The Economics of Estuary

by Ginger Strand

Is free-market environmentalism the solution or the problem?
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Working the Line

Photographs by David Taylor Text by Luis Alberto Urrea

Ride shotgun with the U.S. Border Patrol and forget what you thought you knew about the men in green.
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Redemption Songs

by Erik Reece

Can music save mountains? Emmylou Harris is determined to find out.
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Dark Horse

by Lisa Couturier

A disturbing look at the world of auctions and slaughter, where horses are flipped like real estate.
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Duty Dodgers

by Bill McKibben

Congress may just be too lazy to take action on the largest problem humans have ever faced.
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Instead of Suns, the Earth

by Christopher Cokinos

Science fiction casts its gaze downward, toward the home planet and its sketchy future.
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Calamity on the Colorado

Text by James Powell, photographs by Peter M. McBride

Beneath the shrinking waters of Lake Powell, a massive problem is building.
With added photos and Peter McBride's audio slideshow.
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Calling All Fanatics

by Derrick Jensen

How can crusaders take time out to enjoy the Earth when so few people are out there fighting?
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Maori Eels

Text and art by James Prosek

The Maori of New Zealand seek their own renewal in the restoration of a powerful and mysterious creature.
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Conservation and Eugenics

by Charles Wohlforth

Tracing the roots of environmentalism back to a very unpleasant historical truth.
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Eco City Dreaming

by David Oates

On the ways in which green building and affordable housing intersect -- or, more often, don't.
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Shale Game

by Sandra Steingraber

Four ways of looking at a natural gas deposit.
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Theses on Sustainability

by Eric Zencey

We all love it. Everyone says they want it. So we might want to get very clear on what it actually is.
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High on Progress

by Derrick Jensen

Does the addiction serve the addict, or vice-versa?
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A Mind in the Water

by D. Graham Burnett

The shocking double life of the dolphin, featuring neuropsychologists, hippies, spies, and extraterrestrials.
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Underwater

Photographs by Karen Glaser

Slide show: what lurks above the waterline, as seen from below.
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From the Editors

For Orion, nature and environment are a context...
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The Only Way to Have a Cow

by Bill McKibben

What a new meat ethic could mean for the atmosphere.
Will be published on the website April 1.
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Get a (Second) Life

by Mac McClelland

Tens of thousands of people are living in another world. Should you, too?
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The Curse of Bigness

by Christopher Ketcham

A dark journey into the corrosive and counterintuitive ideology of "too big to fail."
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Resistance Resisters

by Derrick Jensen

A note to those who still believe that change will come without a fight.
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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.
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Cloudy Is the Stuff of Stones

by Anthony Doerr

Looking into the eyes of pebbles, in search of some immutable truth.
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The Tips of Your Fingers

by Jay Griffiths

State-sponsored surveillance is a crime against individualism, creativity, and beauty.
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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.
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