| Basic Banalities |
| Who is responsible for blanding England? |
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| New Wine in Old Green Bottles |
| Will recycling the New Towns concept make them greener? |
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| And Now for Something Completely the Same |
| Jim Paton dusts off some archives. |
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| Return to Mother India |
| Jyoti Fernandes finds that the Gandhian movement in India is down, but not out. |
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| The Transhuman Agenda |
| Edward Lloyd reminds us what lies at the end of the techno-capitalist project. |
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| Stockfree Britain |
| Jennie Hall describes how a vegan countryside might be structured. |
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| Corrections and Feedback to "Can Britain Feed Itself" |
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| Default Livestock Farming |
| How meat and livestock can fit into a sustainable farming weigh carbon emission savings. |
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| The Plight of the Pig in the Nanny State |
| Despite the swill ban, the cottagers pig will return reckons Simon Fairlie |
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| The Kiss of DEFRA |
| The vet posse swoop on a tactless pig-keeper |
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| MUSCLE POWER |
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| The Rehabilitation of Manual Labour |
| Simon Fairlie examines the prejudice against physical work |
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| Energy, Equity and the Bicycle |
| Excerpts from Ivan Illich's treatise on transport. |
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| Kicking the Pink Diesel Habit |
| Rebecca Laughton on farming with muscle power. |
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| The Nature of Manual Skill |
| There’s more to it than some might think, says Simon Fairlie. |
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| Small Farmers’ Journal |
| By any standards a fine magazine |
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| The Cuban Ox Revival |
| Roberto Sanchez Medina on the use of animal power during Cuba’s “special period” |
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| Polish Horsepower, Peasants and Politics |
| Horsepower is viable for many Polish farmers, says Julian Rose |
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| Horse Carts Banned in Romania |
| Julian Ross calls for the repeal of a dismally short-sighted law |
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| CHAPTER 7 NEWS |
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| The Two Cultures Behind Government Energy Policy |
| Two documents, two contrasting policies |
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| The Planning Bill |
| The continuing story of the neo-liberal bid to undermine the public inquiry system |
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| Boulot, Dodo but No Metro |
| A glance at government and developers approaches to live/work |
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| Skewed Towards Demolition |
| Will the drive for zero-carbon buildings increase the destruction of old ones? |
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| We Can’t Build Our Way Out |
| Andrew George MP has interesting proposals for solving the affordable housing crisis |
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| Yesterday’s Tomorrow |
| Stephen E Hunt compares the proposed Barratt’s ecovilage with the Garden City suburbs |
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| Transitional Therapy |
| Sophie Andrews has mixed reactions to the Transition Handbook |
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| Up and Running Again |
| Jyoti Fernandes and Sophie Andrews watch two communities re-invent themselves |
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| English Planning Disease Spreads to France |
| The French start to crack down on yurts and shacks |
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| A Place in the Country |
| Where "open countryside" is a 24 acre fast-food factory |
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| An Exemplary Appeal Decision |
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| Smallholders and Group Projects |
| Selected decisions |
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