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22 WITNESS THE WASTE Paul Hawken Celebrating the waste-documenting work of photographer Chris Jordan 26 HUMANURE Annie Davy Creative ways to compost human waste 28 WHAT RUBBISH? Nicola Peel From pollution to solution 31 A HYMN OF PRAISE Jeremy Naydler Nature and the flower garden 34 THE MYSTERY OF FLOWERS Keith Critchlow The sacred geometry of plants

FRONTLINE 4 ACTION FROM THE GRASS ROOTS

KEYNOTES 8 CATALYSTS FOR CHANGE Philip Baldwin

Introducing the pioneering work of the Marion Institute

UNDERCURRENTS 12 MUSEUMS OF HAPPINESS

Tony Butler How museums can help inspire a reimagined society 14 NOT FOR TRADE John Fellowes Fighting the illegal trafficking of wildlife 16 RESCUINGTHE ECONOMY Nick Robins

The key task facing the Rio+20 summit 18 A LITTLE-KNOWN JEWEL Andrew McAulay Hong Kong’s Kadoorie Farm & Botanic

Garden has its sights set on creating a new sustainable hub for the region 21 WASTE NOT,WANT NOT Song Dong Exhibition Exploring the role of waste in creating positive change

REGULARS 1 WELCOME Satish Kumar 36 NATURE WRITING

Rashid Maxwell 39 SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Jon Every 40 GREEN CLASSICS: WALDEN Viriato Soromenho-Marques 42 EDUCATION Fritjof Capra

Changing Waste into Art Variables – Patterns 2010, by Steve McPherson. Unaltered marine plastic objects found on the UK coast between 1994 and 2010, collated and created to reflect the mean temperature of the UK official summer of 2010. Steve McPherson has been collecting and creating artwork with objects from his local beach for over 15 years, exhibiting them in the UK and abroad. www.stevemcpherson.co.uk

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May/June 2012 Editor’s Highlights

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44 VOICE FROM THE SOUTH Vandana Shiva 46 LETTERS 47 OCCASIONAL DIDYMUS John Moat

ARTS 48 POETRY Peter Abbs Eco-poets Kim Lasky and Patrick

Bond in praise of trees 50 A SEEING EYE Colin Tudge The extraordinar y talent (and charm) of David Hockney 54 A SENSE OF PLACE David Hockney Time to stop being polite and stand up for our landscape 55 EXHIBITION: EXPOSURE

Garry Fabian Miller An insight into the Dar tmoor ar tist’s inspiration for his new show

REVIEWS 56 A SYMBOL OF HOPE Peter Popham explains how he came to write The Lady and the Peacock, the new biography of

Aung San Suu Kyi 58 HIDDEN TRUTHS Emma Clark reviews Jeremy

Naydler’s Gardening as a Sacred Art

Catalysts for Change acknowledges the role we can all play as members of what the environmental activist, Paul Hawken, calls The Movement With No Name to help tackle the challenges – environmental, social and spiritual – we now face.

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Not For Trade London-based zoologist, John Fellowes, investigates the murky world of illegal wildlife trafficking – still the third biggest illegal trade in the world. “Conservation may be complex but stemming the tide of illegal wildlife trafficking is not. It is wrong and we all need to help stop it,” he says.

59 BUILDING SOLUTIONS Sharon Turnbull reviews Walk Out Walk On by Margaret Wheatley

& Deborah Frieze 60 A HANDBOOK FOR HAPPINESS Hylton Murray-Philipson reviews

How to Be Compassionate by His Holiness the Dalai Lama 61 A QUIET JOY James Clarke reviews the Green

Classic Reveries of the Solitar y Walker by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 62 NATURE’S ESSENCE

Shakti Maira reviews On The Origin of Beauty by John Griffin 64 SILENCE,WATER AND THE DAO

David Cooper explores the metaphor of still water in his new book, Convergence with Nature: A Daoist Perspective 65 HEALING FICTIONS Peter Reason reviews Coming Home to Stor y: Stor ytelling Beyond Happily Ever After by Geoff Mead

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MEMBERS 66 MEMBERS’ STORIES 67 RESURGENCE SHOP

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Witness the Waste The environmental writer and activist, Paul Hawken, introduces the extraordinar y work of the photographer, Chris Jordan, whose pictures represent the kind of activism demonstrators can only dream of: an instant recognition of the absurdity of how we all live.

Walking the Talk There’s only one way to make a real difference and inspire others to do the same and that is to practice what you preach. It may not always be easy but it will be wor th the effor t and the sacrifices says botanist, Jon Every, who shares the stor y of his own journey to the front door of the Yarner Trust, a Devon-based charity that has been promoting creative and sustainable living for more than three decades.

A Sense of Place With his iPad in one hand and a pint of Yorkshire bitter in the other, the British ar tist, David Hockney, invites us into his native landscape – the mostly over-looked eastern par t of the UK’s biggest county – and reveals how to see more than green or brown when you look at a tree. Inter view by Sue Herdman, editor of The National Trust Magazine. Susan Clark @suzresurgence

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