Small is the New Big

Contents

Welcome

Planetary Wellbeing • Satish Kumar

Instead of economic growth we need growth in wellbeing

Frontline

Action From the Grass Roots • Lorna Howarth

Grass roots initiatives around the globe

Rewilding Scotland • Penny Bunting

One million trees and counting: celebrating 25 years of eco-restoration

Thailand's Green Island • Lorna Howarth

Redressing the impacts of tourism

Ecologist

The Importance of Soil • Eliot Coleman

Time spent studying soil is as valuable as any time spent in the classroom

Small is the New Big • Vandana Shiva

In the smallest seed lies the potential of the largest tree

The Real Power in Politics • Donnachadh McCarthy

Corporate lobbyists are undermining democracy

A Consumer Revolution • Tamsin Omond

Cheap products on one side of the world cost the lives of fellow humans on the other

My Green Life • Sharon Garfinkel

Caroline Flint, Shadow Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change shares her views

Quotes

We Stand on Soil • Sigmar Groeneveld

The bond between soil and being

Nelson Mandela • Nelson Mandela

A tribute to Nelson Mandela 1918 - 2013

Ethical Living

The Dalai Lama • Hylton Murray-Philipson

Understanding the deep commitment and faith of a remarkable spiritual leader

Masoumeh Ebtekar • Elizabeth Wainwright

A profile of Iran's first female vice president

Walking in the Bush • Benjamin Neville

Introducing one of the great walking trails of South Australia

The Art of Dainty Cakes • Susan Clark

Celebrate spring with mini primrose cakes

Pedagogy of Sustainability • Fritjof Capra

Sustainability is, and always has been, about community

Wellbeing

Genuine Leisure • Edward Skidelsky

To be without leisure is to be only half alive

What the Body Knows • Rowan Williams

Restoring a sense of the sacred

Healthy Nature, Healthy People • Tony Juniper

Human wellbeing is the route to planetary wellbeing

Keynotes

The Green Message • Michael Meacher

Politicians need to wake up to our growing concerns about climate change

Undercurrents

The Gift • Kristine McDivitt Tompkins

The challenges of philanthropy

Seeing with New Eyes • Chris Johnstone

How to practice Active Hope

Beauty and Nature • Shakti Maira

An interview with scientist Rupert Sheldrake

Our Place in the Universe • Mary Evelyn Tucker

We are moving towards the next stage of evolutionary history

Regulars

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our Editors

Poetry - The Blue inside the Black • Peter Abbs

A tribute to the late Claire Clube

The Arts

Gates of Paradise • Rebecca Hossack

Celebrating Anne Middleton's vision of the natural world

Reviews

Purity of Solitude • Ralph Pite

Review of Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin in the Middle Taiga

Staggering Beauty • Paul Kingsnorth

Review of Monte León National Park

Moving the World • Karen Christensen

Review of Berkshire Encyclopedia of Sustainability

A Moral Issue • Richard Ryder

Review of Bleating Hearts: The Hidden World of Animal Suffering

Wonder of Life • Hugh Warwick

Review of The Book of Barely Imagined Beings: A 21st-century Bestiary

Another Language • Philip Pegler

Review of Hidden Beauty of the Commonplace: A Nature Mystic's Reflections upon the True Meaning of Freedom

A Message of Hope • Jackie Morris

Review of The Promise

Web Exclusives

Article - What's the Beef? • Tom Levitt

Is lab-grown meat the logical next step in farming?

Article - A Question of Real Protection • Horatio Morpurgo

Marine conservation could be leaving entire ecosystems at risk

Article - Ghost Tour • Lucy Scott

The threatened marsh Sow-thistle is on the verge of rebirth