| COMMENT |
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| The Circus Returns |
| Mike Hannis |
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| Time to Cough Up |
| Gill Barron |
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| When There Is No “Choice” |
| Gill Barron |
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| The “Family Farm” Tax |
| Simon Fairlie |
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| Who Will Police the Charity Police? |
| Simon Fairlie |
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| A Matter of Mindset. |
| Colin Tudge |
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| Making Poverty Affordable. |
| Gill Barron |
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| Not Fine At All |
| The Manifesto Club |
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| The Skin’s The Limit |
| Gill Barron |
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| SHORT STORIES |
| Home Fires Are Still Burning • Ashes Rise Again • The Big Beasts Are Back • River Robbery, Sewage Scandals • Squirmin’ in their Ermine • Blue Noses, Red Faces • A Patron Saint for Peasants • Who Needs Nightingales? • Why [Not] UBI ? • A New Moon? • Taking Power to The People. |
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| HEAVY METAL TECHNOLOGY |
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| Scrapyards in Space. |
| Satellites are causing a celestial litter problem, as Stella Burnside explains. |
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| Subs into Ploughshares. |
| How redundant shipyards could revive the Lucas Plan. |
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| Special Relationship? Time to Divorce. |
| US nuclear warheads are returning to the UK, warns CND |
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| Escaping Technology’s Tentacles. |
| Annelie Fitzgerald calls for a sanctuary, perhaps a rewilded one. |
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| FEATURE |
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| Wild Communities, Tamed Publics. |
| Chris Smaje mulls over recent books on rural and rewilding matters. |
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| ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MINERAL, EDIBLE |
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| B is for Beaver. |
| Three essays on living close to nature from veteran farmer & grower Tim Deane. |
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| A Spark From The Arctic. |
| Freezing? David Quammen has a suggestion to warm you up. |
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| Living With the Long-Tails. |
| How Greg Frey and Mark O’Leary deal with some anti-social neighbours. |
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| Milk is a Multitude. |
| In Pune, India, cows live and lactate on garbage. It’s terroir, claims Lilly Kelting. |
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| Recipe for A Happy Cow. |
| Farmer John Dawson describes his Yorkshire dairy. |
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| McBroom Tells the Truth. |
| Every farmer’s dream is realised in this tall tale from Sid Fleischman. |
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| A Good Brew is Hard to Find. |
| A classic rant, pro-beer and anti-tea, by William Cobbett himself. |
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| TRAVELLING LIGHT — THE RETURN OF PEDESTRIANS |
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| Making Tracks. |
| Long-distance paths for two legs and four are back on the map. |
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| My Third Leg. |
| Simon Fairlie discovers new pleasure in an old pastime. |
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| The Virgin and The Village. |
| How the revival of pilgrimage brings a boost to rural areas. |
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| ESCHATOLOGICAL SPECULATION |
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| Dies Irae, Dies Illa. |
| Gloria Mundy wonders why The End of the World still hasn’t arrived. |
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| Synthetic Salvation — for Some. |
| The Transhumanists want us lot gone, as Greg Frey explains. |
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| So Who Will Inherit the Earth? |
| Why is human reproduction in crisis, wonders Gill Barron. |
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| The Rise and Fall of Rabbits and Pigeons. |
| A reservoir of wild protein for the future is a must-have. |
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| On Transcendental Meta-Worry. |
| If the state of the world is driving you nuts, perhaps Lewis Thomas can help. |
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| LETTER |
| Tim Deane locks antlers with the deer lovers. |
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| PLANNING AND PEOPLE |
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| Making it Work. |
| Rob Higgs tells how an old quarry has become a live/work home for artists, and nature too. |
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| Any articles not attributed to an author were written by Gill Barron. |
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