Regenerative Cities

Contents

Welcome

Moving On • Greg Neale

A record-holding Editor leaves an important legacy

Frontline

Nuclear Waste Stockpile • Greg Neale

Sellafield waste continues to pose threat

News from the Grassroots • Greg Neale

Environmental news from around the globe

Renewable Energy Triumphs • Kara Moses

Updates on renewable energy, oil and gas plans and fracking

On Tour with Neil Young • Will Gethin

Resurgence joins a 'global village' to spread environmental message

Britain Could Ban Plastic Microbeads • Oliver Tickell

Following legislation in the US, Britain reviews regulations on microbeads

Green Thoughts • Liz Ware

Introducing the Silent Space project happening in UK gardens this summer

Ecologist

A is for Agro-Industry • Oliver Tickell

The fluctuating fortunes of bees - a key species for our countryside and our food

Trunk Call • Greg Neale

Hamish John Appleby's new book considers the emotional lives of elephants

We Are Sleepwalking into Catastrophe • Mark Goldring

Unless we tackle runaway inequality, disaster awaits

The Man Who Stood Up For Nature • Michael McCarthy

A tribute to pioneering ecologist George Perkins Marsh

Nature on Holy Ground • Miles King

The wide eco-values of churchyards

Keynotes

Towards The Regenerative City • Herbert Girardet

Reforming urban life is essential for a sustainable future

Undercurrents

Heisenberg: Explorer of Imagination • Fritjof Capra

The continuing influence of Werner Heisenberg, 40 years on

Listening to the Spirit of Place • Matthew Shaw

Sound artist Matthew Shaw urges us to be still and hear who we really are

Nature's Riches • Robert Brady

Memoirs from life on a remote Japanese mountainside

Just So Much, and No More • Donella Meadows

Edited extract from the Resurgence archive, first published in 2002

Nature and Imagination • Vanessa Sheehan

We need to change the relationship between people and planet

Ethical Living

Knowledge Requires Life Experience • Satish Kumar

Education should not be all about facts

Turning the Pages • Greg Neale

Satish Kumar looks back on 43 years at the helm of Resurgence

The Light and the Dark • Leo Johnson

In search of illumination

Israel accused over Palestinan activist's detention • Greg Neale

An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International

A Turbulent Priest for Peace, Nature and our Time • Matthew Fox

The life of radical theologian Thomas Merton

Portminting • Matt Harvey

Declutterati anyone?

Food for Thought, Memories for Living • Antara Mukherji

Lessons from my grandmother's kitchen

The Arts

Dancing Towards the Point of Bliss • Satish Kumar

An interview with Miti Desai, classical Indian dancer, designer and teacher

Seeds of Hope • Sue Steward

A photographic chronicle of conservation

The Healing Notes of Nature • Nicola Harrison

The songs of Ivor Gurney, a composer scarred by war

Don't Turn your Nose Up At Fragrance • Simon Constantine

Perfumery is an art form

Regulars

Poetry - Poets of the Anthropocene • Peter Abbs

New poetry for our uncertain age

Poetry - A Seeker Reaching To Extremes • Jonathan Colchester

The writings of R S Thomas

Letters to the Editors • Paul Brown

A selection of letters to our Editors

Reviews

Saving the World May Not Be So Easy • Jonathon Porritt

Review of Designing Regenerative Cultures

We Need To Cut Ourselves Some Slack • David Boyle

Review of Surviving the Future: Culture, Carnival and Capital in the Aftermath of the Market Economy

Myths for the Near Future • Edward Davey

Review of Eden 2.0: Climate Change and the Search for a 21st Century Myth

Back to the Roots • Patrick Holden

Review of Six Steps Back to the Land: Why We Still Need Small Mixed Farms and Millions More Farmers

The Answer Lies In The Soil • Satish Kumar

Review of Who Really Feeds The World? The Failures of Agribusiness and the Promise of Agroecology

Last Word From a Woodland Sage • Hugo Davenport

Review of The Ash Tree

Web Exclusives

Article - Local Economies: Tipping the Scale • Helena Norberg-Hodge

The beauty of economic localisation

Article - Schumacher College at Twenty-Five • Satish Kumar

Celebrating 25 years of the college as a remarkable place of learning

Review - Chants Encounter • Christine Toomey

Review of The Buddha in Me, The Buddha in You