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C O N T E N T S No.267 July/August 2011

ONCE UPON A TIME Storytelling for social change

FRONTLINE 4 CREATIVITY AND STORYTELLING

STORYTELLING 10 I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS A shor t stor y by Michael Morpurgo 14 THE ANIMALS’ LAWSUIT AGAINST HUMANITY A 1,000-year-old anonymous tale that is just as relevant today 16 THE ICE BEAR Jackie Morris One of the new beautifully illustrated children’s books selected by Resurgence for summer reading

UNDERCURRENTS 18 FIGHTING THE GREEDY GHOSTS Philip Pullman Communities should not be forced to outbid each other to save their libraries 22 THE POWER OF STORYTELLING Michael Morpurgo Why we need more writers, poets and stor ytellers in our schools 26 NONVIOLENT PROTEST Paul Rogers How stories passed along via Twitter,

Facebook and YouTube have changed the political face of the Middle East

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KEYNOTES 28 BUDDHIST ECONOMICS E.F. Schumacher On the centenary of his bir th, we revisit

Schumacher’s then radical new ideas about an economy based on simplicity

REGULARS 1 WELCOME

Satish Kumar 36 SLOWTRAVEL

Jeremy James 38 A SENSE OF PLACE

Munir Atalla 40 VEGETARIAN FOODIE Jane Hughes 42 GARDENING Brigitte Norland 44 OPINION Kevan Manwaring 45 LETTERS

34 ENERGY DEMOCRACY Juliet Davenport Building our energy future on

Schumacher’s Small Is Beautiful model

ARTS & CRAFTS 46 POETRY

Edited by Peter Abbs

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48 RAINBOW OF LANGUAGE

Sandy Brown profiles painter Patrick Jones 52 EXHIBITION

Philip Vann reviews Joan Miró:The Ladder of Escape

REVIEWS 54 IN MY OWNWORDS Andrew Simms on his new book

Eminent Corporations, co-written with David Boyle 55 HONEST HOPE David Midgley reviews The End of the Long Summer 56 A SYMBOLIC FORCE

Harry Eyres reviews John Ruskin’s Of Truth of Water and Ruskin’s Pond: A Photographic Study 57 SPIRIT OF THE PLACE

Jeremy Hooker reviews Towards Re-Enchantment 58 INTO THE LIGHT Sharon Turnbull reviews Deepak

Chopra’s The Soul of Leadership 59 BETTER VALUES Ziauddin Sardar reviews Chandran

Nair’s Consumptionomics

60 FOOD ECONOMY Robert Plastow reviews World on the Edge 61 A RADICAL AGENDA Victor Anderson reviews A Wiser

Politics 62 FINDING SALVATION Lorna Howath reviews Lindsay

Clarke’s The Water Theatre 63 SHARED SOULS Elise Muzard Clark, aged nine,

reviews The Ice Bear by Jackie Morris, and Eric Maddern’s The Seed King 64 DEEP ROOTS Miriam Darlington reviews Carl von Essen’s Ecomysticism

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WEB EXCLUSIVES Caspar Walsh on poetry in film Physicist Fritjof Capra on the hidden truths of nuclear power New UK literar y project Wordquest Devon gets people writing

CHILDREN’s BOOKS Introducing the new children’s books corner, featuring beautifully illustrated books by Jackie Morris, Tudor Humphries and Axel Scheffler

Resurgence Sumer Camp 2011 Celebrating 45 years of Resurgence and 21 years of Green and Away. Join us for a weekend of talks, music, dance and crafts. Updated programme and booking forms available online at www.resurgence.org/summercamp

BLOGS Nature, science, conservation, films, festivals and more

GALLERY Land ar tist Chris Drury on his work, motivation and experience of landscape

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