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Welcome
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FARMING • Satish Kumar
Human-scale farming methods are the most sustainable, the most compassionate and the most pleasurable.
Frontline
YOU ARE NOT MY ENEMY • Marc Ian Barasch
Building Bridges for Peace is bringing together young people from Palestine and Israel.
PEOPLE'S PRESIDENT • Paul Kingsnorth
Evo Morales is Bolivia's first-ever indigenous president.
CYCLE STATIONS • Oliver Lowenstein
The Cycle Station Project is developing places of rest along the UK's National Cycle Network.
COTTONING ON • Harriet Lamb & Kate Eshelby
Arguments for Fairtrade and organic cotton.
AMBASSADORS OF PEACE • Ian Prattis
Friends for Peace organise Canada's annual Peace Song Circle and Peace Prayer Day.
Current Affairs
SUBSIDISED THEFT • Craig Sams
The US government pays huge subsidies to US farmers at great cost to the health of humans and the global economy and to the stability of our climate.
THE NEW GASTRONOMY • Carlo Petrini
Slow Food: agriculture, the land and the table are totally interconnected.
Undercurrents
WHICH WAY CHINA? • Herbert Girardet
Dongtan, the world's first eco-city, is leading the way in urban sustainability.
BUILDING MILES • Rob Hopkins
Sourcing materials locally will enable us to build more efficiently.
EARTH DWELLINGS • Katy Bryce & Adam Weismann
Cob building encompasses the spirit of simplicity and elegance: wabi-sabi.
SECURING THE FUTURE • Jonathan Dawson
People's Pension Funds: making our savings work for people and planet.
Keynotes
COMMON SENSE • HRH The Prince of Wales
Healthy ecosystems are fundamental to healthy business.
MAKING ROOM FOR BEAUTY • Oliver Letwin MP
Politicians need to realise that beauty and sustainability are two sides of the same coin.
The Arts
NOBLE DESIGNS • Simon Olding
Guy Martin's furniture attemps to make an aesthetic expression of ecological principles.
STATE OF PLAY • Hannah Prothero
Sandy Brown's new work in clay is inspired by the eternal dance of life.
MOVEMENTS AND MAGIC • Peter Randall-Page
An interview with belly-dancer Sam Hasthorpe.
Regulars
Gardening - IN FULL FLOWER • Brigitte Norland
The delights of peonies, poppies, honeysuckle and lilac.
Deep Spirit - BATHROOM RITUALS • Thomas Moore
A bath is a 'solution' in which the problems of life are soaked and sorted.
The Occasional Didymus - WRINKLY GREEN • John Moat
A modest contribution to saving the planet from global warming.
Notes From The Underground - THE UNDERGROWTH OFFENSIVE • David Nicholson-Lord
London's vegetation is adopting the tactics of guerilla warfare.
A Sense of Place - HIGH CHURCH • Philip Marsden
The monastery of Abba Yohannis in Ethiopia.
Voice From The South - IN THE NAME OF DEVELOPMENT • Vandana Shiva
Development' has become a camouflage for capitalist growth.
Visionaries - MAUDE BARLOW • Jerry Mander
A global activist is resisting Canada's loss of sovereignty.
Sensible Solutions - TIME FOR CHANGE • Oliver Tickell
Small ways to make a big difference: cars, trans fats, smart electricity meters, saving envelopes, water efficiency.
Perspectives
Paper, holidays, domestic energy, recycling vs virgin wood pulp, biodegradable mobile phone cases, nuclear power stations, golf courses.
Letter from America - THE POWER IN OUR POCKET • Nicols Fox
Choosing how we spend our money is a tool for transformation.
Letter from Key West - OUR FATE IS YOURS • Rosalind Brackenbury
Every serious writer must be a radical environmentalist.
Poetry - CLARE BEST • Peter Abbs
Poems by a writer-in-residence on an organic farm and the children she inspired.
Letters to the Editors - ANIMATE EARTH
Reviews
THE BIG PICTURE: Vanishing Act
Review of How animals use the art of camouflage. From Vanishing Act by Art Wolfe.
In My Own Words: ANIMATE EARTH • Stephan Harding
Review of Animate Earth by Stephan Harding
EDEN EXAMINED • Philip Marsden
Review of Fencing Paradise by Richard Mabey
ART & RELIGION • Suzi Gablik
Review of Buddha Mind in Contemporary Art (eds) Jacquelynn Bas and Mary Jane Jacob
BACK TO THE FUTURE • John Lane
Review of Architecture in Wood by Will Pryce
THE LABOURERS' CHAMPION • Philip Conford
Review of The Life and Adventures of William Cobbett
A MYTH OF PROGRESS • Jules Pretty
Review of Outgrowing the Earth by Lester Brown
REDESIGNING CAPITALISM • James Sainsbury
Review of Capitalism As If the World Matters by Jonathon Porritt
NOSES TO THE GRINDSTONE • Dorothy Schwartz
Review of Willing Slaves by Madeleine Bunting
BANKING ON CORRUPTION • Peter Lang
Review of Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
WE ARE WHAT WE EAT • James Wells-Bruges
Review of Not on the Label by Felicity Lawrence
Web Exclusives
Review - EGO-LED vs. EGO-LESS • Steve Taylor
Review of The Fall by Steve Taylor
Review - GROWN-UP SCIENCE • Chris Clarke
Review of Pathways of Chance by F. David Peat
Review - THE CREATIVE IMPULSE • John Lane
Review of On the Nature & Significance of the Crafts by Brian Keeble
Review - VOCIFEROUS WORLD • Kate Rawles
Review of Animism by Graham Harvey
