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COVER STORIES

12 RESILIENCE THINKING

Rob Hopkins Why ‘resilience thinking’ is a crucial missing piece of the climate-change jigsaw.

18 THE THREE 'Rs'

Jonathon Porritt The three fundamental principles that should underpin any approach to food security.

26 TIME FOR ACTION

Tony Juniper The kind of leadership that was shown in bailing-out the banks should now be demonstrated to protect the tropical rainforests.

30 TREES ARE THE

ANSWER Interview with Wangari Maathai Let us continue the work started by Wangari Maathai and reforest the entire world, creating right livelihood for all.

Front cover: White snake's head fritillary Photograph: David Hall/WWT

FRONTLINE 6 KEEPING OIL IN THE

GROUND 7 CLIENTEARTH 8 CULTURAL RESISTANCE 9 POSITIVE MEDIA 10 BIG BANG LAB 11 VANCOUVER - GREEN CITY

KEYNOTES 16 CAN WE COPE?

Crispin Tickell Can we overcome ‘conceptual sclerosis’? 21 POEM

Joyce Kilmer

BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY 22 AMAZON IMPERATIVE

Peter Bunyard We must implement global protection of tropical rainforests. 29 POEM

Lao Tzu 32 CLIMATE JUSTICE

Vandana Shiva The polluters continue to pollute with impunity, whilst people thousands of miles away bear the brunt of their actions.

UNDERCURRENTS 34 CLIMATE-FRIENDLY

FARMING Mukti Mitchell Rich-soil farming could help us turn back the carbon clock. 36 POSITIVE TIPPING POINT

Hazel Henderson The Copenhagen climate conference could be the tipping point for global eco-awareness.

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IN OUR TIME

Soldier Questions the Legality of the Afghan War Lance Corporal Joe Glenton faces a court martial after refusing to fight in Afghanistan. Glenton, who wrote to Gordon Brown recently explaining why he will not fight, plans to deny the charge of desertion because he believes the conflict is unlawful. In his letter to the PM he states, “The war in Afghanistan is not reducing the terrorist risk – far from improving Afghan lives it is bringing death and devastation to their country… I implore you, sir, to bring our troops home.”photo

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38 CHANGING DIRECTION

Kate Rawles The climate crisis can't be solved using existing paradigms. 42 A LEARNING SOCIETY

Kate Davies Can we learn to live sustainably on the Earth? 44 THE POWER OF TRUST

Rachel Fleming An interview with Fiona Reynolds, Director General of the National Trust.

THE ARTS 46 ART FOR EARTH'S SAKE

Satish Kumar From 'ego-art' to 'eco-art'. 50 BANKSY

Andy Christian Has the commodification of Banksy's art taken the edge off his work? 52 POETRY

Peter Abbs The epic power of Nature and the poignancy of love: the poetry of Robyn Bolam.

54 HOMEMADE

Ros Badger & Elspeth Thompson Two gorgeous things to make with love.

REGULARS 3 WELCOME

Satish Kumar 56 LONESOME PINES

Brigitte Norland 58 NATURE WRITING

John Moat 60 SENSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Oliver Tickell 62 PIONEERS

Amanda Pissani 64 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Your views and comments. 72 MEMBERS' PAGE

REVIEWS 66 WHAT ON EARTH

EVOLVED? Christopher Lloyd introduces his new book.

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67 ANCIENT LIGHT

Sean Borodale reviews A Sleepwalk on the Severn. 68 SONG AT THE

HAZARDOUS EDGE Jeremy Hooker reviews Voyaging Out. 69 MEANINGFUL WORK

Jordi Pigem reviews A Life at Work. 70 JEWELS OF EVOLUTION

Lorna Howarth reviews Consider the Birds. 71 WRUNG FROM DARK

Natasha Rivett-Carnac reviews Wild.

73 CLASSIFIED ADVERTS 75 DISPLAY ADVERTS

ILLUSTRATORS Hugh Dunford Wood is an ar tist and designer. Tudor Humphries is a watercolour painter. Rachel Marsh is a graphic designer.

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