Manifesto for A Green Mind

Contents

Welcome

Speaking Peace and Working for It • Greg Neale

Nonviolent campaigning can trump violence - here's how

Frontline

Aviation Set To Take Up Half Britain's Carbon Budget • Kara Moses

Campaigners say figures show the need for curbs on growth

Building For the Future - New Solar Tiles and Windows • Kara Moses

Advances in technology are moving solar energy into the mainstream

News from the Grassroots • Greg Neale & Kara Moses

A round up of environmental news stories

Tree Fellings Prompt Protests In City Streets and Tweets • Natalie Bennett

A controversial programme to remove trees in Sheffield sparks opposition

Peace Museums Gather for Belfast Conference • Clive Barrett

The 'International Network of Museums for Peace' celebrates its 25th anniversary

Resurgence News and Events • Greg Neale

New talks in London, information on the summer camp and an update on the Resurgence auction

Ecologist

Planting Seeds of Resistance and Renewal • Thembi Mutch

Janet Maro is an East African agricultural campaigner making things happen

Soft Songs That Can Yet Sound A New Dawn • Mark Constantine

British birdsong is a delight to be treasured

Put a Drag on the Rag Trade • Ros Coward

Applying the same values to fashion as we do to food would have a huge impact

Manifesto for the Green Mind • Jules Pretty

Calling for a revolution to bring Nature into our lives

Turning the Tide in a Desert War • Oliver Tickell

Zoologist Susan Canney helps Malian communities fight land degradation and poaching to preserve endangered elephants

Keynotes

The Path of Peace is Rocky, But Still Open • Mark Kurlansky

The prospects for nonviolence in a seemingly more dangerous world

Undercurrents

The Fight For Beauty • Fiona Reynolds

Conservation campaigning is essential for our spiritual as well as our environmental survival

Sweden Begins The Shift From Fast to Thrift • Richard Orange

A project to repair, rather than replace, old goods is reducing consumerism

Fragile, Forbidding - But Sacred • Adrian Cooper

The spiritual case for conserving the world's highest regions

Ethical Living

Down The Road • Leo Johnson

Peering through pollution at possible futures

Uighur Rights Activist Faces Life Sentence • Greg Neale

An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International

A Scent of Renewal For the Fragrant Harbour • Satish Kumar

Fresh shoots are emerging amidst the consumerist bustle of Hong Kong

Washed Up, and Loving It • Matt Harvey

The tidal romance of Tilly and Cliff

The Fragile Flavours of Hope • Varuni Wimalasiri & Abhi Phatak

Reflections on the personal and culinary triumphs of women who survived the civil war in Sri Lanka

Quotes

The World is Rich • Ben Okri

A poem from 'Wild' by Ben Okri

The Arts

Fresh Ways of Seeing and Feeling • India Windsor-Clive

A major new exhibition on David Hockney opens at Tate Britain

I Think of It Like a Spray From An Ocean Wave • Jini Reddy

Nitin Sawhney, musician and activist, talks about his life

An Artist Renewed By Time, Earth and Place • Emma Crichton-Miller

A profile of Brian Rice

Regulars

Poetry - Time to Kiss the Earth again • Peter Abbs

Celebrating the long-neglected Robinson Jeffers

Letters to the Editors

A selection of letters to our Editors

Reviews

The System is Broken. What's Next? • David Greenhalgh

Review of Postcapitalism: A Guide To Our Future

A Walk, and Talk, On The Wild Side • Madeleine Bunting

Review of Poacher's Pilgrimage: An Island Journey

A Nonviolent Fighter For Rights • Satish Kumar

Review of Action! A Cleric off the Leash

Our Place in Space and Time • Peter Ainsworth

Review of Human Ecology: How Nature and Culture Shaped Our World

Better Together? • Russell Warfield

Review of The Alternative: Towards a New progressive Politics

Through Glass, Brightly • Charles Clover

Review of A Sea of Glass: Searching For the Blaschkas' Fragile Legacy in an Ocean of Risk

Without Them, We're Dead • Michael McCarthy

Review of What Have Plants Ever Done For Us? Western Civilization in Fifty Plants

Home Sweet Eco-Home • Hallam Girardet

Review of Eco-Homes: People, Place and Politics

Web Exclusives

Article - Striving for Independence - What Is It About? • Ana Stanič

Raül Romeva, the Catalan Minister of Foreign Affairs, explains the reasons behind the calls for Catalan independence

Article - Regenerative Business • Giles Hutchins

Finding ways to change business and industry to create a new, ecologically sustainable future

Review - Be Kind To Our Kind • David Dobereiner

Review of Animal (De)liberation: Should the Consumption of Animal Products Be Banned?