Household Tips from Warrior Mom!

by Sandra Steingraber

On the human tendency to belittle big problems by asking petty questions.
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Imagine

by Derrick Jensen

The first step to living differently is accepting that it can be done.
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This Culture Is #/?*#-+

by Derrick Jensen

We no longer need an outside entity to censor our most heartfelt thoughts.
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A Little Leeway

by Bill McKibben

Why better-safe-than-sorry is better than cutting it close.
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Back to the Future

by James Howard Kunstler

The cities of tomorrow will be less like The Jetsons and more like déjà vu.
Also available: audio interview with the author.
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I, Turbo

Text and photographs by Eric Wagner

In the wilds of Patagonia, a feisty penguin crosses the line between study subject and friend.
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From the Editors

A walk down Main Street with James Howard Kunstler.
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Breaking the Spell of Money

by Scott Russell Sanders

How did material wealth become more important than life itself?
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Take Back the Media

by Josh Stearns

Step aside, corporate media goliaths, and let the people control the story of our time.
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Peasant Bounty

Photographs by Bear Guerra, Text by Ruxandra Guidi

A spirited food-sovereignty movement takes root in the Haitian countryside.
Also available: audio slide show, narrated by Bear Guerra.
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When Cowboys Cry

by Sandra Steingraber

The fossil fuel-based economy is breaking hearts all over the fracking place.
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To the Rainforest Room

by Robin Hemley

If you like your cheese whizzed and your rainforests coated in polyurethane, there may be hope for you yet.
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To Live or Not to Live

by Derrick Jensen

Heroism in the age of environmental destruction is about averting tragedy, not presuming it.
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The Dawn of the Homogenocene

by Charles C. Mann

The decidedly modern economic and ecological phenomenon known as globalization has some very deep roots. Web Audio Extra: Interview with the Author.
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Wisdom in the Wild

by J.B. MacKinnon

Is it smart to eat anything that might be older than your grandmother?
Plus two audio extras.
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Irony by the Sea

by Bill McKibben

Glitzy resorts and seaside Mayan ruins cast an air of doubt on anything hopeful coming out of COP16.
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How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time

by Alex Johnson

Celebrating diversity is a lot more fun than worrying about where to take a leak.
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Mind Games

by Sandra Steingraber

If neurotoxicants in the environment were making us less smart, would we notice? And if we did, would we stop putting them on our food and in our air?
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The Age of Ooops

by Derrick Jensen

What would corporate responsibility look like if it were actually enforced?
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A Pipeline Runs Through It

by William L. Fox

An intimate encounter with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline—from mile 800 to mile 0.
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Desiccated Dreams

Photography, Text, and Audio Slide Show by Matt Black

As an unsustainable agricultural system unravels in California's Central Valley, many people's lives hang in the balance.
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Fracking Democracy

by Sandra Steingraber

In which you get 120 seconds to say why shale gas should be left in the ground.
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The Colonization of Kern County

by Jeremy Miller

All the oil companies in California's Central Valley do is take, take, take -- and not just oil.
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The Tyranny of Entitlement

by Derrick Jensen

Having a perpetual growth economy is not only insane, it is impossible.
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Track Back

by Janisse Ray

Frequent fliers of the world take note: redemption aplenty awaits those who ride the rails.
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