People & Place
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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.
The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie
by Michael P. Branch
How a couple of mischievous jack rabbits imbued two little girls with a sense of place and rescued their father from tedium. Also available: audio of the author reading this article. Link at top of article.
Relocating Newtok
by Mark Dowie
Photographs by Brian Adams
For a Yup'ik village situated on an eroding coastline, it's move it or lose it.
The Economics of Estuary
by Ginger Strand
Is free-market environmentalism the solution or the problem?
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.
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.
Eco City Dreaming
by David Oates
On the ways in which green building and affordable housing intersect -- or, more often, don't.
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.
Putting Things Back Together
by Rick Bass
Considering Wallace Stegner on the centennial of his birth.
One Block
Photographs and text by Dave Anderson
Can a neighborhood in New Orleans put itself back together?
Walks around the World
by Tomas Espedal, Manik Datar, Homero Aridjis, Saİt Faİk Abasiyanik, and Yuri Rytkheu
A good walk is a conversation between the walker and the environment, and here we present five "walk" pieces in translation, fiction and nonfiction, by Tomas Espedal, Manik Datar, Homero Aridjis, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Yuri Rytkheu, published in collaboration with the online magazine for international literature Words without Borders.
Ambassador of Fruit
by Alec Wilkinson
Idaho reminded Esmaeil Fallahi of Iran. Now he's helping its growers diversify their farms with surprising fruits like jujube and persimmon.
Pulverized
by Jay Griffiths
What has silenced the language of stones, and why should we want the stones to speak?
Bucking a Stiff Ebb Tide
Text and photographs by Roger Pinckney
Off the Carolina coast, it's still possible to make a real living from real fishing.
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CSI Oregon Caves
by Alison Goin
48,000 annual visitors cause one heck of a lot of aftermath deep in the Oregon Caves
Silence Like Scouring Sand
by Kathleen Dean Moore
Defending the pitter-patter, the swish, and other rarely considered natural resources.
With the Lapps in the High Mountains
Translated by Barbara Sjoholm
This early text about the nomad reindeer herders tells of the year that Emilie Demant Hatt, a Danish painter, spent among the Sámi of northern Sweden in 1907-1908.
The Fatherland of Apples
by Gary Paul Nabhan
A nonagenarian botanist fights for the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan
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
Gray Thunder: Listening to Elephants
by Cyril Christo
Photographs by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
Elephants are speaking to us. Is anyone listening?
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.
Managing the Trees of Arlington Cemetery
by Elizabeth Redden
A fine collection of old trees poses some interesting issues for those managing them.
Weeder
Photos and text by Jon Edwards
A decades-long working relationship with the slippery rocks of the Maine coast.
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