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Editor-in-Chief Satish Kumar PA to Satish Kumar Elaine Green Associate Editor Susan Clark Designer Rachel Marsh Website Editor Angie Burke Assistant Editor Emma Cocker Editorial Intern Andrea Gear Investigations Editor Andrew Wasley Contributing Editor Lorna Howarth Sub-editor Helen Banks Art Adviser Sandy Brown Poetry Editor Peter Abbs PR and Marketing Sharon Garfinkel +44 ( 0 ) 7435 781842 sharon@resurgence.org Membership Jeanette Gill, Mandy Kessell +44 ( 0 ) 1208 841824 members@resurgence.org Events Manager Peter Lang +44 ( 0 ) 20 8809 2391 peterlang@resurgence.org Office Manager Lynn Batten info@resurgence.org Advertising Manager Gwydion Batten Advertising Sales Andrea Thomas +44 ( 0 ) 20 8886 3102 andrea@resurgence.org Editorial Office Ford House, Hartland, Bideford, Devon EX39 6EE, UK +44 ( 0 ) 1237 441293 www.resurgence.org Resurgence & Ecologist is published by The Resurgence Trust, a registered educational charity (no. 1120414) C O N T E N T S No. 275 November/December 2012 1 Welcome Satish Kumar on the economy of Nature ECOLOGIST 5 POLITICS Ignorance and Ineptitude by Tony Juniper 6 BUSINESS Pricing Nature by Paul Evans 8 SOCIAL JUSTICE The Great Africa Land Grab by Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB 10 AGRIBUSINESS Food versus Biofuels by Paul Creeney 12 RENEWABLE ENERGY Waste Not, Want Not by Hylton Murray-Philipson 15 INTERVIEW My Green Life, with naturalist Chris Packham 16 MARINE CONSERVATION What Lies Beneath? by Harry Barton 19 LOVE LETTER TO THE EARTH By activist lawyer Polly Higgins FRONTLINE 20 ACTION FROM THE GRASS ROTS by Lorna Howarth ETHICAL LIVING 24 REBUILDING FAITH David Jackman on why we need to create space for ethics in business 26 FOREST SCHOLS Annie Davy introduces a grassroots education movement 28 FOD SOVEREIGNTY Hannah Parathian and James Thorn meet the Indian permaculture pioneer Narsanna Koppula 30 LIVING LANDSCAPES Stephen Moss on reclaiming the countryside for Nature and people 32 THE PILGRIM’S WAY Adam Weymouth on the new Mary/Michael Pilgrim’s Way ARTS 34 POETRY Peter Abbs introduces the poetry of Pauline Stainer 36 REPAIR, REBUILD, RECONNECT Peter Cairns on ‘rewilding’ the Ear th through the unique 2020VISION photography project 38 THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE Robert Macfarlane explains the psychological value of being in Nature 40 THE GREAT CONVERSATION Peter Reason shares a moment of transcendence aboard his yacht KEYNOTES 42 BEYOND CAPITALISM Jerry Mander exposes the inherent contradictions of global capitalism in an excerpt from his new book UNDERCURRENTS 46 A SHARED VISION Rupert Read explains why it’s time to radicalise the green movement 50 THE CINDERELA ECONOMY Tim Jackson on building a truly sustainable green economy 52 TRUE EDUCATION Roger Ash Wheeler visits Brockwood Park School 54 WINNING OVER THE PUBLIC Craig Bennett, Director of Policy and Campaigns at Friends of the Ear th, on campaigning in the 21st centur y 57 SAY IT WITH FLOWERS A time-lapse love stor y by poet Matt Harvey 2 Resurgence & Ecologist November/December 2012
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REVIEWS 58 ASHOKA’S DREAM Philip Grant reviews Bruce Rich’s To Uphold the World: A Call for a New Global Ethic from Ancient India 59 GETTING DOWNTOWORK Angela Malyon-Bein on E.F. Schumacher’s memorable book A Guide for the Perplexed 60 POETIC POWER James Murray-White reviews Rober t Fraser’s biography Night Thoughts: The Surreal Life of the Poet David Gascoyne 30 Cover: Three Fold by Helen Melland www.helenmelland.com Exhibition in Totnes at www.thebowiegallery.co.uk (23 Nov to 5 Dec) 61 ACUMULATED DEPTH Jay Ramsay reviews Helen Moore’s Hedge Fund: And Other Living Margins 62 A GHOSTLY DEBRIS Jeremy James reviews On Extinction: How We Became Estranged from Nature by Melanie Challenger 63 IN MY OWNWORDS Hugh Warwick encourages a deeper engagement with wildlife 64 BEAUTIFUL WORK, BRUTAL BATTLE David Creelman on The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems 65 MAKING MONEY Pat Conaty reviews James Robertson’s Future Money: Breakdown or Breakthrough? 66LETTERS 67 A TRIBUTE TO JOHN LANE 68 SMALWORLD, BIG IDEAS A new collaborative book on activism, edited by Satish Kumar 68 ADVERTS ditor’s Highlights Pricing Nature “The neo-liberal takeover of environmentalism is not a new paradigm but an old confidence trick. Worse it is a trick being perpetrated by market forces and suppor ted by complicit environmentalists more interested in corporate goals than anything as antiquated as Nature.” These stinging words from respected naturalist, Paul Evans (see page 7), form the backbone of the key debate that runs through this new issue of Resurgence & Ecologist – namely not what market price we should be put on Nature and the ‘ser vices’ it supplies but whether Nature should be priced in any way at all. This is a critical debate that will run and run – dividing environmentalists, conservationists and all ecologists both sides of the deep or social ecology divide. 8THE GREAT AFRICA LAND GRAB The shocking scandal of (mostly) secretive land-grabbing – usually from those least able to defend their rights. Phil Bloomer, Oxfam GB’s director of campaigns and policy, discovered the latest research points to biofuels as a major driver for two thirds of these hidden deals Issue 275 16 WHAT LIES BENEATH Less than 2% of UK waters are afforded any protection. Harry Bar ton, chief executive of Devon Wildlife Trust, asks why we don’t do more to protect the wildlife we cannot see – especially the life-forms lurking at the bottom of our seas? 26 FOREST SCHOOLS Teachers repor t that children attending Forest Schools listen more, are calmer, ask more questions and soon become physically and emotionally more confident. So what’s not to like? There are now 4,000 Forest Schools in the UK with the numbers on the rise. Annie Davy introduces a grassroots movement that has now come of age 36 REPAIR, REBUILD, RECONNECT The banking collapse will pale alongside the cost of our ecosystems unraveling, warns Peter Cairns, who is the brains behind the new 2020 Vision book project which invited 20 top photographers to document the ‘rewilding’ of 20 threatened Ecosystems. Resurgence & Ecologist 3

