Welcome

Legacy of the Mahatma • Lorna Howarth

Commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi.

Frontline

The People's Verdict • Gerald Conyngham

Ekta Parishad: 25,000 people, mainly Adivasi and Dalit, marching to Delhi for land rights.

Restoring the Earth • Peter Phelps

Earth Restoration Service launched the UK School Tree Nurseries to help restore our damaged planet.

The Freeconomy Community • Paul Kingsnorth

Encouraging community self-sufficiency by offering and sharing skills.

Turning Back the Climate Clock • Peter Russell

Capturing carbon and returning it to the ground.

Trees for Change • Peter Kingsnorth

Mini-reforestation projects are helping to improve livelihoods in Mali.

Local Food Works • Peter Kingsnorth

The Plunkett Foundation is helping reconnect consumers to the land by increasing access to fresh, healthy local food.

Gandhi Anniversary

Servant of the People • Bikhu Parekh

Gandhi said that we need to question the very basis of civilisation and rebuild it on an alternative foundation. Our anthropocentric world view should be replaced by a cosmocentric one.

The Gandhian Trinity • Satish Kumar

Gandhi's techniques of Satyagraha - Sarvodaya, Swaraj, Swadeshi - offered a template for ecology, peace and social justice.

Sacred Water • Madhu Suri Prakash

Honouring Gandhi: a reflection on defecation and development.

Try Nonviolence • Richard Branson

The Elders are a global force for change. Their bid to try where others have failed is inspired by the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi.

Undercurrents

Community Champions • Scilla Elworthy

Supporting those who are following the path of nonviolence in conflict resolution.

Speaking from the Heart • Bridget Belgrave

The power of putting into practice Marshall Rosenberg's ideas of Nonviolent Communication.

Wild Passion • Maya Kumar Mitchell

A visit to Doug and Kris Tompkins' Conservation Land Trust project at Pumalín Park, in Argentina.

Beauty and the Bomb • Chris Powici

Sheep are no more natural to the landscape than a wind farm. The poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sorley MacLean show how landscape is a way of seeing.

Keynotes

Transition Strategies • Richard Heinberg, Wolfgang Sachs, Vandana Shiva

Three prominent Resurgence writers explore some options relating to globalisation, peak oil and the industrialisation of agriculture.

Mind Shift • Ray Anderson

We need to redefine our economy and our values so that happiness, rather than material wealth, becomes our priority.

Blessed Unrest • Paul Hawken

Recognising and connecting with the vast, diverse movement for positive change that is all around us.

The Arts

Fiction: The Goldfinch Tattoo • Andy Brown

She pictured herself somewhere above the landscape? A short story.

Poetry • Peter Abbs

Two recent volumes of poetry by Henry Shukman and Mimi Khalvati.

Craft: A True Cavalier • Sandy Brown

The magnificent driftwood horses of Heather Jansch.

Art Before Art • Paul Devereux

Today's art movements are rooted in an ancient sacred context.

Thin Places • Richard Davey

The drawings and paintings of Louise McClary reflect a sense of wonder in her surroundings.

Regulars

The Long View - FIXITY AND IMPERMANENCE • Harry Eyres

Fixity and impermanence: human beings were born to improvise.

The Occasional Didymus - TIME FOR A YARN • John Moat

Time for a yarn: what sense we make with the words we say comes from what we are.

Slow Travel - THE CARBON CYCLE • Kate Rawles

The Carbon Cycle: a long, contemplative bicycle ride from Texas to Alaska.

Recipes • Daphne Lambert

Celebrating the taste and health benefits of cabbage. Sauerkraut, stuffed cabbage leaves and colcannon.

Letters to the Editors

Reviews

In My Own Words: Whistling in the Dark • Richard Mabey

A personal tribute to the nightingale.

In My Own Words: The Big Earth Book • James Wells-Bruges

The prospect of catastrophe is an opportunity to be resourceful.

Resilience and Restoration • Caroline Walker

Blessed Unrest by Paul Hawken

Locavores • Marian Van Eyk McCain

Animal, Vegetable, Mineral by Barbara Kingsolver, with Stephen L. Hopp and Camille Kingsolver, and Our Farm by Rosie Boycott

Time Well Spent • Brigitte Norland

Doing Time in the Garden by James Jiler

The Fifth Element • Lorna Howarth

Wildwood by Roger Deakin

Build Beautiful • Jamie Lovekin

The Green Self-Build Book by Jon Broome

Abloom • Philip Marsden

A Year in the Life of an English Meadow by Andy Garnett and Polly Devlin with Chris Smith

Art for Art's Sake • Stephanie Strong

The Gift by Lewis Hyde

On Belonging • James Sainsbury

That Distant Land by Wendell Berry and The Way of Ignorance by Wendell Berry

Books in Brief • Lynn Batten, Lorna Howarth, Juliette Collins

(My) Dying is Fun by Christopher Day, World Changing (ed.) Alex Steffen, How Many Lightbulbs Does It Take to Change a Planet? by Tony Juniper, Dharamsala Diaries by Swati Chopra, Green Up! By Will Anderson