We Need New Stories

Contents

Welcome

New Hope in a Changing World • Greg Neale

Beyond the bad news, there are stirrings of inspiring possibility

Frontline

One Step Forward • Lorna Howarth

Mixed news for bird conservation

Right Livelihood Award • Lorna Howarth

Bill McKibben honoured for his work to create a better world

President Backs Peat Forest Preservation • Lorna Howarth

Protecting peat forests in Indonesia

Action From the Grass Roots • Lorna Howarth

Grass roots initiatives around the globe

Nonviolent Peaceforce • Lorna Howarth

Small-scale interventions help prevent conflicts around the world

Victory for the Yukon Campaigners • Lorna Howarth

Update on the campaign to protect a vast wilderness in Canada

Police Target Journalists as 'Extremists' • Adrian Arbib

Environment photographer Adrian Arbib on the new pressures on the press

Ecologist

Warning: Don't Take the Bee out of Business • Tony Juniper

The importance of pollinators for food, farming and the economy

Wait and See Life Returning • Isabella Tree

A pioneering project in rewilding

Boxing Clever With Horse Power • Andrew Wasley

Reporting on a local, sustainable food scheme that doesn't depend on fossil fuels

Japan's Farewell to Arms • Peter Popham

The country's opposition to militarism is deep rooted

Keeping the Environment in Focus • Russell Warfield

A profile of the Green Alliance

Keynotes

We Need New Stories • Jonathan Dawson

Society needs new narratives

Putting A New Vision Together • Jini Reddy

A recent summit at Findhorn focused on New Stories for our time

Undercurrents

Only Connect • Andy Atkins

Joining the dots between environment, development and human rights

Dissolving the Bonds of Welfare • Jeremy Seabrook

Further public spending cuts are planned for the welfare state

Fire and Ice • Robert Macfarlane

The elemental appeal of the Cairngorms

Ethical Living

Unconditional Empathy • Satish Kumar

Friendship is the organising principle of life

Fruit of the Vine • Leo Johnson

Introducing a new diary column

Shoes for the Feet and Mind • Lama Lhakpa Yeshe

A Tibetan parable

A Mystic For Our Time • Matthew Fox

The ideas of Meister Eckhart inspire today's eco-warriors

Appealing for Yolanda • Greg Neale

Solidarity with an activist

The Green Wine Revolution • Robin Lee

Organic wine is booming

Mouths Full of the Future • Susie Weldon & Sue Campbell

The food we eat should reflect our faith and values

Regulars

Poetry - Witnessing, and Warning • Peter Abbs

Contemporary eco-poems

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our editors

Crossword • Timothy Bonsor

A brain teaser full of ecological clues

The Arts

Journey Through Not Knowing • Simon Ripley

Printmaking and mental health

Bringing the Arts Down To Earth • Clive Adams

An arts project that supports the soil

Back to A Land • Greg Neale

A major exhibition of work by Henry Moore

Reviews

The Growth Delusion • Jonathon Porritt

Review of Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet

Pantomime, But No Laughing Matter • Russell Warfield

Review of This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate

Putting Our Heads in the Sand • Paul Brown

Review of Don't Even Think About It: Why Our Brains are Wired to Ignore Climate Change

When Promises of Progress Fail Us • Dougald Hine

Review of Grassroots Postmodernism, and The Future of Development

A Question of a Good Story • Lindsay Clarke

Review of Restoring the Soul of the World: Our Living Bond with Nature's Intelligence

Teach Yourself Wisdom • Giles Barrow

Review of The Beautiful Risk of Education

Still Hoping, Still Suffering • Arun Narayan Toké

Review of Nicaragua: Surviving the Legacy of U.S. Policy

Seeing the Wood for the Trees • Val Hennessy

Review of The Wisdom of Trees

Web Exclusives

Article - You Can't Kill The Spirit • Kia Scherr

Reflecting on the Mumbai attack of 2008

Review - The News Behind the News • Paul Matthews

Review of Monuments

Review - Returning the Heart to the Hearth • Julia Ponsonby

Review of The Art of Mindful Baking

Article - Free Speech, the Media and the Roots of Violence • Barbara Soros

The attacks in Paris raise far more questions than those about free speech