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Editor-in-Chief Satish Kumar PA to Satish Kumar Elaine Green

Associate Editor Susan Clark Designer Rachel Marsh Website Editor Angie Burke Assistant Editor Emma Cocker Editorial Intern Andrea Gear

Investigations Editor Andrew Wasley Contributing Editor Lorna Howarth Sub-editor Helen Banks Art Adviser Sandy Brown Poetry Editor Peter Abbs

PR and Marketing Sharon Garfinkel +44 ( 0 ) 7435 781842 sharon@resurgence.org Membership Jeanette Gill, Mandy Kessell +44 ( 0 ) 1208 841824 members@resurgence.org Events Manager Peter Lang +44 ( 0 ) 20 8809 2391 peterlang@resurgence.org Office Manager Lynn Batten info@resurgence.org Advertising Manager Gwydion Batten Advertising Sales Andrea Thomas +44 ( 0 ) 20 8886 3102 andrea@resurgence.org

Editorial Office Ford House, Hartland, Bideford, Devon EX39 6EE, UK +44 ( 0 ) 1237 441293 www.resurgence.org Resurgence & Ecologist is published by The Resurgence Trust, a registered educational charity (no. 1120414)

C O N T E N T S No. 275 November/December 2012

1 Welcome

Satish Kumar on the economy of Nature

ECOLOGIST 5 POLITICS

Ignorance and Ineptitude by Tony Juniper 6 BUSINESS

Pricing Nature by Paul Evans 8 SOCIAL JUSTICE

The Great Africa Land Grab by Phil Bloomer, Director of Campaigns and Policy at Oxfam GB 10 AGRIBUSINESS

Food versus Biofuels by Paul Creeney 12 RENEWABLE ENERGY

Waste Not, Want Not by Hylton Murray-Philipson 15 INTERVIEW

My Green Life, with naturalist Chris Packham 16 MARINE CONSERVATION

What Lies Beneath? by Harry Barton 19 LOVE LETTER TO THE EARTH

By activist lawyer Polly Higgins

FRONTLINE 20 ACTION FROM THE

GRASS ROTS by Lorna Howarth

ETHICAL LIVING 24 REBUILDING FAITH

David Jackman on why we need to create space for ethics in business 26 FOREST SCHOLS

Annie Davy introduces a grassroots education movement 28 FOD SOVEREIGNTY Hannah Parathian and James Thorn meet the Indian permaculture pioneer Narsanna Koppula 30 LIVING LANDSCAPES Stephen Moss on reclaiming the countryside for Nature and people

32 THE PILGRIM’S WAY Adam Weymouth on the new

Mary/Michael Pilgrim’s Way

ARTS 34 POETRY

Peter Abbs introduces the poetry of Pauline Stainer 36 REPAIR, REBUILD, RECONNECT

Peter Cairns on ‘rewilding’ the Ear th through the unique 2020VISION photography project 38 THE GEOGRAPHY OF HOPE Robert Macfarlane explains the psychological value of being in Nature 40 THE GREAT CONVERSATION Peter Reason shares a moment of transcendence aboard his yacht

KEYNOTES 42 BEYOND CAPITALISM Jerry Mander exposes the inherent contradictions of global capitalism in an excerpt from his new book

UNDERCURRENTS 46 A SHARED VISION Rupert Read explains why it’s time to radicalise the green movement 50 THE CINDERELA ECONOMY

Tim Jackson on building a truly sustainable green economy 52 TRUE EDUCATION

Roger Ash Wheeler visits Brockwood Park School 54 WINNING OVER THE PUBLIC Craig Bennett, Director of Policy and

Campaigns at Friends of the Ear th, on campaigning in the 21st centur y 57 SAY IT WITH FLOWERS

A time-lapse love stor y by poet Matt Harvey

2 Resurgence & Ecologist

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