Ecologist

December/January 2008

Features:

• Age of awakening Will the world really end in 2012? Nicola Graydon is desperate for an answer, but Maestro Tlakaelel, a Toltec spiritual leader, has a more complex world view to offer
• cover Stemming the tide By day shoring up clay sea defences, by night praying the waters don’t rise further. Dan McDougall tells the story of the islanders of the Sundarbans, in the Bay of Bengal, the planet’s irst climate change refugees
• What if life imitated art? Jon Hughes meets the Harrisons, two activist artists doing more to prepare the UK for climate change than an army of Government experts
• corporate organics Many big organic brands have now become household names, but just what lies behind the label? And are the companies that claim to be organic staying true to the movement’s principles? ed Hamer investigates
• The gathering brainstorm ‘Wi-Fi’ is the internet technology that offers ease, speed and convenience. But, asks Mark Anslow, what price are we paying for a world without wires?
• Winter warmth Moving from gas to a wood-chip heating system meant a lot more for one Sussex community than simply laying a few pipes. Mark Anslow reports
• commEnTS How altering the weather with microwaves is all in a day’s work for the US military, by Michel chossudovsky • robert Llewellyn is caught out consuming by his fans • Is a new grace the way to reconnect us with our food? asks David Hawkins • GM research is bad, but its pundits are even worse, explains Jonathan Matthews • Stephen Hale tells politicians to get the environment or get out of government
• Letters A regular forum for your views on our views
• News Radley lakes; World War III; thin-ilm solar; DuPont’s tricks; Antarctic no-go zones
• News focus Are we really on the cusp of a barge- transport revolution? By Tom Savory
• Behind the label: recycled toilet paper There’s a lot more to being green in the lav than buying recycled. Pat Thomas gets to the bottom of one of life’s little necessities
• reviews Eat yourself free of cancer by Healing the Gerson Way. Also, The Big Earth Book; Earth Under Fire; Sharkwater; and Last Words
• How to be free If you want to change the world, the answer, says Tom Hodgkinson, is just to stop
• In season Laura Sevier offers sound advice on the best way to get stuck into the green scene this December and January
• Local hero: christopher Baker of Memorial Woodlands Is there such as thing as a ‘green’ way to go? Laura Sevier meets the man helping others do their bit – from six feet under
• Melting plots Paul Kingsnorth relishes the way local vegetable patches produce not simply horticultural diversity, but cultural diversity
• eco clothing: Winter tweeds Matilda Lee meets the Isle of Mull Weavers, working fair-trade woollen chic
• DIY christmas decorations Trees, stockings and wreaths. All homemade and not a shred of tinsel in sight