Resurgence & Ecologist magazine Issue 299 • November/December 2016

Brave New Worlds

Inside this issue

Welcome

Making A Better World • Greg Neale

We need courage, curiosity, effort - and to learn our limits

Frontline

Energy News • Kara Moses

Updates on renewable energy and plans to phase out fossil fuels

Giant Boom Plan to Mop Up Ocean Waste • Kara Moses

An innovative way to deal with plastics in the world's oceans

News from the Grassroots • Greg Neale

Environmental news from around the globe

Sri Lanka Protects Mangrove Forests • Oliver Tickell

Introducing legislation to ensure the survival of mangrove forests

Conservationists Urge Action to Halt Decline in Wildlife • Greg Neale

Calling on the British government to do more to protect Nature

Richard Neville • Greg Neale

A tribute to the founder of Oz magazine

Ecologist

Echoes of War Amid The Sound of Nightingales • Paul Evans

A nature reserve has flourished on the Hoo Peninsula, once home to the military

Going Against the Grain • Oliver Tickell

An insight into the work of agricultural revolutionary John Letts, the farmer of lost seeds

We Need New Mythologies to Face the Environmental Crisis • Alex Evans

To deal with the environmental crisis we need more than strong policies

Exterminating the Amaranth • Vandana Shiva

A valuable species of nutrition is at risk from GM technologies

Keynotes

Brave New Worlds • Nicole Pohl

500 years since Utopia the appeal of an ideal community still grips our imagination

Undercurrents

Greens Must Get Going • Jonathon Porritt

Environmentalists must take the initiative to secure protection for the environment post Brexit

Beyond Brexit, Look Locally For Hope • Helena Norberg-Hodge

Localisation can heal the traumas of globalisation

Small is Still Beautiful • Paul Kingsnorth

Progressive green thinkers have been seduced by the EU and bypassed by a modern day Peasants' Revolt

Local Democracy is Neither Local Nor Democratic in Scotland • Sarah Beattie-Smith

So far devolution has concentrated, not diffused, power in Scotland

Ethical Living

Madness, Myth and Metaphor • Jay Griffiths

Manic depression can reveal profound poetic truth

A Quieter Voice • Matt Harvey

A poem inspired by the Quakers

Turkish Human Rights Lawyer Faces Jail • Greg Neale

An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International

Glass Full of Meaning • Satish Kumar

Philip Baldwin and Monica Guggisberg artists in glass

The Bigger Picture • Leo Johnson

Reflections on scarcity, abundance and essentials

Greatness Through Humility • Bill Devall

Extract from an interview first published in the March/April 2000 issue of Resurgence

Lessons in a jacket • Julia Ponsonby

The seasonal virtues and cultural history of the potato

The Arts

Seeing the Wood for the Trees • India Windsor-Clive

Reporting on an arts project set in the forest

A Calling for the Wild • Emma Crichton-Miller

The landscape paintings of Tony Foster

Regulars

Poetry - Rhythms of the Seasons, Power of Place • Peter Abbs

An appreciation of Thomas Hardy's poetry

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our Editors

Reviews

Seeing the World Half Empty • Michael McCarthy

Review of Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight For Life

Living to the Full • Ginny Battson

Review of The Abundance

Journeys With a Magical Healer • Catrina Davies

Review of Quentin Blake: In the Theatre of the Imagination - An Artist at Work

Wake Up and Smell the Food Fraud • Tom Levitt

Review of Bread, Wine, Chocolate and Sorting the Beef from the Bull

Walking Into Illumination • Hugo Davenport

Review of Six Facets of Light

Still Spinning • Russell Warfield

Review of Connect: How Companies Succeed by Engaging Radically with Society

Web Exclusives

Article - Reflections of Land and Labour • James Clarke

The daily meditations of nature writer Stewart Collis

Article - Man of Vision • Jonathan Walpole

The ecological and spiritual philosophy of Aldous Huxley

Article - Green Thinking By The Sea • Sophie Poklewski Koziell

A Cornish hotel balancing luxury and comfort with sustainable and ecological principles

Review - Between Fiction and Reality • Nicole Pohl

Review of A Utopia Like Any Other: Inside the Swedish Model