Feature Articles

TRAVELS WITH AN ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTOR • James Lovelock

Science can still be a vocation, not just a career. Something that can be done even at home.

TRUST YOUR SENSES • David Abram

Sensory experience renews the bond between our bodies and the breathing Earth.

PATENTS ON LIFE • Corner House

The European Union¹s proposed law on patenting will put economic benefits in the hands of the few and endanger the lives of the many.

VOICES OF CONCERN • Hugh Warwick

The movement is growing in opposition to the genetic industry.

THE EYE OF THE HEART • Jonathan Stedall

Fantasy and myth communicate a deep truth.

THE DROWNING VILLAGE • Titus Alexander

An allegory about global climate change.

PLENTY OF MONEY • Peter Lang

There is ninety times as much money circulating in the world as there are goods and services to exchange.

REDISCOVERING MUTUALITY • Pat Conaty & Danyal Sattar

Building societies were founded for the benefit of their members and in support of the local economy. Now they are becoming banks to serve in the interest of the global market.

DREAM ANIMALS • James Hillman & Margot McLean

In a new book, a psychologist and an artist explore the question of why animals are proliferating on TV while they are rapidly disappearing from the planet?

A LOVE POTION • Romio Shrestha

Health arises from a way of life which includes good diet, good sleep and good exercise. But, above all, good relationships with everyone around you.

A PILGRIMAGE TO MOUNT KAILASH • Satish Kumar & June Mitchell

Three miles above sea level, Tibet is the roof of the world and sacred Mount Kailash is the ladder to Heaven.

PLIGHT OF TIBET • Tsering Shakya

A new book, Fire Under Snow, tells the story of a Tibetan prisoner.

LIGHTING UP LADAKH • Bunker Roy

AN UNWRITTEN EPIC • Nirmal Verma

Indian civilization is an epic, the text of which is ever unfinished.

DIGNITY AND DISABILITY • Sarah Hall

Disability does not mean degradation of human life. Camphill villages offer hope to the handicapped. Here is a Russian example.

Regulars

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle • David Nicholson-Lord

Using a consumer accessory (a dog-walker) to manage another consumer accessory (a dog) is an extraordinary feat of accessorization.

Good News For Gaia • Lorna Howarth

Business Diary • Sheila Moorcroft

Letter from Denmark • Jay Walljasper

Poetry • Adrian Mitchell

Letters to the Editors

Recipes • Dana Spowers

The Potato - a pharmacist planted potatoes outside Paris and put guards around the field to protect them.

Reviews

BUG WATCHING • Stephanie Mills

Microcosmos, Bugs in the System , The Forgotten Pollinators

THE PHYSICS OF CONSCIOUSNESS • Chris Clarke

The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

LOVE WITHOUT RESTRAINT • Nick Robins

Albert Camus: A Life

LOCKED IN, LOOKING OUT • Rosalind Brackenbury

The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

ALCHEMY OF MINDS • John Moat

Alchemy: The Art of Transformation

THE PRACTICE OF PRAYER • Ronald Lello

Prayer: A Study in the History and Psychology of Religion

IS FEMINISM OVER? • Sue Wheat

Tomorrow¹s Women

CAPITALISM WITH CONSCIENCE • Sarah Roberts

Cannibals with Forks, The Hungry Spirit

WORKERS FOR ECOLOGY • Dave Elliott

Reforming Energy

ECONOMIC FUNDAMENTALISM • Jeremy Seabrook

Myth of Progress

BOOK ROUNDUP • Kirkpatrick Sale

American books about simple living