CONTENTS No.246 January/February 2008

FRONTLINE

6 THE PEOPLE’S VERDICT

7 RESTORING THE EARTH THE FREECONOMY COMMUNITY

8 TURNING BACK THE CLIMATE CLOCK 9 TREES FOR CHANGE 9 LOCAL FOOD WORKS

GANDHI ANNIVERSARY

11 SERVANT OF THE PEOPLE BHIKHU PAREKH We need to question the basis of civilisation.

12 THE GANDHIAN TRINITY SATISH KUMAR A template for ecology, peace and social justice.

14 SACRED WATER MADHU SURI PRAKASH A refl ection on defecation and development.

17 TRY NONVIOLENCE RICHARD BRANSON The Elders take inspiration from the Mahatma.

UNDERCURRENTS

18 COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS SCILLA ELWORTHY The stories of those brave enough not to pick up a gun.

20 SPEAKING FROM THE HEART BRIDGET BELGRAVE Nonviolent Communication in practice.

22 WILD PASSION MAYA KUMAR MITCHELL Successful land restoration in South America.

26 BEAUTY AND THE BOMB CHRIS POWICI Landscape is a way of seeing.

KEYNOTES

28 TRANSITION STRATEGIES RICHARD HEINBERG, WOLFGANG SACHS, VANDANA SHIVA How do we move from the Age of Excess to the Age of Moderation?

34 MIND SHIFT RAY ANDERSON Making happiness the bottom line.

36 BLESSED UNREST PAUL HAWKEN The creative movement for change.

at the heart of earth, art and spirit

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GANDHI’S GIFT:THE POWER OF NONVIOLENCE

Gandhi drawings by Xanthe Mosley

THE ARTS

40 THE GOLDFINCH TATTOO ANDY BROWN She pictured herself somewhere above the landscape. . .

42 POETRY PETER ABBS Two recent volumes by Henry Shukman and Mimi Khalvati.

44 A TRUE CAVALIER SANDY BROWN From painter to sculptor, but still in praise of the horse

45 ART BEFORE ART PAUL DEVEREUX Before there were art galleries, art was a song of the soul.

48 THIN PLACES RICHARD DAVEY Living in the midst of wonder.

Cold Dawn, painting by Louise McClary

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ILLUSTRATORS MATT KENYON illustrates for The Guardian. JAY LUTTMAN-JOHNSON is an artist. RACHEL MARSH is a graphic designer. JANE RAY is a freelance illustrator. GEORGINA WARNE is an illustrator. Alaska - ‘Slow Travel’ by Kate Rawles (see page 52)

PHOTOGRAPH: CHRIS LOYNES

REGULARS

3 WELCOME LORNA HOWARTH

50 THE LONG VIEW HARRY EYRES

51 THE OCCASIONAL DIDYMUS JOHN MOAT

52 SLOW TRAVEL KATE RAWLES

54 RECIPES DAPHNE LAMBERT

56 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

BOOKS & REVIEWS

58 IN MY OWN WORDS Whistling in the Dark RICHARD MABEY

59 IN MY OWN WORDS The Big Earth Book JAMES BRUGES

61 RESILIENCE AND RESTORATION CAROLINE WALKER reviews Blessed Unrest

62 LOCAVORES MARIAN VAN EYK McCAIN reviews Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and Our Farm

64 THE FIFTH ELEMENT LORNA HOWARTH reviews Wildwood

65 BUILD BEAUTIFUL JAMIE LOVEKIN reviews The Green Self-Build Book

66 ABLOOM PHILIP MARSDEN reviews A Year in the Life of an English Meadow

67 ART FOR ART’S SAKE STEPHANIE STRONG reviews The Gift

68 ON BELONGING JAMES SAINSBURY reviews That distant Land and The Way of Ignorance

69 BOOKS IN BRIEF

70 CLASSIFIED ADVERTS 72 DISPLAY ADVERTS

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New Website As this issue goes to press, we are in the fi nal stages of developing a new website – to be launched in the new year. Our aim has been to design a website that mirrors the style of the magazine and is clearer and easier to navigate. It will also feature a fully-searchable archive, and will eventually give access to outof-print articles.

Editors’ Selection Check-out www.resurgence.org/ selection for three articles that we just couldn’t squeeze in to the January/ February 2008 issue. The fi rst is a continuation of the Nonviolence theme that features in this issue: an inspiring meditation on Anger by Thubten Chodron, an American Tibetan Buddhist nun, who suggests that anger is a passing cloud on the pure nature of mind. We also include a piece written by Richard Heinberg

called Transition Time, which expands on his argument in this issue that we need to move from the Age of Excess to the Era of Moderation. Finally, we publish a review that could just make cycling to work your next step to a low-carbon lifestyle. Called, The Cycling Community, it looks at how easy it is to make a climate-friendly lifestyle change.

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