Discussions
A few older discussion can be found at talkatorion.blog.com.
Once Upon a Turtle Moon
by Roger Pinckney, with photographs by Jason Houston
Off the coast of South Carolina, they've got some pretty peculiar rituals surrounding the effort to save loggerheads
12 comments
Coyotes at the Mall
by Tom Montgomery-Fate
Coyotes are migrating toward the center of where we live
5 comments
Summer of the Bagworm
by Justin Robertson
In which one man wages a scorched-earth campaign to defend three measly trees
15 comments
Pastures of Plenty
by Matt Rasmussen
Woody Guthrie was enamored of the Columbia River dams when they were being built. What would he think of them now?
11 comments
Exodus
by Charles Bowden & Julián Cardona. Photographs by Julián Cardona
The tide of humans coursing northward across the Mexican-American border is a force of nature like no other
16 comments
When Words Fail
by Bill McKibben
It's time to see what a magic number might do for our disrupted climate
228 comments
Taking Wildness in Hand: Rescuing Species
by Michelle Nijhuis
Rescuing some species from a warming climate may mean picking them up and moving them.
9 comments
Revolutions per Minute
by Rebecca Solnit
Radical transformation is all around us, if only we'd train our eyes to look.
6 comments
Bad Hair Day
by Alastair Bland
Human hair turns out to be terrific for mopping up oil spills
7 comments
The Fatherland of Apples
by Gary Paul Nabhan
A nonagenarian botanist fights for the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan
12 comments
Down with Descartes
by Charles Eisenstein
The distinction between humans and nature has made us both sick, but every crisis has its opportunity
20 comments
Sunrise on the Medicine Wheel
by Elizabeth Dodd
At an ancient site, the seasons are turning -- but something both richer and more frightening is turning, too
6 comments
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
7 comments
Environmental Amnesia
by Sandra Steingraber
Americans today know more about environmental pollution but less about the environment itself.
9 comments
Gray Thunder: Listening to Elephants
by Cyril Christo Photographs by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
Elephants are speaking to us. Is anyone listening?
28 comments
The Gospel of Consumption
by Jeffrey Kaplan
The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket
111 comments
Fruit: The Go-To Transitionary Fuel for a Multisensory Experience
by Adam Leith Gollner
Marketing new fruits...
5 comments
How to Be a Climate Hero
by Audrey Schulman
Don't just stand there. Do something. Do anything.
101 comments
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?
144 comments
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.
47 comments
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