For twenty-five years Satish and June have edited Resurgence magazine, which England s Guardian newspaper calls the artistic and spiritual flagship of the Green movement. Satish also helps direct a college devoted to holistic principles of learning, an alternative school in his local village, and a publishing house all of which he founded. Among his fans is Prince Charles, whose Prince of Wales Institute for Architecture has invited him to lecture on spirituality and architecture four times. Unlike many crusaders for worthy causes, Satish and June actually live the simple life they celebrate. By almost any economic standard of the modern world they are poor, yet it s almost impossible not to envy their life.
Meals usually come straight from the garden.
I ve set foot in. While most of the magazine s work goes on in a converted stone barn a few steps from the front door, the cottage s living room doubles as Satish s office. He sits at the big wood desk while we talk. My major idea is that we need to change consciousness, Satish says. He is a small man, wiry and dapperly dressed, with a gray goatee and intense brown eyes.