The Power of Nature
Issue 215 • November/December 2002
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Welcome
Welcome • Satish Kumar
Feature Articles
THE FAILURE OF WAR • Wendell Berry
The free-market economy is becoming the war economy.
HIGHER DESTINY • Dennis Kucinich
If you think peace, you create peace.
PSYCHOLOGY OF CONFLICT • Michael Shaw Bond
The dehumanising war of the Middle East.
LIVING ECONOMIES • David Korten
Alternatives to the 'suicide economy'.
WINDS OF CHANGE • Lester Brown
Developments in sustainable energy.
KEEPING TO OUR WORD • Sadruddin Aga Khan
The term 'sustainable development' has been hijacked.
LIBERATION THEOLOGY • Leonardo Boff
Liberating the impoverished Earth.
A CLOUD IN A PIECE OF PAPER • Sulak Sivaraksa
Buddhism and reverential ecology.
LOVE LETTERS • Thích Nhất Hạnh
Compassionate communication.
LOVE OF GIVING • Polly McLean
The power of philanthropy.
QUESTIONING MODERNITY • Charlene Spretnak
Islam's concerns about modernity are common to many of us.
NIGHT WRITING • John Daniel
Embracing darkness and all it illuminates.
SACRED GIFT • Simone Poirier-Bures
On kumys and commodification.
TYRANNY OF TOYS • Ziauddin Sardar
Modern toys limit imagination.
The Arts
THE POWER OF NATURE • A. Crichton-Miller
Margaret Neve's magical visions.
HOMAGE TO HANDS • Avril Baker
Anne Payton celebrates the crafts through her art.
PRIMORDIAL PAINTING • Philip Vann
A retrospective look at two recent art exhibitions.
Frontline
WORKING WOODS • Tino Rawnsley
RURAL SOLUTIONS • Kate Burrell
Regulars
Deep Spirit • Thomas Moore
Perspectives
Up the Elephant and Round the Castle • David Nicholson-Lord
Poetry
EARTH SONGS
Wild Lives • Terry Tempest Williams
Crafts • Sandy Brown
The Occasional Didymus • John Moat
Recipes • Daphne Lambert
Letters to the Editors
Reviews
A WAY OF HOLINESS • David Cadman
Review of Heading for Home
TRUE ANARCHISM • Natasha Walter
Review of About Anarchism
TOTALLY LOCAL • Helena Norberg-Hodge
Review of George Soros on Globalisation
FRIENDLY BANK MANAGER • Peter Lang
Review of Banking and Social Cohesion
WHOLE MIND CATALOGUE • Satish Kumar
Review of The Art of Looking Sideways
OF KIFF AND KLEE • John Lane
Review of Ken Kiff and Paul Klee Selected by Genius
WHOLE SOCIETY SOLUTION • Mary Tasker
Review of Sustainable Education
EXCHANGE OF EMPATHY • Kim Taplin
Review of Lodestones
RECLAIMING ROMANTICISM • Peter Abbs
Review of The German Tradition and The Song of the Earth
HOUSE OF TRICKERY • John Fairfax
Review of Bunny
CLIMATE SALVATION • Mike Koefman
Review of Hydrogen Futures
IS OUR LAND THEIRS? • Colin Ward
Review of Who Owns Britain
TRANSFORMING THEORY • John Coleman
Review of Simultaneous Policy
ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION • Dan Bertolet
Review of Eco-economy
LIFE IN A GRAIN OF SAND • Brigitte Norland
Review of The World is my Garden
SPIRITUAL DESTINY • Nick Pearson
Review of The Seat of the Soul
BOOKS IN BRIEF • Marian Van Eyk McCain
FLAVOUR OF THE UNIVERSE • Barry Hopewell
Review of One Taste
SEEING THROUGH DELUSION • Jordi Pigem
Review of A Buddhist History of the West