Gaia and Global Change
Issue 228 • January/February 2005
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Welcome
A WAKE-UP CALL • Lorna Howarth
Feature Articles
AT WAR WITH THE EARTH • James Lovelock
Urgent action is required to deal with the emergency of global warming.
HALTING MASS EXTINCTION • Stephan Harding
Ecosystem biodiversity gives rise to healthier, more robust ecological communities which are more effective at resisting climate change.
THE WHOLE SYSTEM • David M. Wilkinson
Green Mountain on Ascension Island offers a challenge to traditional notions of nature conservation.
CHALLENGE OF CHANGE • Sir Crispin Tickell
Climate change will force us to rethink the fundamental precepts on which we base our societies.
15 GAIAN IDENTITY • Anne Primavesi
VISIONS AND VALUES • Mary Midgley
ART OF THE POSSIBLE • Rt Rev John Oliver
WHY NOT NUCLEAR POWER? • Peter Bunyard
It is time to acknowledge our interdependence, and to see ourselves as part of the Gaian community.
GROSS NATIONAL HAPPINESS • Rajni Bakshi
New ways to measure human wellbeing.
JOY OF SILENCE • Ian Skelly
Silence has the ability to centre us and connect us with the essential harmony of the universe.
SIESTA • Antonio Sanz Luque
How to practise 'Spanish yoga'.
TRANSFORMING THE JUNGLE • Tishani Doshi
Bhajju Shyam, a Gond artist, delights us with his visual interpretation of London.
38 ANIMAL CULTURE • Suzi Gablik
Interspecies Communication is vital for the wellbeing of all.
A GOLDEN LEGACY • Kirkpatrick Sale
Repaying the Columbus debt.
MOUNTAIN WOMEN • Sue Carpenter
A portrait of six women who embrace the mountains on a daily basis.
REVERENTIAL RETREAT • Philip Grant
Unity and diversity are two sides of the same coin.
Regulars
Voice From The South - GIFT OF FOOD • Vandana Shiva
Poetry • Aidan Andrew Dun, Angela Kirby, Steven O'Brien, Jane Spiro & Ann Williams
Visionaries - THICH NHAT HANH • Allan Hunt Badiner
In the Field - FARM OF THE FUTURE • Jules Pretty
The Occasional Didymus - INTERMEDIATE GIZMO • John Moat
Touchstone - ALL CHANGE! • Colin Hodgetts
Notes From The Underground - GREEDIER AND SPEEDIER • David Nicholson-Lord
Recipes - MASH AND MIX • Quentin Seddon
Letters to the Editors
Perspectives
Frontline
STREET CORNER REVOLUTION • Stephen Silha
Portlanders are transforming their neighbourhoods.
HEALING VOICE • Ulric Van Den Bogaerde
Sound is a spiritually invigorating force.
THE LIVING RAINFOREST • Peter Lang
A unique experiment in ecosystem education.
Reviews
BOOKS IN BRIEF • Marian Van Eyk McCain
FOR BETTER OR WORSE • James Fahn
Review of In My Own Words
THE QUEST TO PERFECT NATURE • Alan Simpson MP
Review of Recoding Nature
A CASE FOR CAUTION • Larry Dossey
Review of Ecological Medicine
WORLD FULL OF WONDER • Heather Eaton
Review of Worldly Wonder
FAMILY ECOLOGY • David Sempau
Review of The Secret Language of Children
CHANGE IS CONTAGIOUS • John Elkington
Review of How to Change the World
WHAT POETRY CAN DO FOR US • Philip Gross
Review of Heavy Water and Half Life
STOICISM NOW! • Stephanie Mills
Review of Powerdown
THE GREEDY SOUL • Noel Cobb
Review of The Insanity of Empire