Inspired Designs
Issue 230 • May/June 2005
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Welcome
INSPIRED BY NATURE • Satish Kumar
Feature Articles
SILENT TSUNAMIS • Jamie Drummond
We have the vision and resources to eradicate AIDS and poverty.
TIME FOR A PEASANT REVOLUTION • Colin Tudge
The industrialisation of agriculture creates mass unemployment, poverty and hunger.
ALL ABOARD THE SKYLARK! • Richard Hammond
Can responsible tourism sit comfortably with air travel?
GENIUS OF NATURE • Janine Benyus
Biomimicry offers us the opportunity to experience the genius of nature.
EARTH TO EARTH • Harland Walshaw
Houses that unite beauty and sustainability.
SACRED DESIGN • David Kirkland
A Christian perspective on architecture.
THE ISLAMIC IMAGINATION • Emma Clark
Paradise is the garden where water flows.
MEDITATION HALL • Ajahn Sucitto
A 'forest monastery' at Chithurst.
TIMBER RENAISSANCE • Oliver Lowenstein
Bringing skills back from the edge of extinction.
DOES YOUR HOME MAKE YOU SICK? • Erica M. Elliott
Illnesses do not come out of the blue.
ANIMA MUNDI • Amy Lenzo
Dancing the soul of the world.
A SHAMANIC JOURNEY • John Michell
The spiritual traditions of the Altai people of Siberia are flourishing.
BIZARRE BAZAAR • Anita Roddick
Ritual does us a power of good.
Regulars
Voice From The South - TSUNAMI LESSONS • Vandana Shiva
Small Steps - CONSCIENCE CLOTHING • Ruth Rosselson
Crafts - CULTURE OF CLAY • Rebecca Yeo
Touchstone - MOAN THERAPY • Colin Hodgetts
Letters to the Editors
Poetry - HOMAGE TO RILKE • Peter Abbs
Notes From The Underground - SECOND-HAND • David Nicholson-Lord
Visionaries - TAMBIMUTTU • Sebastian Barker
A Sense of Place - STROKING THE COLUMBIA • Christopher Swain
Notes From The Underground - SECOND-HAND • David Nicholson-Lord
Frontline
SWEET MEDICINE • Marian Van Eyk McCain
Reviews
In My Own Words: THE ECOLOGY OF SELF-REFLECTIO • William Bloom
THE FLOATING WORLD • John Lane
Review of Hokusai
A BEACON TO DISPEL THE GLOOM • Chris Hall
Review of Joys: Passages from the Works of Thomas Traherne
A VITAL MIND • Brian Keeble
Review of The Essential Ananda K. Coomaraswami
GRAY'S ANATOMY • Kirkpatrick Sale
Review of Heresies: Against Progress and Other Illusions
EQUITY IS SURVIVAL • Mark Lynas
Review of How We Can Save the Planet
THE FUTURE IS NOW • Elaine Brook
Review of Cities People Planet
A LIVING TRADITION • Nick Jones
Review of The Floss on the Mill
BOOKS IN BRIEF • Marian Van Eyk McCain
Web Exclusives
Article - THE REFLECTIVE LIFE • Judy Gahagan
Staying human by writing poems.
Article - DEAD-WOOD • Phil Page
Just another blot on the landscape or a valuable aesthetic and wildlife habitat?
Article - SCHOOL OF CARING • Clive Davidson
Learning at Brockwood Park is based on ecology and a sense of the sacred.