Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 278 • May/June 2013

Natural Wealth

Inside this issue

Welcome

The Year of Collaboration • Satish Kumar

Working together to make a difference

Frontline

Action From the Grass Roots • Lorna Howarth

Grass roots initiatives around the globe

Ending Ecocide • Lorna Howarth

A Citizens' Initiative

Pension Funds and Carbon Trading • Lorna Howarth

An example of ecocide in Kalimantan

Two Million Trees for Haiti • Lorna Howarth

Farmers' coops strengthen resilience

Ecologist

Seed Freedom • Vandana Shiva

Defending the rights of famers to save their own seeds

Enough Food For Everyone • Vicki Hird

Humanity is in danger of exhausting key resources

Behind the Brands • Erinch Sahan

Holding the ten big food and drink companies to account

Global Canopy • Andrew Mitchell

The true value of our tropical rainforests

Greening of Our Cities • Jonathon Porritt

Cities are leading the way in sustainability

My Green Life • Sharon Garfinkel

Michael Mansfield on our collective responsibility to the planet

Ethical Living

The New Materialism • Ruth Potts & Andrew Simms

A manifesto for material wellbeing

Love in Corporations • Patrick Andrews

How to create sustainable businesses with deeper values

A Smaller Circle • Karen Christensen

The importance of community living

Head, Heart and Hands • Alberto D Fraile Oliver & Mélanie LeBlanc

Introducing a radical education project

A Test of Character • Robin Lee

The delights of biodynamic wine

Quotes

It All Turns on Affection • Wendell Berry

Sustainability depends on harmony between cultural and natural cycles

Keynotes

The Money Revolution • Oliver Tickell

It's time to take control of our money and use it to create a fairer society

Undercurrents

Natural Wealth • HRH The Prince of Wales

Human economy is totally dependent on Nature's systems

The Science Delusion • Rupert Sheldrake

We should take accepted assumptions as the beginning of an enquiry

A Poet for All Times • O N V Kurup

A tribute to Tagore's vision and it's relevance in the modern world

Changing the World: The Pudding of Experience • Andrew McAulay

Why we must be mindful participants in the world

The Cosmic Quest • William Elmhirst

Celebrating the vision and values of Vera Elmhirst

Regulars

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters from our readers

Poetry - New Voices • Peter Abbs

Eco-poetry that connects us to the intricate web of life

The Arts

Moments to Conserve • Chris Lloyd

Reflecting on the respectful approach to Nature photography

Ice Age Art • India Windsor-Clive

Discovering some of the earliest examples of human creativity

Science and Beauty • Shakti Maira

In part three of his Beauty Dialogues, Shakti talks to scientist Pushpa Bhargava

Reviews

A Poetic Revolutionary • Richard Ryder

Review of Shelley at Oxford: Blasphemy, Book-burning and Bedlam

Earth Debt • Mark Cocker

Review of What Has Nature Ever Done For Us? How Money Really Does Grow on Trees

Eleven Extraordinary Activists • Edgar Vaid

Review of Small World Big Ideas

Owning and Owing • Ed Mayo

Review of Owning Our Future: The Emerging Ownership Revolution

Business Harmony • Giles Hutchins

Review of The Nature of Business: Redesigning for Resilience

Enduring Spirit • John Spradbery

Review of My Dear Jim: An Artist in War and Peace

Anarchic Seeds • Peter Ainsworth

Review of Talking Green

Web Exclusives

Article - Muses upon Muses • Jeremy James

Mystical knowledge appears in moments of creativity

Article - Different Voices • Susan Clark

Introducing the winners of the 2013 Resurgence & Ecologist Nature Writing Competition

Review - A Spiritual Connection to the Soil • Molly Scott Cato

Review of The Bioregional Economy: Land, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

Review - Don't lobby your MP - 'be' your MP • Rupert Read

Review of The Carbon Cycle: Crossing the Great Divide