Issue 258 • January/February 2010
Liberty
Welcome
Liberty is Natural • Satish Kumar
Now is the time to embrace liberty together with equality and fraternity.
Frontline
Actions Speak Louder than Words • Lorna Howarth
Climate Change activists celebrate two major victories.
Low-Carbon Countries • Lorna Howarth
Guyana's call to action for climate resilience and low-carbon development.
Care Farming • Lorna Howarth
An innovative and cost-effective service with positive benefits for the entire community.
Fashion's New Model • Lorna Howarth
The handloom and cotton field can be at the heart of rural regeneration.
Undercurrents
NHS - A Natural Health Service • William Bird
For optimum health go out in Nature and walk every day.
Strides Towards Sustainability • Helen Yaffe
Cuba's successful models of sustainable development are being widely replicated in Latin America.
Beyond Copenhagen • Stephen Hale
Why our leaders are failing us, and why, collectively, we now need a far broader and deeper global movement for change.
Keynotes
Facing the Future • HRH The Prince of Wales
We need to see Nature's capital and her processes as the basis of a new form of economics and engage communities at the grass roots.
Quotes
Less is More • Matt Harvey
Can less be more, can more be less?
The Power of Now • Eckhart Tolle
Without a profound change in human consciousness, the world's suffering is a bottomless pit.
Liberty
Freedom • Philip Pullman
The award-winning novelist shares much of his philosophy of liberty with visionary artist William Blake.
Freedom is a Gift • Michael Edwards
Liberty has both a personal and social dimension.
Open Liberty • Tony Curzon Price
Equality should be an essential condition of freedom.
Police and Protestors • Tilly Gifford, Leo Murray & Dan Glass
It is now time to ask what constitutes appropriate policing of peaceful protest.
Biocultural Diversity
Balancing Act • Angela Robson
In parts of Siberia, a resurgence in nomadic traditions competes with the lure of contemporary life.
The Arts
In Service of the Earth • Stephan Harding
Ecological artist Deirdre Hyde leaves an impressive legacy in Costa Rica.
Age of Enchantment • Anthony Nanson
An Ecobardic Manifesto heralds a new paradigm where the arts provide a different kind of cultural leadership.
Extreme Knitting • Sandy Brown
The quiet revolution that raises novelty knitting to an art form.
Regulars
Poetry - Genius Loci • Peter Abbs
Poet Lesley Saunders is inspired by William Kent's garden at Rousham, Oxford.
Short Story - No Trumpets Needed • Michael Morpurgo
An uplifting short story from the former Children's Laureate.
Nature Writers - Fragility and Hope • Miriam Darlington
How the tale of Tarka the Otter lives on and reminds us all of the importance of water conservation.
Voice From The South - Swaraj: A Deeper Freedom • Vandana Shiva
Mahatma Gandhi's vision of right livelihood is as relevant now as it was then.
Recipes - Gazpacho and Coffee • Guy Watson
If we can bring together growing food and cooking, the results will be radical.
Transition Time - Communal Sufficiency • Mark Boyle
In the last of the series on Mark Boyle's adventures in a post-oil, post-money world, he advocates interdependent living.
A Sense of Place - An Island of Peace • Gail Simmons
On a holy island with no distractions, the only think you are left with is time and space to just 'be'.
Letters to the Editors - Artificial Entanglement
Members' Page - The Need for New Leaders • Ian Tennant
Reviews
Soul Power • Scilla Elworthy
Soul Power: An Agenda for a Conscious Humanity.
Moral Analysis • Jack Santa Barbara
Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy.
Green Agenda • John Elkington & Peter Bunyard
The Constant Economy: How to Build a Stable Society.
Do Not Be Afraid • Sophie Poklewski Koziell
The Art of Dying | Gentle Dying: The Simple Guide to Achieving a Peaceful Death.
Solidarity Stories • Chellis Glendinning
Dignity and Defiance: Stories from Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization.
We Are All Related • Samual Bendeck Sotillos
Of the Land and the Spirit: The Essential Lord Northbourne on Ecology and Religion.
Web Exclusives
Article - Reclaiming Love • Lorna Howarth
Disconnecting beloved tradition from the grip of consumer culture.
Article - Holy Water • Lorna Howarth
Addressing the many challenges to India's watercourses.
Article - Two Sides To The Story • Lorna Howarth
Sending an email can be more dangerous to the environment than posting a letter.
Article - Hunger for Meaning • Nick Kettles
Social responsibility within organisations emerges through recognition of the complex relationships between individuals.
Article - Liberty in the Network Age • Bill Thompson
Freedom to code, like the freedom to own and use a printing press, should now be included as a vital component of freedom of expression.
Article - A Modern Mystic • Clare Dakin
Sadhguru, an Indian spiritual teacher, integrates spirituality, ecological restoration and service with humanity.
Review - Guardians of the Countryside • Lorna Howarth
Otter Moon