Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 280 • September/October 2013
A Green Manifesto

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Inside this issue

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Welcome

To GM or not to GM? •

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

Frontline

Action From the Grass Roots •

Grass roots initiatives around the globe

On the Verge of Destruction •

Councils in the UK are accused of destroying vital wildlife habitat

Ecologist

A Green Manifesto •

The Green Party vision for a good society

The State of Nature •

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

What Price a Rainforest? •

The financial world must recognise our total dependence on natural capital

Get the Frack Out! •

Exposing the bigger issues that surround the controversial process of fracking

Urban Farming •

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

My Green Life •

An interview with Rowan Williams

Quotes

Hope •

Another world might be possible

On Kindness •

Kindess is the greatest

Ethical Living

The Transition Experiment •

Rob Hopkins is a driving force for local community action

Family Orchards •

A way for families to enjoy an oasis of peace

The Perfect Marriage •

Recipe for delicious hawthorn and apple jam

A History of Sweetness •

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

To Hate or to Heal •

A personal journey of reconciliation that inspired a passion for peace

A Human Biosystem •

Why conventional medicine needs to embrace more holistic spiritual science

Keynotes

A Long Ecology • &

Acclaimed landform artists share their concept for creating an ecological paradise

Undercurrents

From Charity to Solidarity •

Development begins when we realise we are all in this together

Pluralist Commonwealth •

Building a community-sustaining economy is the way forward

Finding Common Cause •

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

Lessons From Edo •

An historical model for tackling the environmental challenges we face today

Can I Do Without It? •

Why we should adopt an Epicurean approach to the world

Beauty and Sustainability •

Vandana Shiva on the connection between beauty and ecology

Regulars

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters from our readers

Crossword •

A brain-teaser full of ecological clues

Poetry - Small Epiphanies •

The perceptive poetry of Ann Williams

The Arts

To Light a Fire •

A groundbreaking exhibition of indigenous art

Blackberrying for Beginners •

Shortlisted essay from the Resurgence & Ecologist Nature Writing Competition

Reviews

An Elephant in the Woods •

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

Class, Poverty and Climate Change •

Review of Flight Behaviour

A Global Family •

Review of The Compassionate Animal

A Journey Unfolds •

Review of East of the Sun, West of the Moon

Plastic Awareness •

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

Why Genes Are Not Selfish •

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 •

Scilla Elworthy and Inua Ellams share their thoughts on peace

Article - Responses to Change •

Reflections on Signs of Change

Review - The Ghost at our Table •

Review of Resonance: Beings of Frequency