Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 290 • May/June 2015

Becoming Barbarian

Inside this issue

Welcome

A Radical Resurgence • Greg Neale

Yesterday, today and tomorrow - welcome to fresh thinking

Frontline

More Meaningful Work • Greg Neale

Britons want more meaningful work and greener industry

News from the Grassroots • Greg Neale

Reports from around the world

Beaver Colony Reprieved • Greg Neale

Devon Wildlife Trust secures the return of beavers

Environmental Tensions in the Arctic • Greg Neale

New environmental tensions emerge in Alaska

Ecologist

Arming Big Business • Caroline Lucas

How Lobbying is taking over our politics

Worldwatcher With A Warning • Greg Neale

Water shortages and food instability loom says 'green godfather' Lester Brown

TTIP or Democracy? • Michael Meacher

The dangers inherent in the proposed new EU-US trade agreement

New Paradigms For Farming • Vandana Shiva

We must abandon misleading concepts based on the idea of agriculture as war against the land

Thinking Like Water • Glenn Aparicio Parry

Dwindling supplies of water are increasingly being monopolised by big business

Keynotes

Becoming Barbarian • Stephen Harrod Buhner

Exploring the true meaning of 'barbarian' and challenging concepts of civilisation

Undercurrents

The True Temple Within Your Heart • Lama Lhakpa Yeshe

A Tibetan Parable

Building For Belonging • Kim Samuel

City planning must focus on ending social isolation

Plants Before Pills • Sebastian Pole

We need to reconnect with natural food and medicine

The Woman Who Chose to Plant Corn • Charles Eisenstein

Applauding a change of direction

The New Radicalism • Leopold Kohr

Resurgence at 50: a classic article reprinted from May 1966

1966: A Brave Beginning • Greg Neale

The first issue of Resurgence explored radical ideas on peace, humanity and society

Ethical Living

The Glorious Way Forward • Leo Johnson

Diary column

Food For Free • Ros Coward

Bringing the fashion for foraged food into question

Radical Love • Satish Kumar

Love sustains humanity

How Steiner's Seeds Came to Crop • Jane Scotter & Harry Astley

Biodynamic growing inspires a new recipe book from the farm kitchen

I Got Algorithm • Matt Harvey

Crowdfunding for the Transition Towns musical brings insights into human behaviour

Disappeared On A City Street • Greg Neale

Amnesty International appeal

Regulars

Poetry - Visions of An Ecological Prophet • Peter Abbs

The work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our editors

Crossword • Timothy Bonsor

A brain teaser full of ecological clues

The Arts

Rocking All Over The World • India Windsor-Clive

An interview with sculptor Stephen Cox

Watching Me, Watching You • Sarah Wood

A filmmaking project exploring how we see Nature and ourselves in today's surveillance society

Reviews

Words of Wonder • Caspar Henderson

Review of Landmarks

At The Edge Of Our Imagination • Miriam Darlington

Review of The High Oak: A Journey across Dartmoor

In Search of Place • Adam Thorpe

Review of Rising Ground: A Search for Spirit of Place

A Divine Child, A Dynastic Massacre • Christine Toomey

Review of The Living Goddess: A Journey into the Heart of Kathmandu

A Convivial Conversation • Peter Reason

Review of Distant Neighbors: The Selected Letters of Wendell Berry and Gary Snyder

Sailing To Save The Planet • Paul Brown

Review of Rainbow Warriors: Legendary Stories from Greenpeace Ships

A Passion For Peace • Satish Kumar

Review of Betrand Russell: A Pacifist At War

Web Exclusives

Article - The Biotic Pump We Ignore At Our Peril • Peter Bunyard

A new theory on rainfall patterns and why deforestation could disrupt them

Review - Grains of Truth • Jini Reddy

Review of Sacred Seed

Review - Four Steps To Hope • Pat Conaty

Review of Realizing Hope: Life Beyond Capitalism