Discussions
A few older discussion can be found at talkatorion.blog.com.
The Curse of Bigness
by Christopher Ketcham
A dark journey into the corrosive and counterintuitive ideology of "too big to fail."
6 comments
Resistance Resisters
by Derrick Jensen
A note to those who still believe that change will come without a fight.
148 comments
Return to the Center of the World
Photographs and Text by Carolyn Drake
A cautionary tale, inscribed in and along two of Central Asia's most storied rivers. Website exclusive: audio slide show, narrated by the photographer.
5 comments
Cloudy Is the Stuff of Stones
by Anthony Doerr
Looking into the eyes of pebbles, in search of some immutable truth.
11 comments
The Tips of Your Fingers
by Jay Griffiths
State-sponsored surveillance is a crime against individualism, creativity, and beauty.
5 comments
Tending the Garden of Technology
by Andrew Lawler
In which Kevin Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine, suggests that technology is a product of evolution, and human culture is a product of technology.
299 comments
iDubai
Photographs by Joel Sternfeld, Text by Hal Clifford
Street scenes from the ephemeral empire captured in phone.
2 comments
Spectral Light
by Amy Irvine
When the boundaries between predator and prey, wild and tame, black and white, become blurred.
19 comments
50 Simple Ways to Get Off
by Derrick Jensen
A kind of love affair that won't break hearts, but might save species. With AUDIO.
59 comments
Zeitgeist of Doom
Reviewed by Benjamin Percy
What the movie adaptation of The Road says about a culture that craves such cinematic experiences.
3 comments
Putting Things Back Together
by Rick Bass
Considering Wallace Stegner on the centennial of his birth.
7 comments
Playing for Keeps
by Derrick Jensen
Would we listen to nature if our lives depended on it?
61 comments
Mind in the Forest
by Scott Russell Sanders
Very old trees can teach us some things about ourselves.
36 comments
One Block
Photographs and text by Dave Anderson
Can a neighborhood in New Orleans put itself back together?
1 comments
Take the Plunge
by Bill McKibben
Creative outbursts of activism are more than fun, they’re necessary.
9 comments
Sawdust Mountain
Photographs and text by Eirik Johnson
Salvaging a new reality in the diminished logging towns of the Pacific Northwest.
3 comments
Acorn Bread
by Joni Tevis
"It is good to return to a familiar place and find something sowed with a generous hand."
5 comments
The Sound of One Trickster Clapping
by Jay Griffiths
How the world tells us its news depends on how we choose to listen.
12 comments
The Air Aware
by David Abram
In which the author proposes an entirely new definition of what it means to be one with nature.
14 comments
The New Old-Fashionism
by Erik Reece
Ruminating on Wild Blessings, a play whose script consists solely of Wendell Berry's poetry.
8 comments
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