Wildlands Philanthropy

Issue 191 • November/December 1998

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Welcome

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Feature Articles

WILDLANDS PHILANTHROPY

There is a growing new passion among a small number of millionaires in the USA - to save wild nature

WILDERNESS IN BRITAIN

Saving Snowdon is a step in the right direction.

VORTEX OF IMMENSITY

Monolithic and mammoth organisations are better suited to the tasks of destruction than to the work of imagination.

FROM CONSUMPTION TO SATISFACTION

The idea of consumption has gained a near-dictatorial power over the way societies are run.

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT

Is there a relationship between growth in crime and growth in consumerism?

FISH AND FAST FOOD

The rhetoric of development provides an invaluable camouflage for the exploiter.

BEGGING BABIES

Aid agencies use the desperate faces of children from poor countries to raise funds, ignoring the causes of poverty.

NONSANTO SPIRIT OF THE EARTH

It is not enough to invent new machines and new institutions; we need the universal recovery of the human spirit.

MUSIC AND SILENCE

Music is probably the oldest religious rite. The first priests were probably musicians, the first prayers were probably songs.

A SCULPTOR OF SPIRIT

To understand the work of John Meirion Morris we have to see the artist as a spiritual agent.

THREE WISE MEN

Hayek, Popper and Polanyi and the riddle of globalisation.

ECO-PHILOSOPHER

Humanity, frugality, caring for the Earth and the interconnectedness of all things are the themes which underpin Kahlil Gibran's poetry.

Frontline

ETHICAL INVESTMENT GETS REAL

In the eighties ethical investors were largely disinvesting from unacceptable companies but in the nineties all that is changing.

JOY OF JUNK-SWAPPING

The idea is admirably simple: clear out everything you don't want and let people take what they fancy.

A HOUSE OF LEARNING

Oberlin College is building an environmental studies centre which is an ecological statement in itself.

Regulars

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle

Good News For Gaia

Business Diary

Poetry &

Letter from America

Letters to the Editors

Recipes

Reviews

WE CAN BREATHE AGAIN

Review of The Manic Sun: Weather Theories Confounded

SCIENCE AND COMMERCE

Review of Genetic Engineering - Dream or Nightmare?

GLOBAL EQUITY

Review of Greening the North..A Post-Industrial Blueprint for Ecology and Equity

MARKET HEGEMONY

Review of False Dawn: The Delusions of Global Capitalism

PLEONEXIA

Review of Waiting for the Barbarians

MONEY AND DEBT

Review of What Everybody Really Wants to Know about Money and The Grip of Death: a study of modern money

GREEN ROUTES

Review of The Green Lanes of England

A DEEP SENSE OF PLACE

Review of An Architecture for People: The Complete Works of Hassan Fathy

SIBYLS OF THE EARTH

Review of When Oracles Speak

ECOCRITICISM

Review of Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature

THE COMMUNITARIANS

Review of Diggers and Dreamers: The Guide to Communal Living 98/99

THE FOURTH WISE MAN

Review of The Greatest Gift: The Story of the Other Wise Man

TRANSFORMATION

Review of Women in Search of the Sacred FORESTS OF THE

FUTURE

Review of Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use

US BOOK ROUND-UP

Review of Pulling The Plug

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