The Way of the Garden
Issue 306 • January/February 2018
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Welcome
A Time to Take Stock • Greg Neale
Reflections on the year and future plans
Frontline
Stop Funding Hate • Marianne Brown
Persuading companies to drop advertising in companies that give voice to discrimination
News From the Grassroots • Marianne Brown
A round up of environmental news from around the globe
Political Cartoonist Detained • Greg Neale
An appeal on behalf of Amnesty International
Support Grows for Our Planned New Home • Greg Neale
Reporting on our appeal to set up a Resurgence centre for education, environment and arts
Resurgence Poetry Prize Winner • Greg Neale
Seán Hewitt wins the annual Resurgence prize for his poem Ilex
Ecologist
Turning Bed Sheets into Banners • Philip Ackerman-Leist
A mountain community turns back the tide of industrial agriculture
Living Well in the Non-materialist World • Oliver Tickell
An interview with scientific 'heretic' Rupert Sheldrake
Mistletoe and Other Parasites • Kate Blincoe
Not all bloodsuckers are bad for your health
Charting a Course Towards Clean Energy • Marianne Brown
An inventor could turn the tide for a local fishing industry
Keynotes
Mystery and the Way of the Garden • David E Cooper
Exploring the transformational power of cultivation
Undercurrents
A Call for Regeneration • Herbert Girardet
We need to move beyond sustainable development to help heal the Earth's ecosystems
Diversity Keeps a High Street Alive • Naomi Canton
Small traders defying the advance of online and supermarket shopping in their town
We Want Local Democracy - and our Dignity • Jordi Pigem
Catalonia's drive to break from Madrid is a step towards decentralisation and empowerment
Family Planning Makes for a Healthy Ecosystem • David Johnson & Carina Hirsh
Reproductive health and rights play an important role in conservation
Ethical Living
The Power of Love • Satish Kumar
Extolling the virtues of the 'greatest religion on Earth'
Future Perfect? • Leo Johnson
Local solutions - and chestnuts
The Good Goodbye • Matt Harvey
Funeral rites and wrongs
Reef Encounters • Leo Barasi
How tropical fish made climate change personal
A Reflection in Liquid Pearl • Peter Reason
On the ephemeral beauty of dewdrops
The Arts
Chronicler of Country Life • Richard Westcott
The rural photography of James Ravillious
Regulars
Poetry - Headland and Heartland • Peter Abbs
A collaboration of poet and photographer on England's eastern shore
Letters to the Editors
A selection of letters to our Editors
Reviews
Joining Hands at Standing Rock • Huw Wahl
Review of Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock (film review)
A CALL FOR SCREEN PROTECTION • Lynne Wycherley
Review of Generation Zapped (film review)
Books of the Year
Review of A rich selection of books on topics as diverse as futurology, Nature writing, politics and poetry
Drawn by the Wind and the Waves • Hugo Davenport
Review of Risingtidefallenstar
A 3D Future is Missing a Dimension • Helena Norberg-Hodge
Review of From Global to Local: the Making of Things and the End of Globalization
Pedalling on a Bumpy Road • Matt Kendall
Review of Bike Boom: The Unexpected Resurgence of Cycling
Beyond Words • Peter Reason
Review of Senses of Mystery: Engaging with Nature and the Meaning of Life
Web Exclusives
Article - Geese, Peat and a Thread of Healing • Karine Polwart
Songs inspired by Nature
Article - On the Beach • Stanislav Shmelev
Ideas to protect small islands
Article - The Monstrous Regiment of Corporations • Richard Forsyth
Putting forward a case to curb corporations
Article - We Need Love to Save the Amazon • Karina Miotto
Why we need to make an emotional attachment to conservation