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Contents

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

BRITISH ASPIRATIONS • Nick Robins & Andrew Simms

British people aspire to a socially, spiritually and environmentally cohesive future.

GREEN SCENE • David Nicholson-Lord

Taking the pulse of the green movement.

A QUARTER CENTURY • Herbert Girardet

We need to build on the many new ideas that grew out of the green movement in the last twenty-five years

THE GHOST IN THE MIRROR • Andrew Marr

Like socialism before it, environmentalism is shaping the political agenda of the future.

A DISCREET VEIL • Jonathon Porritt

New Labour modernizers are ignoring the urgency of the required environmental transformation.

THE EARTH ERA • Michael Shaw Bond

From Gaia to green politics, the ideas of the past quarter-century have changed our relationship with nature and with each other.

FROM CONTROL TO PARTICIPATION • Brian Goodwin

Quantum, chaos, complexity and creativity have taken science to new frontiers.

SACRED COSMOS • Charlene Spretnak

The ecological, the feminist and the spiritual make a common cause.

GOLD IN THE SHADOW • Paul Hawken

It costs more to destroy the Earth and less to maintain it.

INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT • Jerry Mander & Debi Barker

Economic globalization has been a disastrous development for the people and the planet.

A CLIMATE OF DEBT • Andrew Simms

Our climate is owned by no one and shared by everyone. Rich countries have a case to answer.

LET NATURE BREATHE • Kenny Taylor

Restoration of wildlife is possible and feasible in Britain.

DOWNSHIFTING • Judy Jones

In the quest for quality of life some people are seeking voluntary simplicity.

HOW IT WAS FOR ME • Caroline Lucas MEP

A personal story of peace, politics and protest.

A HURRIED HISTORY OF TIME • Jay Walljasper

What happened to all the leisure promised by time-saving devices?

A SAGE OF THE WILD • Mark Tredinnick

Peter Matthiessen has rekindled a longing for the wild.

The Arts

ENGAGEMENT WITH NATURE • Oliver Lowenstein

Land Art is a passionate rebellion from the gallery-centred art-for-art's-sake convention.

A SPIRITUAL ADVENTURE • Barbara Bibb

For Alex Stewart painting is a journey.

Frontline

LONG LIVE THE WILDWOOD • Andrew Waterhouse

There is a new longing to create forests.

NATURAL FARMING • Simon Pigott

Nature has provided the seed with a perfect environment.

GROWING COMMUNITIES • Adam Rock

Vegetable boxes are delivered by bike and without glossy packaging.

SOMETHING WORTH DIGGING FOR • Marian Van Eyk McCain

The Wholesome Food Association is a new group promoting naturally grown and locally sold food.

Regulars

Poetry • Brian Lee

Good News For Gaia • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

Business Diary • David Boyle

Recipes • Dana Spowers

Reviews

VISIONARY VOICES • Walter Schwartz

Review of Books which have shaped the new world-view in the past twenty-five years.

POLITICAL PANORAMA • Daniel Mittler

Review of Planet Dialectics

STRATEGIES FOR SURVIVAL • Frances Hutchinson

Review of The Lugano Report

GOD OF THE MARKET • Ivor Stolliday

Review of Market Whys and Human Wherefores

RUMINATIONS ON REALITY • Maurice Ash

Review of Western Paths, Eastern Paths

FATE OF THE FARMERS • Tom Kennedy

Review of The Living Land

GLORIOUS GARDENS • Brigitte Norland

Review of The Pursuit of Paradise and Christopher Brickell's Garden Plants

DIVINE PRESENCE • Peter Quince

Review of The Sacred Earth

A CURSE ON OUR TIME • Chris Roth

Review of Believing Cassandra

LET THE BUFFALO ROAM • Claus Biegert

Review of All Our Relations

MUCH ADO ABOUT MODERNISM • John Lane

Review of Modern Times Modern Places

A REMARKABLE MAN • Kevin Jackson

Review of John Ruskin, The Later Years