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COVER STORIES

Front cover: cownose rays PHOTOGRAPH: SANDRA CRITELLI/ www.sandracritelli.com

A mass migration of golden rays, or cownose rays, photographed unexpectedly a few miles off the coast of Holbox Island in the Gulf of Mexico, whilst looking for whale sharks.

10 LIVING WITHIN OUR MEANS Jonathon Porritt Designing a sustainable

capitalism.

21 GUARDIANS OF THE OCEAN Sam Bleakley A passion for riding waves is

the perfect way to nurture an ecological conscience.

42 MUSIC AND PLACE Mark Kidel Has our eagerness to consume

‘world music’ led to the dislocation of the music from its context?

FRONTLINE 6 350.org 7 LANGUAGE NESTS 8 THE PLIGHT OF THE BUMBLEBEE

KEYNOTES 14 THE MOTHER OF BEAUTY John Daniel

We grow from the compost of those who have died.

BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY 18 POTENT PLACES Liz Hosken

Sacred sites are like a network of acupuncture points across the Earth. We must protect them.

24 CREATION STORY Colin Campbell

Human beings can return to the places where the spirit keepers live.

26 LAWS OF ORIGIN Silvia Gomez & Nelson Ortiz

An interview with Macuna Indians from the Colombian Amazon.

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28 THE KISS OF DEATH Christopher McLeod

Tourists to North American sacred sites are being educated to cultivate respect for local traditions.

30 THE EYE OF REVERENCE Josep-Maria Mallarach

The sacred landscapes and seascapes of ancient Europe can still be seen by those prepared to look beyond the usual tourist experience.

UNDERCURRENTS 32 FARM FREEDOM Peter Melchett Genetically modified plants and animals have fallen far short of scientists' predications.

34 ZERO WASTE Robin Murray Our waste is the shadow side of

our economy, not the mark of a civilised society.

37 RESILIENCE Brian Goodwin The bottom-up participatory process

that is the Transition Movement.

4 Resurgence No. 255 July/August 2009 IN OUR TIME

341 years after the first Poet Laureate was appointed, a woman has been chosen for the most prominent literary position in Britain. On May Day 2009, Carol Ann Duffy was anointed Poet Laureate. On this historic day for women and for poets she acknowledged that poetry still matters hugely to a growing number of people in the UK. For Duffy, the appointment of a Poet Laureate is a “spotlight on the vocation of poetry". She declared, “I feel a mixture of humility and delight in becoming the new Poet Laureate. The humility comes from my awareness of the great talent of my peers, but the delight comes from accepting this honour as the first woman to do so.”photograph

: Paul Thomas/AP/Press Association Images

Poet and writer Carol Ann Duffy

40 THE GREEN RESPONSE TO RECESSION Nick Robins & Tony Juniper

Two key thinkers offer a green perspective on the current state of our economy.

THE ARTS 46 ANGELS, BIRDS AND

JOURNEYS Andy Christian

John Maltby’s original and imaginative forms and symbols.

48 POETRY

Peter Abbs

REGULARS 3 WELCOME Satish Kumar

50 A SENSE OF PLACE Gail Simmons

52 SLOW TRAVEL Stephanie Strong

54 SHORT STORY Caspar Walsh

56 NATURE WRITERS Richard Mabey discusses Christopher Smart.

66 ADAPT AND SURVIVE Stephan Harding reviews The Vanishing Face of Gaia.

58 PIONEERS Leo Hickman

59 OCCASIONAL DIDYMUS John Moat

60 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Your views and comments.

61 WHAT’S NEW ON THE WEBSITE www.resurgence.org

BOOKS 62 ARMCHAIR TRAVEL

Philip Carr-Gomm introduces his book Sacred Places.

64 THE PHOENIX ECONOMY John Elkington introduces his new book The Phoenix Economy.

65 GREENING THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY Miguel Mendonça reviews

The Green Collar Economy.

68 A CELEBRATION OF PLACE Adam Thorpe reviews Connemara.

69 A POETICS OF THE SPIRIT Peter Abbs reviews Hiddenness,

Uncertainty, Surprise.

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