Days of Hope

Contents

Welcome

A Milestone on Our Journey • Greg Neale

Reflections on 50 years of Resurgence

Frontline

50th Anniversary Event • Fiona Fraser-Smith

Worcester College, Oxford, hosts One Earth, One Humanity, One Future

The Microplastic Threat to Our Oceans • Ana Stanič

Reporting on a women's expedition to assess pollution in the tropical Atlantic

News from the Grassroots • Greg Neale

Reports from around the world

Probe Alpha Protest Launches Into Space • Bradley Garrett

Reclaiming a city's open spaces

Ecologist

Why I Risked Jail for My Beliefs • Kara Moses

Environmental protester, Kara Moses, explains the convictions that led her to occupy an airport runway

COP-out in Paris? • Herbert Girardet

Reflecting on the shortcomings of the climate change deal

Gandhi's Ghani • Vandana Shiva

India's farmers face a new threat - to traditional oil-pressing

Resurgence50

A Voice for Our Times • James Sainsbury

The message of Resurgence is as important as ever

Days of Hope and False Dawns • Geoffrey Lean

50 years of environmental change

In the Beginning Were the Words • Greg Neale

Poet and campaigner Michael Horovitz recalls the birth of Resurgence

Founding Figures and Guiding Lights • Greg Neale

Profiled: some remarkable contributors to the Resurgence story

Hold the Front Page • Greg Neale

Memorable covers from our early days

Sharing Our Views of the World • Jonathon Porritt

Reflecting on a much-needed forum for intellectual exchange

The Challenges Ahead • Bill McKibben, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Jeremy Seabrook, Herbert Girardet & Craig Bennett

Bill McKibben, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Jeremy Seabrook, Herbert Girardet and Craig Bennett on the coming agenda for environmentalists and campaigners for social justice

Undercurrents

Buddhist Economics • E F Schumacher

Marking our half-century, a reprint of the classic essay by E F Schumacher

A Year in Fragments • Roger Deakin

Extracts from newly published notes by the naturalist Roger Deakin with an introduction by Robert Macfarlane

Ethical Living

War is Hell: We Must Stop It • Satish Kumar

We can enjoy Tolstoy's great story, but we should also heed his message

Hops and Dreams • Leo Johnson

Sharing a vision for the future

Indonesian Religious Minority Forced From Their Homes • Greg Neale

Amnesty International Appeal

Finding A Balance • Ella Woodward

Advocating a more holistic attitude towards food

Dark Mutter • Matt Harvey

A word of subatomic warning for the scientists

Austerity is Not a Dirty Word • Ros Coward

Campaigns against spending cuts must not imply a return to unsustainable economic growth

The Arts

An Eye Born Of Sky, Light and Sea • John Francis

The paintings of Jon Schueler

Natural Magic • Sue Steward

The photography of William Henry Fox Talbot

Regulars

Poetry - Who Owns the Field? • Peter Abbs

New poetry by Jane Clarke

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters from our readers

Crossword • Tim Bonsor

A brainteaser full of ecological clues

Reviews

Putting Plants in their Proper Place • Michael McCarthy

Review of The Cabaret of Plants: Botany and the Imagination

One Touch of Nature • Horatio Morpurgo

Review of Shakespeare and Ecology

Going With the Grain • Hugo Davenport

Review of The Man Who Made Things out of Trees

Feats of Clay • Simon Olding

Review of The White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts

Rites to Touch the Sacred • Sebastian Kelly

Review of Re-enchanting the Forest: Meaningful Ritual in a Secular World

Slashing, Burning, Learning? • Russell Warfield

Review of Foragers, Farmers and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve

Web Exclusives

Review - The Coming of the Greens • Rupert Read & Bennet Francis

Review of Green Parties, Green Future: From Local Government to the International Stage