Sustaining Life

Contents

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.