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FEATURES 24Age 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 26cover 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 first climate change refugees 32What 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 38corporate 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 43The 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? 50Winter 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 14How 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

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REgUlARS 6Letters

A regular forum for your views

on our views 8News

Radley lakes; World War III; thin-film

solar; DuPont’s tricks; Antarctic no-go zones 12News focus

Are we really on the cusp of a barge

transport revolution? By Tom Savory 20Behind 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 88reviews

Eat yourself free of cancer by Healing

the Gerson Way. Also, The Big Earth Book;

Earth Under Fire; Sharkwater; and Last Words 90How to be free

If you want to change the world, the

answer, says Tom Hodgkinson, is just to stop

gREEn PAgES 56In season

Laura Sevier offers sound advice on the

best way to get stuck into the green scene this

December and January 58Local 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 62Melting plots

Paul Kingsnorth relishes the way

local vegetable patches produce not simply

horticultural diversity, but cultural diversity 64eco clothing: Winter tweeds

Matilda Lee meets the Isle of Mull

Weavers, working fair-trade woollen chic 67DIY christmas decorations

Trees, stockings and wreaths. All

homemade and not a shred of tinsel in sight