Myth of Progress

Issue 196 • September/October 1999

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Welcome

Welcome

Feature Articles

THE SEED BARONS

Seed companies are using poverty as an excuse to impose control on world food.

THE MYTH OF PROGRESS

If we redesign nature to fit human wishes, we risk making it a mirror of our limitations.

RICH IN THINGS, POOR IN TIME

Poverty of time degrades the wealth of goods.

FRONTYARD AND BACKYARD OF DEVELOPMENT

The Frontyard is filled with people of power and the Backyard embodies the rural realities of India

YOUNG AWAKENING &

Visions and concerns.

Readings

POISONOUS PLASTICS

Some clingwraps may be carrying toxic chemicals.

ISLAM IN THE MODERN WORLD

Consumerism is a culture of living without responsibility.

THE NUCLEAR COST

Nuclear weapons are a useless burden

Population

CONVIVIAL COMMUNITIES

Optimum population has two factors: people and land; both must be considered together.

Economy

IS THERE ENOUGH MONEY?

Let us free money from the banks.

Science

TELL ME WHAT YOU EAT

Is science the answer to safe food?

Frontline

ORGANIC REVOLUTION &

The land is not ours. We should leave the land in good heart.

COMMUNITY COMPOSTING

Working with people

EMPOWERING AWARDS

Celebrating those who are working for a nuclear-free future.

Timeless Wisdom

THE LAND ETHIC

The profound insight of Aldo Leopold has stood the test of time.

A PHILOSOPHER OF WHOLENESS

The philosophy of Spinoza is rooted in the realization of wholeness and harmony.

CELTIC ECOLOGY

The Druids were "the wise ones of the oak".

The Arts

ANIMAL SPIRIT &

Images are doorways to heightened perception of the world.

POWER OF WILD

The paintings of Shafique Uddin evoke an intimate kinship between all creatures.

Regulars

The Occasional Didymus

Good News For Gaia

Business Diary

Letter from Key West

Poetry &

Letter from America

Letters to the Editors

Recipes

Reviews

LEARNING FROM THE EARTH

Review of Ecological Education in Action, and Sustainable Development - First Annual Report

SANE ECONOMY

Review of Beyond the Dependency Culture, and Transforming Economic Life

LOCAL HEROES

Review of Bapu Kuti: Journeys in Rediscovery of Gandhi

HUNGRY GHOSTS

Review of The Economic Horror

ELEGANT ESSAYS

Review of Wormholes

POETRY OF SURVIVAL

Review of extract from Wormholes

COAST AND COUNTRYSIDE

Review of Coast, and Countryside

ENCHANTING BEAUTY

Review of Five Centuries of Sienese Painting

RING OF POWER

Review of Defending Middle-Earth, and Lost Civilizations of the Stone Age

In case you missed it

Review of The McDonaldization of Society, an McDonaldization Revisited

Books in brief

Review of Arch, and Honest Labelling

Books in brief

Review of Local Food for Local People

US book roundup

Review of Off the Map, Elements of Refusal and Technology as Magic

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