IN OUR TIME

On the Seashore As an island, Britain is dominated by its coastline – rugged, beautiful and inspirational – but it’s a coastline that sadly, and all too often, is increasingly polluted by plastic waste of all shapes and sizes washing up on its shores. Now, in a bid to raise awareness of the problem, a new online participatory ar t project (www.marineplastic.org) is inviting UK beachcombers to help document those places where plastic waste is spoiling the shoreline. The project is the brainchild of ar tist Steve McPherson, founder of Marine Art, who is planning to incorporate some of the images submitted in his wall-hung ar tworks.

All washed up

Photo: courtesy Steve McPherson

54 LOST CHANCES Suzi Gablik reviews Bill McKibben’s Eaarth 55 SINGING THE TRUTH Val Harding reviews Mimlu Sen’s The

Honey Gatherers 56 A SEARCH FOR WISDOM

Edmund O’Sullivan reviews Mark Hathaway and Leonardo Boff’s The Tao of Liberation 57 ELOQUENT EPISTLES Jini Reddy reviews Peter Owen Jones’ Letters from an Extreme Pilgrim 58 SEEKING A NEW IDEALISM John Naish reviews Michael Foley’s The Age of Absurdity 60 HUMBLE STEWARDSHIP Chris Nichols reviews Martin

Crawford’s Creating a Forest Garden 61 A MANIFESTO FOR OURTIME Mary Tasker reviews Martin Large’s

Common Wealth 62 THE SACRED UNIVERSE Peter Reason celebrates the visionary works of the late Thomas Berry

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