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The Fall of a Sparrow

by Sandra Steingraber

Notes on a ubiquitous avian neighbor and sometime friend.
18 comments

Our Storied Future

by Rebecca Solnit

Eschew dichotomies and embrace the confluences that make life worth living, and dying for.
7 comments

In Lieu of More Stuff

by Susan Donohoe, Dedham, Massachusetts

Consciously consuming less...
15 comments

A Sun-Powered Campus

by Lise Goddard, Los Olivos, California

A middle-school leads the way in energy conservation
1 comments

Connecting Cow to Consumer

by David Givens, Greensburg, Kentucky

The work of Green River Cattle Company enables consumers to trust the source of their food.
6 comments

Resources for Coal Fighters

by Ted Nace


9 comments

Disappearing Animal Migrations

by David S. Wilcove

The world's greatest migrations are fading before our unseeing eyes.
4 comments

Stopping Coal in Its Tracks

by Ted Nace Illustrations by Linda Zacks

Loosely affliiated, steadfast activists are drawing a firm line against new coal-fired power plants—and holding it.
47 comments

Send in the Clowns

by Mark Svenvold

The latest North American attempt at utopia is a fantastical, two-wheeled enterprise headed nowhere in particular.
19 comments

Weeder

Photos and text by Jon Edwards

A decades-long working relationship with the slippery rocks of the Maine coast.
11 comments

Healing Sculpture

by Daniel McCormick

Creekside creations give nature a boost, then slowly disappear.
11 comments

Saving Seals

by Brenda Peterson Illustration by Michael McCurdy

Two friends keep watch over a baby seal hauled up on a beach. Both are compelled by a love of this world, though one is seduced by thoughts of the next.
12 comments

The Nature of Walls

by John Piasecki

Wherever people live, they build walls. What the walls do for them, and to them, is less apparent.
46 comments

If Nature Had Rights

by Cormac Cullinan Drawings by Amy Falstrom

In a different kind of justice system, a lawyer might advocate on behalf of an aardvaark, or a river, or our atmosphere.
53 comments

Of Blood and Bone

by Joe Wilkins

The cycle of birth and hard life and death
10 comments

Overseer of Butterflies

by Robert Michael Pyle

Why not allow your alter ego its own occupation? The benefits, if not monetary, may be many.
26 comments

Serenading Belugas in the White Sea

by David Rothenberg
Photographs by Anna Koivisto

A clarinetist ventures forth to make music with the white whales of the White Sea
24 comments

Zen and the Art of Compromise

by Ginger Strand


8 comments

Pulling the Plug

by Robert Michael Pyle

Can a successful TV-totaler make the ultimate sacrifice of electrons?
20 comments

The Limits of Landscape

by Rebecca Solnit

Beyond the gallery and the picture frame, art is free to connect with everything else.
12 comments

Activism's Paradox Mountain

by Rick Bass

An activist pauses to consider the contradictions of a life bent on saving that which we are also apt to consume.
18 comments

The Unsung Solution

by Bill McKibben

An energy-saving technology takes recycling to new heights, but it has an image problem.
29 comments

Fluid Values: Battles Over Water Rights

by Matt Jenkins

When our understanding of a river's "purposes" shifts, what happens to those left high and dry?
25 comments

Global Warming Is Colorblind

by Jennifer Oladipo

Why do environmentalists ignore a third of the U.S. population?
62 comments

Reclaiming a Toxic Legacy Through Art and Science

by Erik Reece

It takes more than science to reclaim a toxic coal field and a sense of pride in an Appalachian town.
12 comments

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