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C O N T E N T S No.268 September/October 2011

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KEYNOTES 8 NEW FRONTIERS Margaret Atwood It’s not Nature that needs saving; it’s the two-legged species that has forgotten its proper place in the world

UNDERCURRENTS 14 WHAT COMES NEXT? Bill McKibben On why there’s still a good chance we can save our magnificent Ear th 16 RETHINKINGTHE SEASON Charty Durrant Being fashionable shouldn’t have to mean destroying the planet 20 ENCHANTING FORESTS Robin Maynard Why the plan to sell off our national forests triggered a monumental outcr y

22 BEAUTY &WELLBEING Harry Eyres In dialogue with the Conservative MP

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BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY 32 WHICH WAY NOW? Elizabeth Wainwright Photo feature on the difficult choices facing not just Africa but all of us

REGULARS 1 WELCOME Satish Kumar 34 VOICE FROM THE SOUTH

Vandana Shiva 36 PIONEERS

Elizabeth Wainwright profiles the youth activist Kirsty Schneeberger, MBE

26 CHALLENGING THE GREENS Jonathon Porritt How much progress have we really made, and what should we be doing next?

28 ASKING THE BIG QUESTIONS Colin Tudge Where to look for the big answers

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38 URBAN GARDENING Helen Jukes 40 ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Jason Lowther 42 A SENSE OF PLACE Jemima Roberts 44 THE OCCASIONAL DIDYMUS John Moat 45 LETTERS

ARTS & CRAFTS 46 POETRY The late Glyn Hughes;

edited by Peter Abbs 48 LOUDER THAN WORDS

Antony Gormley The silencing of the ar tist Ai Weiwei and why we must all speak out 54 A SENSE OF HOME

Simon Olding The forgotten etchings of a celebrated British potter 56 PAINTER AS STORYTELLER

Nicholas Usherwood Profiling the powerful work of Wynn Jones

REVIEWS 58 PLAYING WITH LIGHT Gay Watson reviews The Colour of Time by Garry Fabian Miller and

Susan Derges’ Elemental

59 BEHIND THE MASK Nic Marks reviews Economics Unmasked 60 LIFE UNPLUGGED

Sophie Poklewski Koziell reviews The Winter of Our Disconnect 61 BIGGER STAKES

Ed Mayo reviews Ad Broere’s Ending the Global Casino 62 THEFT IS THEFT James Clarke reviews Common as Air : Revolution, Art and Ownership 62 ART’S EVOLUTIONARY ROOTS? Shakti Maira reviews The Art Instinct 64 LIVING IN HARMONY Jeremy James reviews Gotham

Chopra with Deepak Chopra’s Walking Wisdom 65 A WORLD MADE GREEN Barrie Oldfield reviews Richard St

Barbe Baker’s Tall Timber 66 MASTER OF ALCHEMY Nomi Rowe reviews Cecil Collins’

The Magic Mirror

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WEB EXCLUSIVES Patrick Evans on his slow sail around Cornwall In My Own Words: Thomson Martin gives an insight into his transformational book, The Bluff Detector Simon Mitchell on how to transcend the prevailing culture and really enjoy the moment

CHILDREN’s BOOKS Our new selection of non-fiction books to introduce young people to the natural world, including Kids in the Wild Garden and Nature Adventures

BLOGS Visual Jazz: Sandy Brown on her visit to Harvard and recent exhibition at Lacoste Galler y Plus Nature, science, conservation, films, festivals and more

TWITTER Resurgence magazine @resurgence_mag Susan Clark, Editor @suzresurgence Rachel Marsh, Ar t Director @altrecphoto

Front cover: Ai Weiwei, April 2009, in his studio in Caochangdi Village Photo: © Elisa Haberer

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