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Welcome
I Am An Optimist • Satish Kumar
Optimism empowers whilst pessimism disempowers
Frontline
Action From the Grass Roots • Lorna Howarth
Grass roots initiatives around the globe
Food, Glorious Food • Jyotsna Ram
Relationships, not money, hold the key to ecological food production
Art for Oceans • Lorna Howarth
Living sculptures redress coral reef decimation
Ecologist
The World We Made • Jonathon Porritt
We still have time to build a sustainable future
Selling Out on Our Ecosystems • Beth Stratford
How best to cost up the true value of Nature?
Physics and The Rainforest • Peter Bunyard
A new scientific theory links rainforest destruction to climate change
Protecting the Countryside • Andrew Motion
A rally cry to all who care about the countryside
My Green Life • Sharon Garfinkel
An interview with Deborah Meaden
Quotes
Alternatives • Miriam Valero
The fight against consumerism
Unity in Diversity • Swami Vivekananda
Seeing truth in a hundred thousand ways
Ethical Living
Good for Nothing • Sven Segal
Unfair competition puts small ecobusinesses at a huge disadvantage
Jakob von Uexkull • Claudia Cahalane
The founder of the Right Livelihood Award in profile
Trees in Schools • Andreas Kornevall
We can restore the Earth one tree at a time
The Original Free School • Lorna Howarth
How the Small School has survived the test of time
Spiced Juniper Berry • Susan Clark
A spicy mulling syrup from the berries of the juniper tree
The Cult of Money • Pope Francis
A timely message calling for the return of ethics to the world of big finance
A Clean Slate • John Moat
After forty year of aspiring to a perfect lawn, John Moat calls a truce with his nemesis
Keynotes
A New Politics • Michael Jacobs
Why we need collaboration between the Greens and Labour
Undercurrents
Work as Craft • Molly Scott Cato
Craft as labour
Natural Farming • Ted Taylor
Yoshikazu Kawaguchi is seen by many as a leader in the natural farming movement in Japan
Speaking the Unspeakable • Shantena Augusto Sabbadini
The legend of the origin of the Tao Te Ching
Beauty: A Way of Life • Shakti Maira
Satish Kumar on the trinity of truth, goodness and beauty
Nature's Artists • David Rothenberg
Finding a link between beauty and biology
Regulars
Letters to the Editors
A selection of letters from our readers
Crossword • Timothy Bonsor
A brain-teaser full of ecological clues
Poetry - The Poetry of Meditation • Peter Abbs
Introducing Buddhist poet Maitreyabandhu
The Arts
New Landscapes • India Windsor-Clive
Exploring the work of the Chinese environmental artist Yao Lu
Urban Zoology • Mary Ann Lieser
Commended essay from the Resurgence & Ecologist Nature Writing Competition
The Spirit of the Land • Luke Piper
A personal story of inspiration from the Aboriginal outback
Reviews
Limitless Beauty • Peter Reason
Review of The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Notes for a Contemplative Ecology
Poetry with Purpose • Matthew Merritt
Review of The Mara Crossing
Loss of the Childscape • Mary Tasker
Review of Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape
A Hero for Our Time • Heathcote Williams
Review of The Black Pimpernel
Living Thinking • Stephan Harding
Review of Thinking Like A Plant: A Living Science for Life
An Economic Prophylactic • Stephen Lewis
Review of Meme Wars: The Creative Destruction of Neoclassical Economics
The Dynamic Way of Seeing • Simon Robinson
Review of Taking Appearances Seriously: The Dynamic Way of Seeing in Goethe and European Thought
Food in Our Cities • Tom Levitt
Review of Farming the City: Food as a Tool for Today's Urbanisation
Web Exclusives
Article - Beauty Comes First • Chris Lloyd
Celebrating the work of pioneering nature photographer Ansel Adams
Article - Art for Regrowth • Joey Foster Ellis
Reflection on underwater reef sculptures
Article - Inspired Learning • Udi Mandel
A journey through higher education initiatives
Review - Do Animals Think and Feel? • Richard Ryder
Review of The Wisdom of Animals and Animal Wise: The Thoughts and Emotions of our Fellow Creatures
