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Welcome
Small Ideas Big Future • Satish Kumar
Social justice, environment and peace are more important than ever
Frontline
Apple Tops Greenpeace Gadget Survey • Lorna Howarth
The environmental impact of hi-tech gadgets
Building Blocks from Bags • Lillian Sum
Making building blocks from plastics in India
The House that Waste Built • Lorna Howarth
Strategies for building low-energy, permanent buildings from waste material
Action From the Grass Roots • Lorna Howarth
Grass roots initiatives around the globe
Festival of Wellbeing • Greg Neale
Soil, soul and making connections
Ecologist
Trust the People • Sarah Beattie-Smith
The Scottish independence campaign has reawakened the thirst for localism and democracy
Devolution: The Cities Are Ready and Waiting • George Ferguson
The mayor of Bristol argues for greater urban autonomy
A Handful of Hope • Angus Reid
A poetic project that gives voice to a people's constitution
Time for a Constitutional Convention • Rupert Read & Rebecca Johnson
A citizen-led constitution is needed to give real power to the people
The News Where You Are • James Robertson
Reflecting on media alienation
A Crisis This Big Changes Everything • Oliver Tickell
Naomi Klein outlines the need for radical change
Fossil Fuels: The Toxic Relationship • Max Lawson
Calling for an end to pollution subsidies
We Are Soil • Vandana Shiva
The need for organic stewardship
It's Anything But Dirt • Craig Sams
A holistic approach to the science of soil
My Green Life • Sharon Garfinkel
An interview with Eric Schlosser, author of Fast Food Nation
Quotes
The Tree • William Blake
Extract from a William Blake poem
Keynotes
Lost For Words • David W. Orr
A plea for the appreciation of language, literature and the use of well-crafted words
Undercurrents
The Market is the New Religion • Jeremy Seabrook
Apologists for unbridled capitalism overlook it's ancestry and its limitations
Every Little Helps • Ros Coward
Lifestyle changes can all add up
Ethical Living
The Buddha and the Sacred Earth • Rob Burbea
Examining Buddhist attitudes to Nature
On Trial: A Way of Life • Adam Weymouth
A community fighting against climate change in Alaska
Words of Power • Matt Harvey
Poetry inspired by renewable energy
When the Grass is Not Greener • Jane Hurst
Planting an alternative to the traditional lawn
Sourdough - but oh, so sweet • Susan Clark
A recipe for making sourdough bread
A Tribute to David Nicholson-Lord • Greg Neale
Reflecting on the work of regular contributor and author of Up the Elephant Round the Castle
Regulars
Letters to the Editors
A selection of letters to our editors
Crossword • Timothy Bonsor
A brain teaser full of ecological clues
Poetry - One Spade of Earth • Peter Abbs
New translations by Martyn Crucefix
The Arts
Music Is My Religion • Satish Kumar
An interview with Amjad Ali Khan, India's master of the sarod
Nature Through the Lens
The Wildlife Photographer of the Year exhibition
Art - By the People, For the People • Fiona MacCarthy
A new exhibition on the visionary William Morris
A Treasure Cave of Sacred Geometry • Ian Skelly
Understanding Nature's patterns through the teaching of geometry
Reviews
The Prophet of Gaia • Stephan Harding
Review of A Rough Ride to the Future
Hawk on the Wild Side • Tony Juniper
Review of H is for Hawk
Shared Wealth Need Not Be Lost • Pat Conaty
Review of Think Like a Commoner: A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons
The Answer Lies in the Soil • Matt Dunwell
Review of The Soil Will Save Us: How Scientists, Farmers, and Foodies Are Healing the Soil to Save the Planet
Speaking Up For Fish and Bees • Russell Warfield
Review of Farmageddon: The True Cost of Cheap Meat
Feet First • Ralph Pite
Review of A Philosophy of Walking
Wise Old Codgers • Lindsay Clarke
Review of Proteus and the Magician: The Letters of Henry Miller and John Cowper Powys
Web Exclusives
Article - A Guardian Landscape • Gay Watson
Exploring a new sculpture garden in Cornwall
Article - Remembering Bhopal • Vandana Shiva
Bhopal marks a political, economic and legal watershed for India and the planet.
Review - Doing - with consciousness • Alex Haxeltine
Review of The Unselfish Spirit: Human Evolution in a Time of Global Crisis
