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Welcome
People Planet Health • Satish Kumar
Healthy people need a healthy planet.
Frontline
Ocean Waste • Lorna Howarth
A 60 ft catamaran made from recycled bottles is raising awareness of marine pollution.
Become a Robin Hoodie • Lorna Howarth
Taxing the banks to tackle poverty.
The Mosaic of Nature • Andreas Kornevall
Earth restoration in schools.
A GM Hot Potato • Lorna Howarth
Disregarding the precautionary principle.
This Is Not a Rainforest • Lorna Howarth
Challenging EU sustainability criteria.
Community Forestry • Arthur Mugisha & Mark Infield
Integrating local values into protected area management in Uganda.
Health
Health Warning • Susan Clark
How climate change will impact on human health.
Sustaining Life • E.O. WIlson
The forgotten link between human health and biodiversity.
Ecological Health • Ted Schettler
Why a new definition of health must be an ecological one.
Health Care Without Harm • Harriet Griffey
How the health sector could set the bar for more sustainable practice.
Medicines From Nature • Joanna Eede
Plant cures from tribal peoples.
Unlocking The Grief • Ian Siddons Heginworth
Tackling the emotion behind mental health problems.
Quotes
The Peace of Wild Things • Wendell Berry
I rest in the grace of the world.
Paradox • Chaturvedi Badrinath
An inquiry into the human condition.
Loving is Eternal Innocence • Alberto Caeiro
I believe in the world like I belive in a marigold.
Undercurrents
Eternal Beauty • Shakti Maira
Investigating the nature of beauty.
The Ecology of Growth • Nick Robins
How new economic thinking is challenging the old models.
Keynotes
Dismantling Development • Wolfgang Sachs
Equity and wellbeing will define the new post-development age.
The Arts
The Language of Flowers • Philip Vann
The sensuous flower paintings of Winifred Nicholson.
Italian Renaissance Drawings • Amabel Barraclough
Celebrating the synthesis of art, Nature and science.
A Sacred Symbol • Jerry Glover
On the trail of the flower of life.
Regulars
Voice From The South - Blindspots and Biases • Vandana Shiva
India's proposed Food Security Act is deeply flawed.
Big Foot, Little Foot - Low Carbon Holiday • Mukti Mitchell
Whatever you want from a holiday, keep your carbon footprint low.
Recipes - Scrumping in the Rose Garden • Jane Hughes
A time to bring more edible flowers to our table.
Gardening - Sharing the Garden • Brigitte Norland
To finally know ourselves as part of Nature is te true gift of the summer garden.
Nature Writers - A Mythology for Our Time • Caspar Walsh
Tolkiens trilogy is an extended fable for the causes, effects and solutions to our modern-day woes.
Poetry - Answering Back • Peter Abbs
A new volume of lyrical poetry from David Constantine.
Letters to the Editors - In Praise of Orchards
A selection of letters to our editors.
Members' Page - Resurgence in the Classroom • Ian Tennant
Inspiring students with the Resurgence philosophy.
Reviews
The Two Brains • Keith Sagar
Review of The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
A Missed Opportunity • Miguel Mendonça
Review of Solar
Expect the Unexpected • Andy Christian
Review of Modern British Potters and their Studios
A New World in the Making • Ken Martin
Review of A Renewable World: Energy, Ecology, Equality
The Nature of Hope • Mark Ogden
Review of Hope For Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
A New Blueprint • Ian Tennant
Review of Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There from Here
Web Exclusives
Article - Rosewood Ban • Lorna Howarth
Tackling the logging crisis in Madagascar.
Article - Lighter Later • Lorna Howarth
Cutting Carbon by extending daylight hours.
Article - Power Wellies • Lorna Howarth
Eco-friendly mobile phone charging technologies reach a new level.
Article - Ghost Forest • Lorna Howarth
Highlighting the depletion of the world's resources.
Article - Biodiversity and Wellbeing • Sandra Díaz
The vital systems needed for human survival are at risk unless we address biodiversity loss.
Article - The Gift of True Health • Misha Norland
Healing beyond the mind and body and into the transpersonal level according to homeopathic principles.
Article - A Rollercoaster Ride of Experience • Mark Boyle
The Moneyless Man: A Year of Freeconomic Living
Review - Hidden Gems • Steve Marvell
Review of The Forager Handbook: A Guide To The Edible Plants of Britain
Article - Beyond the Dark Harvest • Ian Siddons Heginworth
In reaching only for those things that truly nourish, sustain and enliven us, we move beyond life's trappings and temptations and harvest life itself.
