The good life 2.0
Davie Philip introduces The Village, a project that is a model for a sustainable future through building resilient communities
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Creative fixes
Ginny Brink and Fiona Campbell argue for reviving broken communities with creativity
Issue 53: Sustainable Scotland and the Big Tent Festival
Mike Small on the relationship between the collapse of our economy, political system and environment; Gordon Morgan on the Climate Change Act; Jan Bebbington explains how the Prosperity Without Growth? report shows just how damaging a growth-based economy is; Ginny Brink and Fiona Campbell argue for reviving broken communities with creativity; Davie Philip introduces The Village, a project that is a model for a sustainable future; Henry McCubbin analyses the Euro election results; Gregor Gall interviews the newly formed New Anti-Capitalist Party in France; Bill Ramsay on Afghanistan; Donny O’Rourke on art.
Cleverer, not bigger
Jan Bebbington explains how the Prosperity Without Growth? report shows just how damaging a growth-based economy is, but suggests that alternatives can work
The death of triangulation?
The decade-long attempt to position left-of-centre parties further into the centre ground has failed, as Henry McCubbin shows in the Euro election results
To know your place
In the month when the world comes to Scotland to sample arts from around the world, Donny O’Rourke looks at a book which talks about our art, here
Our fourth Afghan war
Bill Ramsay argues that the Coalition’s very presence in Afghanistan is the incubus for terrorism and this is enhanced by the tactics used.
Unifying the disaffected
Gregor Gall asks the newly formed New Anti-Capitalist Party what the experience of France might hold for Scotland and we can unify the radicals.
Reviews
Two MSPs, Bill Wilson and Elaine Smith, bring their different perspectives to a book on the constitutional futureof the UK and the question of independende
Web review
With the Big Tent being the theme of this edition what bigger tent could we have than the internet. In fact the growth of small bands of activists linking briefly and effectively to gain publicity for their common cause could be put down in the main to the internet and the messaging capacity of mobile […]