Seeds of Life

THE FOUNDATION OF FOOD • Satish Kumar

SLOW FOOD • Wendy Fogarty

Defence against fast food begins at the table with Slow Food.

COSMIC KITCHEN • Miche Fabre Lewin

From food all things are born, by food they live, into food they return.

FROM CONFLICT TO COMMUNICATION • Lyly Rojas & Pico Iyer

Literature rescues us from abstraction and ideology.

SHAPERS OF DESTINY • Deepak Chopra

Leaders and followers co-create each other.

WHAT IS MY OCCUPATION? • Usha Maira

Breadwinners and bread-makers deserve equal dignity.

ACTIVISM IS A SPIRITUAL PATH • Michael Brownstein

Meditating on McDonald's and Monsanto.

FROM OWNERSHIP TO TRUSTEESHIP • Lewis Hyde & Peter Barnes

The key to managing any commons is to respect it as a gift.

WHY NATURE IS GOOD FOR US • David Nicholson-Lord

Nature persuades us that life is worth living.

THE GREAT BATTLE • HRH The Prince of Wales

A tribute to the poetic soul of Kathleen Raine.

INSIDE OUT • David Cadman

Simone Sandelson's paintings reveal the tensions between painter and subject.

POLITICS OF THE IMAGINATION • Jonathan Robinson

Reflections on global activists who are proving that another world is possible.

WHOLESOME LIVING • Jonathan Dawson

Exploring the connections of the ecovillage movement.

TAKING THE SLOW TRAIN • Paul Salveson

How Britain is rediscovering its rural railways.

SPIRITUAL RESTORATION • Francesca Lyman

Vietnam veteran finds a natural road to recovery.

Crafts • Robert Hartford

Poetry • Michael Longley

Musical Journeys • Philip Marsden

Deep Spirit • Thomas Moore

Visionaries • A. Rangarajan

In the Field • Jules Pretty

A Sense of Place • Peter Randall-Page

Letters to the Editors

EVALUATING WHOLENESS • Stuart Cowan

Review of The Nature of Order

In My Own Words OUR BIRTHRIGHT • Christopher Alexander

THE ECOLOGY OF LOVE • Paul Matthews

Review of Earth Songs

A POETICS OF CULTURE • Jeremy Hooker

Review of Against the Flow

QUESTIONING SPIRIT • Andy Christian

Review of Images of Earth and Spirit: A Resurgence Art Anthology

GAIA'S GIFT • Julia Ponsonby

Review of Green and Black's Chocolate Recipes and The Little Food Book

In My Own Words NATURE IS SACRED • Alick Bartholomew

AESTHETIC IMPERATIVE • Terry Irwin

Review of Timeless Beauty

A WOMAN ON THE MOON • Lindsay Clarke

Review of The Moon: Myth and Image

ESSENTIALLY ENGLISH ARTISTS • John Lane

Review of The England of Eric Ravilious and Ben Nicholson: drawings and painted reliefs

BOOKS IN BRIEF • Marian Van Eyk McCain