Welcome

Welcome • Satish Kumar

Feature Articles

CULTURE OF COMPASSION • The Dalai Lama

Non-violence is the only way to free Tibet and find solutions to other world

NUCLEAR-FREE ZONE • General Lee Butler

Let us strive to create a world free of nuclear weapons.

THE MINDFUL MARKET ECONOMY • David Korten

Here is a clear and viable alternative to global capitalism.

FINANCIAL FUTURES • Dave Darlington

Nature plc was an immediate success.

THE CELTIC TIGER • John Gormley

Ireland is a country where those in power fail to distinguish between standard of living and quality of life.

A WARRIOR WOMAN • Andrew Simms

How is radical Clare Short faring in the corridors of power?

IS THIS PROGRESS? • Kamla Chowdhry

The time has come to re-examine our ideas of progress.

AT THE DINNER TABLE • Tracy Worcester

The Marchioness of Worcester has one foot in the Establishment and the other in the environmental movement.

OPENING SCIENCE TO ETHICS • John Ziman

Scientists cannot claim that their research is "disinterested" whilst filing patents to make a profit.

THE MEADOW • Thomas Berry

CREATION MYTHS • Michael Shaw Bond

Christians and Darwinians have little to fear from each other.

SHE IS A TRUE POET • Peter Abbs

A tribute to Kathleen Raine.

The Arts

GIFTS OF BEAUTY • Ray Kass

Morris Graves has brought together technology and tranquillity in his series of sculptures.

A WOMAN OF RADIANCE • Elizabeth Collins

The great thing about the whole world is love, because it's all a great mystery.

WATERWORLD • Oliver Lowenstein

Susan Derges's river odyssey is expressed in photograms.

Frontline

TO BE KIND • Margaret Harrison

Home-Start volunteers are helping families and children.

WILD RICE • Winona LaDuke

Cultivated Californian "wild rice" is very different from natural wild rice which grows in northern Minnesota.

THIS DIFFICULT DRINK • Ritu Kumar, Nick Robins

A look at organic and fair-trade tea.

Regulars

Touchstone • Colin Hodgetts

Poetry • Ralph Hodgson

Business Diary • David Boyle

Letters to the Editors

Recipes • Dana Spowers

Reviews

IN MY OWN WORDS • Yorick Blumenfeld

MYSTERY OF THE EARTH • Mary Evelyn Tucker

The Great Work

THE COST OF CARBON • David Cromwell

The Carbon War

GAIA CONSCIOUSNESS • Mark A. Schroll

Green Psychology

IN DEFENCE OF DIVERSITY • Caspar Henderson

Cultural and Spiritual Values of Biodiversity and The Sacred Balance

THE RURAL SPELL • John Lane

Village Voices: French Country Life, and On Country Roads and Fields: The depiction of 18th and 19th century landscape

THE CRADLE OF HUMANITY • Jessie Marcham

The African Experience

MISSION OF POETRY • Peter Abbs

W. B. Yeats and the Learning of the Imagination

PURPOSE AND PRINCIPLE • John Elkington

Birth of the Chaordic Age

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT • Peter Quince

Desert Solitaire

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT • Brigitte Norland

Raga Mala

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT • Peter Lang

The Ecology of Money

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT • Rachel Ross

Earth Spirituality

IN CASE YOU MISSED IT • Clive Adams

Quaking Housesz