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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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