A Green Manifesto

Contents

Welcome

To GM or not to GM? • Satish Kumar

Why Nature and farmers will feed the world, not Monsanto and the technocrats

Frontline

Action From the Grass Roots • Lorna Howarth

Grass roots initiatives around the globe

On the Verge of Destruction • Lorna Howarth

Councils in the UK are accused of destroying vital wildlife habitat

Ecologist

A Green Manifesto • Natalie Bennett

The Green Party vision for a good society

The State of Nature • Mark Cocker

Reflections on the state of the UK's biodiversity and a call for coordinated action

What Price a Rainforest? • Andrew Mitchell

The financial world must recognise our total dependence on natural capital

Get the Frack Out! • Almudena Serpis

Exposing the bigger issues that surround the controversial process of fracking

Urban Farming • Tom Levitt

Reporting on the growth of innovative food production in cites around the world

My Green Life • Sharon Garfinkel

An interview with Rowan Williams

Quotes

Hope • Rebecca Solnit

Another world might be possible

On Kindness • Fergal Keane

Kindess is the greatest

Ethical Living

The Transition Experiment • Bibi van der Zee

Rob Hopkins is a driving force for local community action

Family Orchards • Rupert Sheldrake

A way for families to enjoy an oasis of peace

The Perfect Marriage • Susan Clark

Recipe for delicious hawthorn and apple jam

A History of Sweetness • Robin Lee

Why wine with a story is, by definition, wine of high quality

To Hate or to Heal • Jo Berry

A personal journey of reconciliation that inspired a passion for peace

A Human Biosystem • James P Graham

Why conventional medicine needs to embrace more holistic spiritual science

Keynotes

A Long Ecology • Charles Jencks & Lily Jencks

Acclaimed landform artists share their concept for creating an ecological paradise

Undercurrents

From Charity to Solidarity • Deborah Doane

Development begins when we realise we are all in this together

Pluralist Commonwealth • Gar Aplerovitz

Building a community-sustaining economy is the way forward

Finding Common Cause • Tom Crompton

What motivates people to show they care about social and environmental issues?

Lessons From Edo • Azby Brown

An historical model for tackling the environmental challenges we face today

Can I Do Without It? • Molly Conisbee

Why we should adopt an Epicurean approach to the world

Beauty and Sustainability • Shakti Maira

Vandana Shiva on the connection between beauty and ecology

Regulars

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters from our readers

Crossword • Timothy Bonsor

A brain-teaser full of ecological clues

Poetry - Small Epiphanies • Peter Abbs

The perceptive poetry of Ann Williams

The Arts

To Light a Fire • John H Bowles

A groundbreaking exhibition of indigenous art

Blackberrying for Beginners • Clare Bryden

Shortlisted essay from the Resurgence & Ecologist Nature Writing Competition

Reviews

An Elephant in the Woods • Paul Evans

Review of Feral: Searching for Enchantment on the Frontiers of Rewilding

Class, Poverty and Climate Change • Susan Clark

Review of Flight Behaviour

A Global Family • Atul Shah

Review of The Compassionate Animal

A Journey Unfolds • Jackie Morris

Review of East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Plastic Awareness • Elizabeth Claire Alberts

Review of Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain's Chance Discovery Launched a Determined Quest to Save the Oceans

Why Genes Are Not Selfish • Colin Tudge

Review of Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice: A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas that Dominate our Lives

Web Exclusives

Article - 99 Words for Peace • Liz Gray

Scilla Elworthy and Inua Ellams share their thoughts on peace

Article - Responses to Change • Elaine Gilligan

Reflections on Signs of Change

Review - The Ghost at our Table • Lynne Wycherley

Review of Resonance: Beings of Frequency