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Issue 1

Perspectives in Ecology, Spirituality and Education
Spring 2004

Earthsong CoverFeature Article: Spirit and Place - David Tacey

An Aboriginal elder of the Ngarinyin people, David Mowaljarlai, told me in 1996 that 'spirituality is coming back in Australia'. 'This is a spirit country', he said, 'and we will all have to face the sacredness of the land'. David Mowaljarlai's 'all' in this sentence obviously included white people as well as black people, since he was talking to me and including me in the conversation. Unlike so many other voices in Australia at the time, voices supporting racial exclusivity and difference, he was being extraordinarily generous and inclusive...

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Contents - Issue 1

To sing a new song

Introduction to Earthsong

Elizabeth Pike

Feature Writer

Spirit and Place

David Tacey

Personal Commitment

A plac in the Styx, a place on this earth

Felicity Harris

Back to the Future: An environmentally friendly holiday experience

Jenny & Tom Kingston

Earth Saint

Angela Cameron

Carmel Wallace

Re-Enchanting Weatern Science

Caroline Smith

For Schools

Perspectives on Environment Education

Gill Baker

School Community: Attaining and sustaining right relationships for life

Harvey Corish

Celebration of Place

Tabgha Centre

Veronica Littleton

Interview

Two 'townies' first hand experience of permaculture and organic farming

Aidan Smith interviewed by Tom Kingston

The 'Being' of Lake Mungo

Mark O'Loughlin

Reviews

Why Warriors Lay Down and Die

Margaret Walker

Natural Capitalism

Kevin Atton

The Everything Seed

Catherine Bearsley

The Earthsong Project