Discussions

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Going to Ground: Britain's Holloways

by Robert Macfarlane

They were at one time the busiest of routes, but now they are among the wildest niches of Britain
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Environmental Amnesia

by Sandra Steingraber

Americans today know more about environmental pollution but less about the environment itself.
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Gray Thunder: Listening to Elephants

by Cyril Christo Photographs by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

Elephants are speaking to us. Is anyone listening?
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The Gospel of Consumption

by Jeffrey Kaplan

The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket
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Fruit: The Go-To Transitionary Fuel for a Multisensory Experience

by Adam Leith Gollner

Marketing new fruits...
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How to Be a Climate Hero

by Audrey Schulman

Don't just stand there. Do something. Do anything.
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Snap into Action for the Climate

by Mike Tidwell

The climate is shifting with terrifying speed. Can we stop it with a lightning-quick shift of our own?
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Fear of Not Having Had

by Elizabeth Farrelly

Must "stuff" define us?
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Where Have All the Joiners Gone?

by Bill McKibben

We're going to need a lot more than the occasional cup of sugar from our neighbors if the predicted future comes to pass.
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The Failure of Names

Art and text by James Prosek

Beyond the limits of Linnaeus lies a world teeming with infinite colors, shapes, and sizes.
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Celestial Spheres

by William L. Fox

Lita Albuquerque went to the Antarctic to make art that conjures the sky. With web-exclusive extra images.
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A Swamp Forest Grows in Brooklyn

by Ginger Strand Photographs by Kenta Nagai

A New York dance troupe secretly used an abandoned urban reservoir as their studio.
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Managing the Trees of Arlington Cemetery

by Elizabeth Redden

A fine collection of old trees poses some interesting issues for those managing them.
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Magpie Song

by Robert Michael Pyle

Beauty and wonder are always in the eye of the beholder—but the beholder has to choose to behold
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The Headbonker's Ball

by Matt Jenkins

Scores of native bees inhabit California's cities, and one scientist is on a crusade to help them thrive.
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Warming Comes to Town

by Lisa Jones

"Who wanted to go inside on a sunny Colorado afternoon and see an art exhibit on global warming?"
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Wayfinding

by Sherry Simpson

Like wilderness, like home.
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Treecycle

by Kyle Edwards, Iron Station, North Carolina

A business that saws lumber out of waste trees
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Seeing Stars

by Tine Thevenin, Lake City, Minnesota

Managing light pollution
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Fencing Israel

by Haim Watzman Photographs: Daniel Blatt

A fence in the desert threatens wildlife and leaves activists conflicted.
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Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won't End

by Ben Quick

The lethality of the fog that settled on South Vietnam, like so many war costs, would remain hidden.
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Kana

by Chris Dombrowski Photographs: Randy Beacham

A lyrical exploration of the wonders of nature, and a father's quest to express those to his children
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The Big Green Lie

by Auden Schendler

Even corporations that want to do the right thing are finding the economics stacked against them.
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One Nation Under Elvis

by Rebecca Solnit Photographs by Larry Mills

Environmentalists might be a lot more effective if they listened to more country music —and especially if they listened more often to country music listeners.
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From the Editors (Jan/Feb 2008)

(unsigned)

The environmental/green movement is in need of some fresh language to help establish a moral framework.
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