The Ecologist

Vol. 1 No. 16 October 1971

Editorial So far so good

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Scott McVay

Arthur Tamplin and John Goffman

P. Berresford Ellis

Ruth Harrison

G. N. Syer

Jean Liedloff

Michael Allaby

G. King ham

Lawrence D. Hills

Edward Goldsmith

Feature articles

Can Leviathan long endure so wide a chase ? Has the whale a future ?

Towards an adversary system of scientific enquiry. The need for a new system for evaluating technology

Celtic nationalism. Part of a world movement

Factory farming, a passing aberration

Marx and Ecology

Reports

New hotels . . . with reservations

Natural farming

SQ2 Chateau bottled?

Columns

Down to earth Go as you grow

Towards a unified science The four-dimensional model

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Ecology action Friends of the Earth's Schweppes Campaign

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Feedback

Books

Letters

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Editor: E. R. D. Goldsmith; Deputy Editor: Robert Allen; Associate editors: Michael Allaby, Peter Bunyard, John Davoll, Lawrence D. Hills, Brian Johnson, S. G. Lawrence, Jean Liedloff, Charles Maclean, Robert Waller. Production and design by The Soil Association. Administration: Joyce Robson. Editorial copy and advertising enquiries should be sent to The Editor, The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Telephone 01-948 0690. Published by Ecosystems Ltd., registered office 11 Mansfield Street, Portland Place, London W1M OAH and distributed by the Hachette Group, Continental Publishers and Distributors Ltd., 4 Regent Place, London W1R 6BH; Telephone: 01-734 5259; Telegrams:AglibrairiLondon Wl ; Telex 25114. Subscriptions to: The Ecologist, 73 Kew Green, Richmond, Surrey. Printed by The Garden City Press Ltd., Pixmore Avenue, Letchworth, Hertfordshire, SG6 US.

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