| OPINION |
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| Better Days Ahead |
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| Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts |
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| NEWS IN BRIEF |
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| Space Debris/Tree Mapping |
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| HS2/Roadbuilding/Twyford Down |
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| Indian Protests/ Disposable Mugs/Ukraine Landgrabbers |
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| Rope Bridge in Glastonbury/Save Our Steam Engine/ RIP John Papworth |
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| AGRICULTURE |
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| The Green Tides of Brittany |
| Inès Léraud exposes the source of lethal coastal deposits in Northern France. |
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| Land Hunger |
| They ain’t leasing it much any more — but there are some good schemes around. |
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| Two Cheers For Crickets |
| Let them eat insects, says dairy enthusiast Camilla Ker. |
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| Fifty Years of WWOOF |
| Scarlett Penn describes how a global movement grew out of small beginnings. |
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| Agrarian Renaissance |
| As called for in two new books by Chris Smaje and Colin Tudge |
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| FIRE |
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| The Fire Broker |
| Nature provides fuel, but humans control ignition, explains Stephen Pyne. |
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| Milpa |
| Sustainable slash and burn in Mexico depicted by Rosanna Morris. |
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| The Dangerous Bioenergy Delusion |
| Simon Fairlie scrutinises the scientific sophistry surrounding biofuels. |
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| Firewood Figures |
| Nearly half the world cooks on firewood — can that be sustained? |
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| What Shall We Burn? |
| Miscanthus, default firewood and hydrogen, says Peter Harper. |
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| Firewood in the Firing Line |
| Mike Gardner’s working woodland is targeted by health regulations. |
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| A Horse and His Man |
| Bill Lloyd’s book about muscle power in the woods is reviewed by Gill Barron |
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| The Perils of Smoke |
| Life is dangerous, scientists conclude. |
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| If You Can’t Stand the Heat |
| Gill Barron on how cooking made us brainy. |
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| Keep the Home Fires Burning |
| Kris De Decker lists ancient and modern ways of cooking and keeping warm. |
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| SEWAGE AND FERTILITY |
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| Waste or Resource? |
| Jay Abrahams explains how flush toilets can grace the environment and fill larders. |
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| Embarrassment of Riches |
| Gill Barron goes down the drain. |
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| Reputations: Outside Toilets |
| Jim Bollard is into outhouses. |
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| Positively Timeless |
| Gill Barron looks round the Alternative Portrait Gallery of Ed Gold. |
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| HOUSING AND PLANNING |
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| Despised and Rejected |
| Tess Delaney’s account of how not to do One Planet Development. |
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| Off-Piste in Wales |
| Tony Wrench on how not to study One Planet Development. |
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| Improvised Architecture |
| Stefan Szczelkun’ s book of photos of Thameside plotlands. |
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| Coops, Communities and the Corpy |
| Tom Chance reviews Matthew Thompson’s book on Scouse housing. |
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| Demolish! Demolish! Demolish! |
| The future of planning is an orgy of “regeneration”, writes Andrew Ward. |
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| Driven by Data |
| . . . and subject to rules introduced to promote deregulation, Simon Fairlie discovers. |
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| A Quixotic Response to Planning for the Future |
| Chapter 7 and the LWA respond to the White Paper. |
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| A Whole Lotta Fakin’ Goin’ On |
| True to family form, the Duke of Marlborough is trying to enclose more land. |
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