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FRONTLINE 6 TREES FOR LIFE 6 MOUNTAINS OF HOPE 7 LIVING MAPS 8 BEYOND THE BARRIERS 9 THE SMOKY SPICE

UNDERCURRENTS 10 GOING BACK TO OUR ROOTS Julian Rose

Why the green movement urgently needs to revisit ‘Small is beautiful’ 12 NUCLEAR IS NOT THE SOLUTION

Helen Caldicott Exposing the myth that nuclear power is in any way green

14 WHY WOOL STILL MATTERS

Sue Blacker Stopping the demise of a sustainable and natural resource

16 NATURE DEFICIT DISORDER

Richard Louv Extract from his book Last Child in the Woods

18 HOLD FAST

William Thomas In the busy modern world, fasting can be a chance to slow down

KEYNOTES 20 EDUCATION IS THE KEY

Jigmi Y.Thinley

The Prime Minister of Bhutan on the role of Gross National Happiness (GNH) in education

BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY 24 CELEBRATION

Survival International We Are One photo feature

REGULARS 2 WELCOME Satish Kumar 30 A SENSE OF PLACE

Robert Ernst 32 PIONEERS: GEORGINA DOWNS Rachel Fleming

36 BIG FOOT, LITTLE FOOT

Mukti Mitchell 38 THE VEGETARIAN FOODIE

Jane Hughes 40 NATURE WRITING

Patrick Evans 42 OCCASIONAL DIDYMUS John Moat 44 OPINION

John Naish 45 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS 68 COMMUNITY PAGE

ARTS & CRAFTS 46 POETRY

Peter Abbs New Voices – a new anthology of recently-published poetry

SCULPTURE SPECIAL Three British sculptors give a unique insight into their work 48 IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE MASTERS

Andy Christian Artist Andrew Lacey is finding greener ways to work in bronze

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May/June 2010 NEW ON THE WEBSITE

SLOW SUNDAY: 30th MAY 2010 A healthy pace: take a leisurely approach to vitality!

EDUCATION Climate change: Bhutan Video repor t on how this tiny Himalayan nation is dealing with rapidly melting glaciers.

BLOGS Ian Tennant: on UK AWARE.

RESOURCES ONLINE Readers’ groups pack: ever ything you need to know about star ting a readers’ group. Contributor writing guidelines Green events listing

WEB EXCLUSIVES The exclusive Antony Gormley article in full Art in Nature: Mythic Garden revisited More recipes: rhubarb and ginger pudding www.resurgence.org

IN OUR TIME

What a Waste! Over a third of Britons still do not recycle their household goods, according to a new survey commissioned by the British Heart Foundation’s (BHF) Furniture & Electrical stores. Although over a quarter of UK households currently replace large furniture and electrical goods – including sofas and televisions – every two years, an alarming 20% of those families simply dump their unwanted goods in landfill sites. BHF discovered most of the households still dumping these goods did not know recycling was an alternative and greener option. Each year, British households are sending 50,000 tonnes of furniture to landfill – that’s the equivalent of burying 3,000 double-decker buses.

The WeeeMan: waste sculpture,Eden Project es/Alamy

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50 MAKING TREES

Paul Anderson A sculptor grapples with the limitations of his raw materials 52 ON BEING HUMAN

Jan van Boeckel Our exclusive interview with the British sculptor Antony Gormley 55 CASTING A SPELL

Resurgence Arts Archive The Mythic Garden

REVIEWS 56 AWAKING CONSCIOUSNESS

Steve Taylor introduces his new book on our ‘natural state’ of being 58 A STEP BEYOND SCIENCE

Philip Franses reviews Reinventing the Sacred 59 MUCH LESS RESISTANCE David Lorimer reviews A New Science of Life 60 ZEN COOKING

Laura Deutsch reviews The Complete

Tassajara Cookbook and The Tassajara Bread

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61 ASPIRATION OR TABOO? Jane MacNamee reviews On Kindness 62 SYSTEM REBOOT

Shakti Maira reviews bazaars,

conversations & freedom 63 WILD GRACE Philip Vann reviews

Bird on aWire 64 AGROFUELS ARE NOT THE ANSWER Victoria Bawtree reviews Agrofuels 65 A HEARTFELT PLEA Caspar Walsh reviews The Barefoot

Beekeeper 66 LIVING POETRY Jay Ramsay reviews The Secret Life of the Universe 67 WALKING ALLOWED Phil Maillard reviews Walking Aloud

69 CLASSIFIED ADVERTS 72 DISPLAY ADVERTS

FOR CONTACT INFORMATION FOR RESURGENCE OFFICES AND AGENTS, PLEASE SEE PAGE 83

Front cover: Antony Gormley STILL I, 1994 Lead, plaster, air 13 x 19 x 30 cm PHOTOGRAPH: Stephen White, London

ILLUSTRATORS William Hibberd is a graphic designer Rachel Marsh is a graphic designer Tudor Humphries is an ar tist & illustrator Sacha Peers (8 years) enjoys Lego and playing outdoors Alberto Ruggieri is a freelance illustrator Meriel Thurstan is a botanical illustrator

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