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ILLUSTRATORS Jay Luttman-Johnson is a linocut printmaker. Tudor Humphries is a watercolour painter. Laura Carlin is a graduate of the Royal Academy of Art. Peter Till is a freelance illustrator.

IN OUR TIME

Eddie Stobart Spotters of iconic Eddie Stobart trucks can now add 'eco-train' to their spotting list. At 1,100 miles the journey from Valencia to Dagenham is the longest single rail journey in Europe, and all to deliver fresh fruit and vegetables to the kitchens of Britain. This new ecotrain represents the opening up of a transcontinental rail freight network across Europe - something rail transport officials had hoped for since the opening of the Channel Tunnel. This new move will take thirty lorries off the road for every rail journey made, that's 3.7 million kilometres of road journeys per year and, as a result, a reduction in CO2 emissions of 8,625 tonnes annually!

Fruit and veggies loaded onto Stobart's new eco-train

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: COURTESY EDD

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BIOCULTURAL DIVERSITY 48 BALANCING ACT

Angela Robson In parts of Siberia, a resurgence in nomadic traditions competes with the lure of contemporary life.

THE ARTS 50 IN SERVICE OF THE EARTH Stephan Harding

Ecological artist Deirdre Hyde leaves an impressive legacy in Costa Rica. 54 AGE OF ENCHANTMENT

Anthony Nansen The new paradigm where the arts provide a new cultural leadership. 56 EXTREME KNITTING

Sandy Brown The quiet revolution that raises novelty knitting to an art form. 58 POETRY

Peter Abbs Her Leafy Eye: Poet Lesley Saunders is inspired by William Kent's garden at Rousham, Oxford.

60 NO TRUMPETS NEEDED

Michael Morpurgo An uplifiting short story from the former Children's Laureate.

REVIEWS 64 SOUL POWER

Scilla Elworthy introduces her new book.

65 MORAL ANALYSIS

Jack Santa Barbara reviews Right Relationship. 66 GREEN AGENDA

John Elkington and Peter Bunyard review The Constant Economy.

68 DO NOT BE AFRAID

Sophie Poklewski Koziell reviews The Art of Dying and Gentle Dying.

70 SOLIDARITY STORIES

Chellis Glendinning reviews Dignity and Defiance.

71 WE ARE ALL RELATED

Samuel Bendeck Sotillos reviews Of the Land and the Spirit.

73 CLASSIFIED ADVERTS 75 DISPLAY ADVERTS

Front cover: Common Starling flock, in roosting flight at dusk, Dumfries, Scotland

PHOTOGRAPH: PAUL HOBSON/FLPA

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