C O N T E N T S No.261 Ju l y /August 2010

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FRONTLINE 4 NEWS FROM THE GRASSROOTS

20 UNLOCKING THE GRIEF

Ian Siddons Heginworth Tackling the emotion behind most mental health problems

HEALTH SPECIAL 8 HEALTH WARNING

Susan Clark How climate change will impact on human health 10 SUSTAINING LIFE

Book Extract Pulitzer prize-winning biologist E.O. Wilson introduces the link between human health and biodiversity 14 ECOLOGICAL HEALTH

Ted Schettler Why the new definition of health must be an ecological one 16 HEALTH CARE WITHOUT HARM

Harriet Griffey How the health sector could set the bar for more sustainable practices 18 MEDICINES FROM NATURE

Joanna Eede Plant cures from tribal peoples

UNDERCURRENTS 24 ETERNAL BEAUTY Shakti Maira

Part 2 of this artist’s investigation into the nature of beauty 28 THE ECOLOGY OF GROWTH

Nick Robins How new economic thinking is challenging the old models

KEYNOTES 30 DISMANTLING DEVELOPMENT

Wolfgang Sachs

Why equity and wellbeing will define the new post-development age

REGULARS 1 WELCOME Satish Kumar

36 VOICE FROM THE SOUTH

Vandana Shiva 38 BIG FOOT, LITTLE FOOT Mukti Mitchell 40 THE VEGETARIAN FOODIE

Jane Hughes 42 SUMMER GARDENING

Brigitte Norland 44 NATURE WRITING

Caspar Walsh 46 LETTERS 65 COMMUNITY PAGE

ARTS & CRAFTS 48 POETRY Peter Abbs

Nine Fathom Deep – a new volume from David Constantine 50 THE LANGUAGE OF FLOWERS

Philip Vann The transcendent flower paintings of Winifred Nicholson 53 RENAISSANCE DRAWINGS

Amabel Barraclough The British Museum Exhibition

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July/August 2010 IN OUR TIME

A Historic First The UK’s first-ever Green member of parliament, Caroline Lucas, has promised to be a “radical and distinctive voice” in Westminster. The 49-year-old UK Green Party leader overturned a hefty Labour majority to win the Brighton Pavilion constituency and has now given up her MEP Strasbourg seat to usher a whole new political party into the British parliament. Promising to tackle those issues the other parties deftly avoided talking about publicly during their May election campaigns, Lucas told supporters:“As the other grey parties become increasingly indistinguishable, there is a need for a party out there that is voicing some of these issues.”

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Caroline Lucas celebrates in Brighton

54 A SACRED SYMBOL

Jerry Glover On the trail of the Flower of Life

REVIEWS 56 THE TWO BRAINS

Keith Sagar reviews The Master and His Emissary 59 A MISSED OPPORTUNITY Miguel Mendonça reviews Ian

McEwan’s latest novel Solar 60 EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED Andy Christian reviews British Modern

Potters and Their Studios 62 A NEWWORLD INTHE MAKING

Ken Martin reviews A Renewable World 63 THE NATURE OF HOPE Mark Ogden reviews Dame Jane

Goodall’s Hope for Animals and Their World 64 A NEW BLUEPRINT Ian Tennant reviews Bruce Lipton’s

Spontaneous Evolution 66 CLASSIFIED ADVERTS 69 DISPLAY ADVERTS

NEW ON THE WEBSITE

SLOW SUNDAY: 25 JuLY 2010 Unhurried children: giving children the time and space to be young!

EDUCATION Avatar: the issues behind the film A selection of Resurgence ar ticles fleshing out the themes touched upon in James Cameron’s blockbuster

BLOGS Regular blogs from our new writing team on science, nature, media and conser vation

RESOURCES ONLINE Readers’ groups pack: all you need to star t a readers’ group Contributor writing guidelines Green events listing

WEB EXCLUSIVES Fatally Flawed: John Sauven, Director of Greenpeace, on the dangers of a growth economy Moneyless Man: Mark Boyle on his rollercoaster year without money Frontline Online: Lighter Later and the Rosewood Ban www.resurgence.org

Front cover: Horsehair Parachute Mushrooms, Belarus PHOTOGRAPH: BENCE MATE, WILDWONDERS OF EUROPE

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