Celebrating 40 Years of Resurgence
Issue 238 • September/October 2006
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Welcome
ENVIRONMENTAL NARRATIVES • Satish Kumar
Marking forty years of Resurgence.
The Movement
EDGING CLOSER TO MELTDOWN • Jonathon Porritt
There is still a window of opportunity to ward off ecological collapse.
LOW-CARBON FUTURE • Caroline Lucas MEP
No more compromise: we need Greens in governments NOW!
LESSONS ON LEADERSHIP • Sara Parkin
Strategic, imaginative leadership will facilitate truly sustainable development.
GREEN GENEROSITY • Peter Lang
We should harness the spirit of co-operation within the environmental movement.
Keynotes
DISPELLING THE DARKNESS • Deepak Chopra
The next revolution, the one that will save us, will arise inside.
IMAGINATION HOLDS THE KEY • Tim Smit
It's time to actively create ideas and institutions to work with the grain of Nature.
Nature Care
BIOLUXURIANCE • Richard Mabey
We have scarcely begun to understand the intricacy of the biosphere.
THE GREAT URBAN INDOORS • David Nicholson-Lord
We are losing sight of Nature in our bid to gratify our appetites.
WILDNESS AND FREEDOM • Rosamund Kidman-Cox
Most of the fields of my childhood were built over in the name of progress and development.
RURAL REPLENISHMENT • Fiona Reynolds
Communities of the past had a deep connection with the land, and have much to teach us about the future.
The Greening of Politics
THE ENEMY WITHIN • Geoff Mulgan
We can change our world by changing our hearts and minds.
WHITHER THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT? • Michael Meacher
The environmental movement cannot rest on its laurels when there is so much yet to be done.
THE LONG AND WINDINGROAD • Alan Simpson MP
Climate change will be the trigger that brings 'corporate feudalism' to an end.
The Economics of Wellbeing
BUCKING THE SYSTEM • Anita Roddick
Corporations must shift their energy into making the world cleaner and fairer.
BEYOND PEAK OIL • Richard Heinberg
There is a simple formula to avoid economic collapse: reduce oil consumption by 3% per year.
AUTHENTIC OPTIONS • David Boyle
Ethical consumerism is a spiritual act.
EARTHQUAKES OF CONSCIOUNESS • Jerry Mander
Moving from advertising glitz to anti-globalisation fervour.
RICHER? YES; HAPPIER? NO • Andrew Simms
The Happy Planet Index could help us to live within our environmental means.
BUSINESS WAVES • John Elkington
I seem to be coming full circle, back to 'small is beautiful'.
JOINING UP THE DOTS • Paul Allen
If we think holistically about our planetary problems, we are presented with an equal number of solutions.
FROM CARBON TO SOLAR • Jeremy Leggett
Some flashbacks from the past forty years, and some dreams for the next forty.
Gaian Science
MAKING PEACE WITH GAIA • James Lovelock
Through our intelligence and communication networks, human beings are the nervous system of the planet.
FROM QUANTA TO THE SEED • Vandana Shiva
The seed is my greatest teacher. From the seed I learn how to integrate with the web of life.
LEARNING FROM LEONARDO • Fritjof Capra
What we need today is exactly the kind of science that Leonardo da Vinci outlined 500 years ago.
Eco-Architecture
BUILDING A BETTER WORLD • David Pearson
We need a benign architecture that is carbon-neutral and low-impact and uses sustainable materials and appropriate technology.
Peace Building
INVESTING IN HEALING • Scilla Elworthy
Human security rather than the use of force offers the best chance for peace in the 21st century.
Eco-Initiatives
CHANGE THE WORLD • Hannah Cassidy
Forty initiatives that are changing our world.
Reviews
In My Own Words: ARTISTS BY THEMSELVES • Philip Vann
Review of Face to Face by Philip Vann
VOCIFEROUS WORLD • Kate Rawles
Review of Animism by Graham Harvey
In My Own Words: EGO-LED VS. EGO-LESS • Steve Taylor
Review of The Fall by Steve Taylor
A LOVE FOR GAIA • Edmund O'Sullivan
Review of Animate Earth by Stephan Harding
GROWN-UP SCIENCE • Chris Clarke
Review of Pathways of Chance by F. David Peat
DOING WRITING • Adam Thorpe
Review of The Founding of Arvon by John Moat
BEEN A BOY AGAIN • Philip Vann
Review of Pigs must eat on Sundays by Ben Hartley
ROOT, LEAF, SHOOT AND FRUIT • Julia Ponsonby
Review of The Biodynamic Food and Cookbook by Wendy E. Cook
ABOUT TURN • Victoria Bawtree
Review of Ripped and Torn by Amaranta Wright
AN INTIMATE EXISTENCE • Caroline Walker
Review of A Silent Joy by Etain Addey and Real Horsepower by Martin Lanz
THE CREATIVE IMPULSE • John Lane
Review of Every Man an Artist (ed.) Brian Keeble and On the Nature & Significance of the Crafts by Brian Keeble
Web Exclusives
Article - SIGNS OF OPTIMISM • Nicols Fox
The film An Inconvenient Truth is drawing a healthy audience.
Review - AFFECTIONATE INTIMACY • Philip Vann
Review of Francis of Assisi by Greg Tricker
Review - ALL WE NEED IS LOVE • Georgina Weaver
Review of The Crucible of Love by Jay Ramsay
Review - AN EVANGELIST SPEAKS • Bill McKibben
Review of God Laughs and Plays by David James Duncan
Review - CAN FREE TRADE EVER BE FAIR? • Chris Wright
Review of Fair Trade For All by Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton
Review - DREAMING OF THE LAND • Jules Pretty
Review of Fields that Dream by Jenny Kurzweil
Review - THE CHIEFS OF STAFF MUST GO • Hugh Beach
Review of Lions, Donkeys and Dinosaurs by Lewis Page
Review - THE CORPORATION THAT CHANGED THE WORLD • Nick Robins
Review of The Corporation that Changed the World by Nick Robins
Review - THE SURROUND SOUND OF SILENCE • Ian Skelly
Review of The Spirit of Silence by John Lane
Review - UNFINISHED BUSINESS • Nick Robbins
Review of The Great Transformation by Karen Armstrong
