Wildlands Philanthropy

Contents

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

WILDLANDS PHILANTHROPY • Doug Tompkins

There is a growing new passion among a small number of millionaires in the USA - to save wild nature

WILDERNESS IN BRITAIN • Paul Kingsnorth

Saving Snowdon is a step in the right direction.

VORTEX OF IMMENSITY • Lewis H. Lapham

Monolithic and mammoth organisations are better suited to the tasks of destruction than to the work of imagination.

FROM CONSUMPTION TO SATISFACTION • Paul Ekins

The idea of consumption has gained a near-dictatorial power over the way societies are run.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT • Brendan O'Friel

Is there a relationship between growth in crime and growth in consumerism?

FISH AND FAST FOOD • David Nicholson-Lord

The rhetoric of development provides an invaluable camouflage for the exploiter.

BEGGING BABIES • Andrew Simms

Aid agencies use the desperate faces of children from poor countries to raise funds, ignoring the causes of poverty.

NONSANTO SPIRIT OF THE EARTH • Vaclav Havel

It is not enough to invent new machines and new institutions; we need the universal recovery of the human spirit.

MUSIC AND SILENCE • Sting

Music is probably the oldest religious rite. The first priests were probably musicians, the first prayers were probably songs.

A SCULPTOR OF SPIRIT • Peter Abbs

To understand the work of John Meirion Morris we have to see the artist as a spiritual agent.

THREE WISE MEN • Nick Robins

Hayek, Popper and Polanyi and the riddle of globalisation.

ECO-PHILOSOPHER • Robin Waterfield

Humanity, frugality, caring for the Earth and the interconnectedness of all things are the themes which underpin Kahlil Gibran's poetry.

Frontline

ETHICAL INVESTMENT GETS REAL • Matthew Harragin

In the eighties ethical investors were largely disinvesting from unacceptable companies but in the nineties all that is changing.

JOY OF JUNK-SWAPPING • Judy Jones

The idea is admirably simple: clear out everything you don't want and let people take what they fancy.

A HOUSE OF LEARNING • Donella Meadows

Oberlin College is building an environmental studies centre which is an ecological statement in itself.

Regulars

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle • David Nicholson-Lord

Good News For Gaia • Lorna Howarth

Business Diary • Sheila Moorcroft

Poetry • Wendell Berry & Kathleen Raine

Letter from America • Jay Walljasper

Letters to the Editors

Recipes • Dana Spowers

Reviews

WE CAN BREATHE AGAIN • Roger Franklin

Review of The Manic Sun: Weather Theories Confounded

SCIENCE AND COMMERCE • Richard Tapper

Review of Genetic Engineering - Dream or Nightmare?

GLOBAL EQUITY • Tony Juniper

Review of Greening the North..A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity

MARKET HEGEMONY • Mary Tasker

Review of False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

PLEONEXIA • Gary Lachman

Review of Waiting for the Barbarians

MONEY AND DEBT • David Boyle

Review of What Everybody Really Wants to Know about Money and The Grip of Death: a study of modern money

GREEN ROUTES • Julia Ponsonby

Review of The Green Lanes of England

A DEEP SENSE OF PLACE • Roger Kelly

Review of An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy

SIBYLS OF THE EARTH • Lindsay Clarke

Review of When Oracles Speak

ECOCRITICISM • Terry Gifford

Review of Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature

THE COMMUNITARIANS • John Button

Review of Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 98/99

THE FOURTH WISE MAN • John Lane

Review of The Greatest Gift: The Story of the Other Wise Man

TRANSFORMATION • Diana Schumacher

Review of Women in Search of the Sacred FORESTS OF THE

FUTURE • Andy McGeeney

Review of Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use

US BOOK ROUND-UP • Kirkpatrick Sale

Review of Pulling The Plug