Issue 260 • May/June 2010
On Being Human
Welcome
Education for Happiness • Satish Kumar
Education for human wellbeing and planetary sustainability.
Frontline
Trees for Life • Lorna Howarth
The Billion Tree campaign has now planted over eight billion trees.
Mountains of Hope • Angela Robson
Creating community out of catastrophe.
Living Maps • Willow Murton
How new GPS technologies are being used in the Amazon to protect Indigenous Lands.
Beyond the Barriers • David Lauer
The Indigenous Theatre Company of Sierra Tarahumara.
The Smoky Spice • Laura Buadas
Mallorca's Slow Food movement revives its paprika heritage.
Undercurrents
Going Back to Our Roots • Julian Rose
Why the Green Movement urgently needs to revisit 'Small is Beautiful'.
Nuclear is not the Solution • Helen Caldicott
Exposing the myth that nuclear power is in any way green.
Why Wool Still Matters • Sue Blacker
Stopping the demise of a sustainable and natural resource.
Nature Deficit Disorder • Richard Louv
Extracts from Last Child in the Woods.
Hold Fast • William Thomas
In the busy modern world fasting is a chance to slow down.
Quotes
My son wants to be a hero • Maryse Arnold
Teaching children about saving the planet.
To Love, to be Loved • Arundhati Roy
Never forget your own insignificance.
Keynotes
Education is the Key • Jigmi Y Thinley
The Prime Minister of Bhutan on the role of Gross National Happiness (GNH) in education.
Biocultural Diversity
Celebration • Joanna Eede
We are one: a celebration of tribal peoples.
The Arts
In the Footsteps of the Masters • Andy Christian
Artist Andrew Lacey is finding greener ways to work in bronze.
Making Trees • Paul Anderson
A sculptor grapples with the limitations of his raw materials.
On Being Human • Jan van Boeckel
Highlights from an exclusive intervew with the British sculptor Antony Gormley.
Casting a Spell • Susan Clark
The Mythic Garden is an expression of the garden as an art form.
Regulars
A Sense of Place - A Life Entwined • Robert Ernst
Spirit lives on in the orchard grass and mistflowers.
Pioneers - Georgina vs Goliath • Rachel Flemming
Interview with anti-pesticide campaigner Georgina Downs.
Big Foot, Little Foot - Getting There • Mukti Mitchell
How you travel affects how you feel when you arrive.
Recipes - New Twists on Old Favourites • Jane Hughes
Asparagus tartlets with an essence of elegant simplicity.
Nature Writers - The Hunter as Teacher • Patrick Evans
The story of Dersu is an early example of environmentally conscious thought in popular literature.
The Occasional Didymus - Each to their Own • John Moat
Who needs SatNav when you can simply ask someone the way?
Opinion - What a lot of Hot Air • John Naish
We need a new e-tiquette to communicate more mindfully in the modern age.
Poetry - An Anthology of New Voices • Peter Abbs
An appreciation of recently published poetry.
Members' Page - Start a Resurgence Readers' Group • Ian Tennant
Readers' groups are an opportunity to get together, share ideas and enjoy seasonal food.
Letters to the Editors - Reaching Out
Reviews
Awakening Consciousness • Steve Taylor
Waking From Sleep: Why Awakening Experiences Occur and How to Make Them Permanent
A Step Beyond Science • Philip Franses
Reinventing the Sacred
Much Less Resistance • David Lorimer
A New Science of Life
A Zen Approach to Cooking • Laura Deutch
The Complete Tassajara Cookbook and The Tassajara Bread Book
Aspiration or Taboo? • Jane MacNamee
On Kindness
System Reboot • Shakti Maira
bazaars, conversations & freedom
Wild Grace • Philip Vann
Bird on a Wire
Agrofuels Are Not the Answer • Victoria Bawtree
Agrofuels: Big Profits, Ruined Lives and Ecological Destruction
A Heartfelt Plea • Caspar Walsh
The Barefoot Beekeeper
Living Poetry • Jay Ramsay
The Secret Life of the Universe: The Quest for the Soul of Science
Walking Allowed • Phil Maillard
Walking Aloud: Rambles in the Cherwell Valley
Web Exclusives
Article - An Interview with Antony Gormley • Jan van Boeckel
An exclusive intervew with the British sculptor Antony Gormley.
Article - Art in Nature • Kenneth Ashburner & June Ashburner
In the foothills of Dartmoor, art, science and nature meet.
Article - Little Pink Puddings • Jane Hughes
Rhubarb and ginger puddings.
Article - Designing the Future • Nicola Gunstone
A co-operative global experiment to redesign civilisation.
Article - A Creative Unfolding • Peter Reason
The Participatory Turn: Spirituality, Mysticism, Religious Studies
Article - Sacred Geometry • Frances Howard-Gordon
How the World is Made: The Story of Creation According to Sacred Geometry
Article - Fatally Flawed • John Sauven
We need new lifestyles and new ways of living.