Resilience & Climate Change
Issue 257 • November/December 2009

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Welcome
Flower Power • Satish Kumar
Resilient flowers need resilient fields and forests to flourish.
Frontline
Keeping Oil in the Ground • Peter Bunyard
The Yasuni Initiative is setting a precedent for rainforest nations to protect their capital.
Client Earth • James Thornton
The power of law can create justice for the planet.
Positive Media • Imogen Ororke
Green social networking communities are behind a rise in positive media online.
Big Bang Lab • Sergio López Figueroa
Delhi City Symphony has helped change the lives of people with limited prospects.
Vancouver - The Greenest City in the World? • Allan Badiner
The virtues of a city that is embracing the seismic shift towards a green economy.
Keynotes
Resilience Thinking • Rob Hopkins
Why 'resilience thinking' is a crucial missing piece of the climate-change jigsaw.
Can We Cope? • Sir Crispin Tickell
Can we overcome 'conceptual sclerosis' and address the multiplicity of issues related to climate change?
The Three 'Rs' • Jonathon Porritt
Three fundamental principles should underpin any approach to food security: resilience, resolarisation and relocalisation.
Quotes
Trees • Joyce Kilmer
I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
The Simple Life • Lao Tzu
Let people measure life by the meaning of death.
Biocultural Diversity
Amazon Imperative • Peter Bunyard
For our own survival we must implement global protection of tropical rainforests.
Time for Action • Tony Juniper
The kind of leadership that was shown in bailing-out the banks should be demonstrated to protect tropical rainforests.
Trees are the Answer • Satish Kumar
Let us continue the work started by Wangari Maathai and reforest the entire world, creating right livelihood for all.
Climate Justice • Vandana Shiva
The polluters continue to pollute with impunity, whilst people thousands of miles away bear the brunt of their actions.
Undercurrents
Climate-friendly Farming • Mukti Mitchell
Rich-soil farming could help us turn back the carbon clock.
Positive Tipping Point • Hazel Henderson
The Copenhagen climate conference could be the positive tipping point for global eco-awareness.
Changing Direction • Kate Rawles
Climate Change is a symptom of economic and political systems committed to exponential growth on a planet with biophysical limits.
A Learning Society • Kate Davies
The next step in human evolution depends on our ability to live sustainably on the Earth.
The Power of Trust • Rachel Flemming
An interview with Fiona Reynolds, Director General of the National Trust.
The Arts
Art for Earth's Sake • Satish Kumar
We need a paradigm shift from 'ego-art' to 'eco-art'.
Banksy • Andy Christian
Has the commodification of Banksy's art taken the edge off his work?
Homemade • Ros Badger & Elspeth Thompson
The makings of a Christmas wreath.
Regulars
Poetry - The Hope of Renewal • Peter Abbs
The epic power of Nature and the poignancy of love: the poetry of Robyn Bolam.
Gardening - Lonesome Pines • Brigitte Norland
Native pine trees are a resilient species that can adapt to most circumstances.
Nature Writers - Clattinger • John Moat
The intimate writing of Peter Please, whose meditations on an "ordinary" place extend our knowledge of the living world.
Sensible Solutions - Natural Frugality • Oliver Tickell
The practice of natural frugality creates a quiet but abiding satisfaction all of its own.
Pioneers - Green Compassion • Amanda Pissani
Marc Barasch, founder of Green World Campaign, is pioneering simple and direct ways to reforest the earth.
Letters to the Editors - Eco Blind Spot?
Members' Page - Resurgence Reader's Profile • Ian Tennant
Taking small actions can make a big difference.
Reviews
What on Earth Evolved? • Christopher Lloyd
Review of One hundred species that changed the world.
Ancient Light • Sean Borodale
Review of A Sleepwalk on the Severn.
Song at the Hazardous Edge • Jeremy Hooker
Review of Voyaging Out.
Meaningful Work • Jordi Pigem
Review of A Life at Work: The Joy of Discovering What You Were Born to Do.
Jewels of Evolution • Lorna Howarth
Review of Consider the Birds: Who They Are and What They Do.
Wrung from the Dark • Natasha Rivett-Carnac
Review of Wild: An Elemental Journey.
Web Exclusives
Review - A Better Life for All • Sue Buckingham
Review of Low Impact Development: The Future in Our Hands.
Review - The Illogical Religion of Economics • Jane MacNamee
Review of On the Edge of the Forest.
Review - Books In Brief • Jo Oland
Review of Keeping Something Alive.