Bright Spark

Last year, while taking a slow meander through the caves of consciousness and a walk down the path of freedom (Glastonbury), I happened upon a free magazine called The Spark, a quarterly crammed full of ethical, organic and environmental stuff. "Thinking globally, listing locally," The Spark focuses on alternative life in the West Country and has been doing so since 1993 - they even plant trees to offset their carbon footprint. The Wild and Wooley West has the largest proportion of alternative practioners in the UK and is also the home of the best band in the whole world, The Ozric Tentacles. The mag's new issue out in Feb; you can download the current one as a PDF over at www.thespark.co.uk [written by Ian Harris]