The force of imagination

Contents

Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

WILLIAM BLAKE Prophet of Imagination • Kathleen Raine

An introduction to the renowned poet, painter, visionary and mystic.

EARTH COMMUNITY • Thomas Berry

The human economy is a subsystem of the Earth economy.

FORCE FOR CHANGE • Augusto Boal

To "act" is to perform and to take action for social change.

EXPLORING GAIA • Stephan Harding

Gaia theory extends natural selection to include the evolution of organisms and their physical environment.

GREEN BUDDHISM • Maurice Ash

A sense of wholeness demands appropriateness of scale.

FREE LUNCHES, YES: FREE MARKETS, NO • James Robertson

Fairer sharing of the value of common resources is practical politics, not just a utopian dream.

FRIENDS OF CITIES • Daniel Mittler

To love nature we must not abandon cities.

Education

EDUCATING ON A HUMAN SCALE • Fiona Carnie

Integrating ecology, community and holistic values.

TRUE LEARNING • Jenny Brain

Schools where art and environment form the basis of early childhood education.

A TALE OF TWO SCHOOLS • Caroline Walker

All education is environmental education.

AN EARTH ACADEMY • David Nicholson-Lord

Schumacher College celebrates ten years of environmental education.

Protest

SOLIDARITY IS IN THE AIR • Margaret Jones

Resistance is as transnational as capital.

The Arts

A PARADE OF BEAUTY • Donna Gold

John Wilde makes you love the wormhole in a leaf.

SCULPTOR OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT • William Varley

Nicolaus Widerberg's sculptures have empirical and intuitive qualities.

Frontline

FARMERS' REVOLT - LAURA COPPO • David Rose

Supreme court stops intensive shrimp farming.

GREEN LAWYER

Getting tough on polluters.

Meditation

MASTERING THE MIND • S. N. Goenka

Vipassana meditation is a way of being at peace with oneself and with the world.

Regulars

Touchstone • Colin Hodgetts

Letter from America • Jay Walljasper

Poetry • Dana Gioia

Recipes - OATS • Dana Spowers

Reviews

THE FRIEND OF THE EARTH • Peter Quince

Review of Let the Mountains Talk

PASSION FOR PEACE • Mary Tasker

Review of Cultures of Peace

SAINT JANE OF THE CHIMPS • John Elkington

Review of Reason for Hope

AGEING IS NO ACCIDENT • Theodore Roszak

Review of The Force of Character

WHEEL AND ARROW • Dorothy Schwartz

Review of Pip, Pip: a Sideways Look at Time

A TOWERING THINKER • Kirkpatrick Sale

Review of Sidewalk Critic

ELUCIDATING SOUL • Gay Watson

Review of Integral Psychology

BEAUTIFUL EARTH • Julia Ponsonby

Review of All the Marvelous Earth

SACRED PLACES • John Lane

Review of The Spirit of Asia

COMPANIES RULE, OK? • James Wells-Bruges

Review of Captive State

A HEALTHY WAY OF LIFE • Suresh Rambhai

Review of Ayurveda for the Western Mind