Wishart.
China From China • Sandy Brown
Experiences from a cross-cultural exchange.
The Willow River • Simon Olding
The introspective work of 'craft artist' Sarah Pank.
Encounters in Creation • Peter Popham
Artistic collaborations of extraordinary spiritual resonance.
Regulars
Nature Writers - On Birds • Mark Cocker
The sublime writing of J. A. Baker and Aldo Leopold.
Poetry - The Greater Journey • Peter Abb & John Pack
A collaboration of poetry and photography.
Recipes - Magical Elder • Daphne Lambert
Gathering armfuls of delicate elderflowers is one of the delights of early summer.
Transition Time - Living My Truth • Mark Boyle
The impact of living without oil and what the future holds.
Letters to the Editors - Cultural Corrections
Poetry - Coda 4 • John Moat
In Memory of John Fairfax, former Poetry Editor of Resurgence.
Members' Page - Summer Camp Connections • Lorna Howarth
A day without fossil fuels.
Reviews
Songs of a Migratory Bird • David Cadman & Kim Samuel
The Golden Boat: Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore.
Like Moths to a Flame • Sophie Poklewski Koziell
Lighting a Candle: Kathleen Raine and Temenos - Reflections, Memories, Tributes.
Opening the Ground to Starlight • Ruth Gendler
Gardening at the Dragon's Gate: At Work in the Wild and Cultivated World.
From Farm to Feast • Julia Ponsonby
Riverford Farm Cook Book: Tales from the Fields, Recipes from the Kitchen.
Megatrends • Tony Juniper
Futurecast 2020: A Global Vision of Tomorrow.
Learning Webs • Mark Tasker
Everywhere All The Time: A New Deschooling Reader.
Back to the Future • Dave Hampton
The Age of Stupid documentary.
Web Exclusives
Article - The Sanctity of Land • Mark Helyar
Money is still deemed to have more worth than natural assets
Review - The Patient Gardener • Brigitte Norland
Wait for decisiveness to be informed by spirit of place.
Article - The Family of Things • Thomas Bailey
Mary Oliver’s poetry celebrates the utter and irreducible beauty of the ordinary world.
Article - Dignity For All • Claire Hunt
Whilst India boasts of economic miracles, the majority of the rural poor continue to suffer indignity and exploitation.
Article - Curious Visions • Andy Christian
There is something of the visionary in the work of Peter Doig, yet a disquieting sense of tension and expectation permeates his paintings.
Review - Change Makers • David Boyle
Positively Responsible and The Difference Makers.
Review - Learning From Bees • Lynn Batten
Toward Saving the Honeybee.
Review - The Reality Revolution • David Lorimer
Quantum Shift in the Global Brain.
Review - The True Cost of Paper • Ruth Rosselson
Paper Trails: From Trees to Trash – The True Cost of Paper.