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FRONTLINE 6 ACTIONS THAT COUNT 6 LOW CARBON

COUNTRIES 7 CARE FARMING 9 FASHION'S NEW MODEL

UNDERCURRENTS 10 NHS: A NATURAL HEALTH

SERVICE William Bird For optimum health go out in Nature and walk every day. 14 STRIDES TOWARDS

SUSTAINABILITY Helen Yaffe Cuba’s successful models of sustainable development are being widely replicated in Latin America.

16 BEYOND COPENHAGEN

Stephen Hale Our leaders are failing: What we need is a deeper movement for change.

KEYNOTES 18 FACING THE FUTURE

From The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: HRH The Prince of Wales argues that we need to think globally but act locally.

LIBERTY 25 FREEDOM

Philip Pullman The award-winning novelist shares much of his philosophy of liberty with visionary artist William Blake. 28 FREEDOM IS A GIFT

Michael Edwards Liberty's personal and social dimensions reinforce each other in a happy marriage of love and justice. 30 OPEN LIBERTY

Tony Curzon Price Our obsession with security undermines those that fought so very hard for our civil liberties.

34 POLICE & PROTESTERS

Plane Stupid The climate activists who say they only break the law to protect the liberty of future generations.

REGULARS 3 WELCOME

Satish Kumar 36 LETTERS TO THE EDITORS

Readers' views and comments 38 NATURE WRITING

Miriam Darlington 40 VOICE FROM THE SOUTH

Vandana Shiva 42 FOOD

Guy Watson 44 TRANSITION TALES

Mark Boyle 46 A SENSE OF PLACE

Gail Simmons 72 COMMUNITY PAGE

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