Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 265 • March/April 2011
Intrinsic Values

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Welcome

Our Core Values •

We need to live by intrinsic values

Quotes

Selected Words of Wisdom

Inspiration from women farmers in Gharwal Himalaya

Strive for wellbeing

A proverb from Rajasthan

Frontline

Stairway to Heaven •

Growing Food on the roof of a supermarket

No More Playing God •

UN declares moratorium on climate techno-fixes

A Sea is Revived •

A dam brings good news

Sister Act •

All-women trekking agency empowers women in Nepal

Sutton Life Centre •

An innovative new eco-building to inspire young people

Birchwood Specialist •

A rare sawfly is found at a Caledonian Forest Conservation site

Back From the Brink •

Conservation efforts to save rare snakes

Large as Life •

Campaigning art you can see from space

Photo Feature

Celebrating 45 Years •

Champions of intrinsic values

Undercurrents

Transcending Self-interest •

Why we should never apologies for values that create a fairer world

A Call to Humility •

We need to design cities fit for humans and Nature

Moral Housekeeping •

The Archbishop of Canterbury shares his vision for 'correcting' values that led to the collapse

Pilgrim or Tourist? •

Exploring the real journey we must all make

Music for Peace •

How the music of Bach inspires the author's peace-building work

Keynotes

Islam and the Environment •

We need look no further than timeless wisdom to get back on track

The Arts

Dirty Art • &

Two earth artists explain how they create colour from natural pigments

Cosmic Colours •

A paint-maker shares her discovery of the deeper meaning of colour

The Age of Beauty •

Celebrating the life of Botticelli

The Art of Liberation •

Reviewing Tate Britain's Romantics Rehang exhibition

Regulars

Deep Spirit - Living In Earth •

Moments of joy in nature are gifts to be treasured

Projections - Wild Nature •

Movies about wilderness evoke a passion and respect for vivid wild landscape

Recipes - Baking Bread •

To be or not to be vegan?

Pioneers - Reawakening Gandhi •

Campaigner Rajagopal has reawakened the spirit of nonviolent protest

Slow Travel - A Holy Pilgrimage •

Finding peace and tranquillity at the source of the Ganges

Nature Writers - The Pond •

Witnessing the miracle of a normally hidden watery world

Gardening - The Resurgence Peace Garden •

A garden that represents a symbolic journey in search of our true nature

Opinion - Keeping Watch •

The right to know what we are eating is a sacred right

Letters to the Editors - The Real World

A selection of letters from our readers

Poetry - Writing as Witnessing •

The work of Linda France

Members' Page - Stop Ocean Plastics •

Working to reduce the amount of plastic in the marine environment

Members' Page - How to Start a Readers' Group •

Create an opportunity to meet with Resurgence readers and share ideas

Reviews

Little Magic •

Review of Truda Lane's Lifelines

Abstract Affinities •

Review of Kurt Jackson: A New Genre of Landscape Painting

A Stellar Life •

Review of On Gandhi's Path: Bob Swann's Work for Peace and Community Economics

Thinking Outside the Box •

Review of The Case for Working with Your Hands

Green the World •

Review of GreenSpirit: Path to a New Consciousness

Blueprint for Change •

Review of Plenitude: The New Economics of True Wealth

Treading Lightly •

Review of Climate and Christ: A Prophetic Alternative

Saturated with Soul •

Review of Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology

A More Human World •

Review of Personal Growth African Style

A New Logic •

Review of The Positive Deviant: Sustainability Leadership in a Perverse World

Web Exclusives

Article - Unsustainable Subsidies •

Assessing the impact of industrial biofuel production

Article - The Riches of Burma •

A new species of snub-nosed monkey is discovered

Article - The Resurgence Garden •

Gardens are a vehicle for reconnecting with the Earth and inner peace

Article - Back to Front Gardening • , &

An inspirational project that encourages the use of front gardens for food production

Review - Butterfly Wings and Why •

Review of Butterflies: Messages from Psyche