Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 297 • July/August 2016
Natural Healing

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Inside this issue

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Welcome

Only Connect •

Making connections is essential to thinking holistically

Frontline

Satish Kumar's New Role •

Resurgence & Ecologist's editor-in-chief to become Editor Emeritus

Birthday Celebration for Resurgence •

Supporters gathered to pay tribute to Resurgence at London event in May

Prince of Wales and Alan Rushbridger join conference speakers •

Update on Resurgence 50th Birthday event in Oxford, September 2016

Climate Campaigners Target Fossil Fuel Industry in Mass Protest •

UK's largest opencast mine shut down by demonstrators

News from the Grassroots •

Environmental news from around the globe

Fish & Rice Farming May Combat Food Poverty •

Report on a new ecologically based agriculture

Ecologist

Rich Country, Poor Country •

A new manifesto for the countryside

I'm Just So Scared. This Isn't What I Do •

Joining together to protest at one of the world's largest open-cast coal mines

The Nature Reserve Built Through Facebook •

How a local community came together to protect wildlife

Europe's Rotten Wood •

One of the last great forests in Europe is under threat

Inequality Threatens the Planet •

Consumption patterns fuel climate change

Keynotes

Just Join the Dots •

Preserving the planet also means helping the poor

Quotes

If the Earth Were Only A Few Feet In Diameter •

Reflection from Joe Miller's poem written in 1975

Undercurrents

Big Problems Need Small Solutions •

The logic of largeness devalues the personal

The Undercurrent Years •

Recalling the early years of ‘The magazine of alternative science and technology’

Hands Across the Seas •

Volunteering to help refugees fleeing conflict in the Middle East

Ethical Living

Worried? Don't Lose Your Head •

On immortality, axes and the gifts of the gods

Journalist Freed From Jail •

Amnesty International Appeal

Making Peace With the Planet •

Exploring the environmental teachings of the Jain religion

In Praise of Picnic Power •

Enjoying the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of eating al fresco

The Art of Finding Light in Darkness •

Reflecting on the stories we need to hear

Scoff and Nonsense •

Why less is more

The Arts

Seeing the World in a Flower •

A new exhibition of work by American artist Georgia O'Keeffe opens at Tate Modern

The Studio That's Also A Sanctuary •

Profiling a pioneering arts iniative in Bristol

The Artist Who Drew With the Sun •

Roger Ackling's relationship with Nature was key to his creation of intense, meditative art

Regulars

Poetry - Nature's Eye and Tongue •

The extraordinary poems of Emily Dickinson

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters from our readers

Crossword •

A brainteaser full of ecological clues

Reviews

Music to Free the Soul •

Review of Experiencing Music - Restoring the Spiritual: Music as Well-being

Through Paradox To New Paradigm •

Review of Time, Light and the Dice of Creation: Through Paradox in Physics to a New Order

We Have The Means, But Not the Leaders •

Review of Atmosphere of Hope: Solutions to the Climate Crisis

The Man Who Discovered the World •

Review of The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt - The Lost Hero of Science

A Patch of Altered States •

Review of Common Ground

A Long and Winding Road •

Review of The Jeweled Highway: On the Quest for a Life of Meaning

Getting Into Hot Waters •

Review of The Boiling River: Adventures and Discovery in the Amazon

Web Exclusives

Article - A Sanctuary for Nature •

The Ecological benefits of the landscapes designed by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown

Review - Cry for the Earth •

Review of Neil Young at London O2 Arena