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FRONTLINE 4 ACTION FROM THE GRASSROOTS

UNDERCURRENTS 8 THE TRAGEDY OF BIODIVERSITY Paul Evans

Why conservation must change to ‘stand up’ for the whole of Nature 12 TRANSHUMANCE

Diego Vivanco How this dying tradition plays a role in supporting biodiversity

14 EAST AND WEST

Rachel Fleming A modern sage shares his thoughts on living in harmony

16 LETTER FROM JAPAN

Junko Edahiro Younger Japanese consumers are rejecting material abundance

18 GETTING OFF THE TREADMILL

David Boyle & Andrew Simms Did our peasant ancestors know something we don’t?

KEYNOTES 20 EMBODIED WISDOM

Juhani Pallasmaa

Exploring the embodied condition of the integrated human experience

PHOTO FEATURE 24 ADAPTATION

Jonathan Mitchell

Those species most able to adapt will survive climate change REGULARS 1 WELCOME Satish Kumar 28 PROJECTIONS

Caspar Walsh The new Resurgence film column 30 THE VEGETARIAN FOODIE

Jane Hughes 32 BIG FOOT, LITTLE FOOT Mukti Mitchell 34 SLOWTRAVEL

Adam Weymouth 36 NATURE PIONEERS

Compiled by Elizabeth Wainwright

38 SENSE OF PLACE

Jay Ramsay 40 AUTUMN GARDENING

Brigitte Norland 42 LETTERS 64 COMMUNITY PAGE Elizabeth Wainwright

ARTS & CRAFTS 44 POETRY Peter Abbs

The prophetic voice of Canadian poet P.K. Page 46 LUCID AND WILD

Philip Vann Celebrating the 80th birthday of landscape artist William Crozier 51 PAUL GAUGUIN

Tate Modern presents Gauguin: Maker of Myth

REVIEWS 52 FLIGHTS OF IMAGINATION Sophie Poklewski Koziell reviews

Tim Dee’s The Running Sky

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