Nature, Science and Society

Issue 190 • September/October 1998

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Feature Articles

THE LONGEVITY REVOLUTION • Theodore Roszak

The aging population is not a problem, it is the true wealth of nations.

KEEP US IN OUR OLD AGE • Peter Lang

The financial institutions earn more from pension funds than the old age pensioners!

TECHNOLOGY AND LIFESTYLES • Amory Lovins

The publication of Factor Four - Doubling Wealth, Halving Resource Use was seen by many as heralding a new direction for technological progress. But can clean, green technology produce a genuinely ecological lifestyle? Amory Lovins, one of the book's authors, co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Insatiate, and a pioneer of the concept of 'soft energy', talks to David Nicholson-Lord.

WE SHALL BE WHOLE • Prof P. Krishna

Science and spirituality are two aspects of a single reality. There is no antagonism between them.

MINI-NEIGHBOURHOODS • Mary Roslin & Martin Field

The British Government is proposing to build four million new houses by 2010! 'Co-housing' is a way of moving from house-building to community-building.

IS NATURE REAL? • Gary Snyder

Those deconstructionists who believe that nature is merely a 'social construction' are deluding themselves.

SCIENCE, SOCIETY AND NATURE • Jane Lubchenco

Is science prepared to meet the real challenges facing the future? The answer is 'No.' Humanity is entering the century of the environment. A new contract is needed between science and society.

THE PEASANT ART OF EXQUISITE BEAUTY • Rebecca Hossack

The women of Janakpur may be poor and illiterate, but they are great artists.

MICHAEL HONNOR: A PAINTER OF THE WILD • Jenny Pery

The wild landscapes of Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales and west coast of Scotland have inspired the work of Michael Honnor.

GARDEN RESTORED • Brigitte Norland

The visitors to the restored garden of Heligan feel part of the whole and not processed through the ticket office and round the garden. There is an exchange of intimacy.

NATURE CORDONNED-OFF • Paul Kingsnorth

Wilderness in Britain has been pushed into a corner.

A COMMON PRAYER • Michael Leunig

When prayer occurs our soul is revitalised; the garden is watered.

A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE • Jenny Morton

I, my husband and our seven children live on an eight-acre smallholding on the Scilly Isles. We grow most of our food and educate our children in a small school which we run on our land.'