Nature, Science and Society

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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.'

SHUN THE AWFUL SHOPS' • John Seymour

The idea of cheap and easy shopping in superstores is an illusion.

WHOLESOME FOOD • Alan Gear

The least we can learn from the BSE catastrophe is to switch from agribusiness to agriculture and grow food organically.

A BIO-CENTRIC WORLDVIEW • Kirkpatrick Sale

Paul Shepherd rejected the 'human-centred' notions of modern society.

CREATING RAINFORESTS • Jay Walljasper

This Columbian example of true sustainability shows a way to reforest the world.

Reviews

Video - MINDWALK • Joseph D'Morais

Review of Explores the new worldview for an ecologically sustainable future in a video based on Fritjof Capra's book - The Turning Point.

ART OF DELIGHT • Kathleen Raine

Review of Art: For Whom and For What? - Brian Keeble

SELF AND COMMUNITY • Ivor Stolliday

Review of The New Golden Rule - Amitai Etzioni

HUMAN HABITATS • David Pearson

Review of Designing Ecological Settlements - Margrit And Declan Kennedy (eds)

MOVED BY MOUNTAINS • Julia Ponsonby

Review of Sacred Mountains: Ancient Wisdom and Modern Meaning - Adrian Cooper

RADICAL RELIGION • Martine Batchelor

Review of Engaged Buddhism: Buddhist Liberation Movements in Asia - Christopher s. Queen and Sallie B. King

ENVIRONMENTAL VALUE • Seaton Baxter

Review of Valuing Nature: Economics, Ethics and Environment - John Foster (ed)

WORKERS FOR ECOLOGY? • Dave Elliott

Review of Reforming Energy: Sustainable Futures and Global Labour - Peter Colley

THE SPIRIT OF FARMING • Julian Rose

Review of Farms of Tomorrow Revisited - Trauger Grohe and Steven Mcfadden

INTIMATE IMAGES • Suzi Gablik

Review of Home Altars of Mexico - Dana Salvo with R. Gutierrez, S. Scalora and W. Beezley

PERILS OF GLOBALIZATION • Richard Douthwaite

Review of The Global Trap: Globalization and the Assault on Democracy and Prosperity - Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann

GARDENS OF GRACE • Ronald Lello

Review of Sacred Gardens - Roni Jay

SCIENCE WHERE IT LEADS • Chris Clarke

Review of The Spirit of Science: from Experiment to Experience - David Lorimer (ed)

OBSESSION WITH ECONOMY • Philip Conford

Review of The Political Economy of Social Credit and Guild Socialism - Frances Hutchinson and Brian Burkitt

STILL LIFE WITH PASSION • Brian Goodwin

Review of In Search of Nature - E.O. Wilson

RICH TRADITIONS • John Lane

Review of Tribes - Art Wolfe