People & Place
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Condo Picchu
by Robert Michael Pyle
Are those cozy coastal clusters of condos signs of social cohesion or extreme maladaptive behavior?
Telltales
by Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel
Alyce Santoro, inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, creates Sonic Fabric
Burgers à la Thomas Jefferson
An interview with Tod Murphy
A Vermont diner embodies one farmer's faith in the nexus of food, democracy, and community.
Being on the Land
Photographs and text by Robert Semeniuk
By going out on the land, the Inuit enact archetypal connections that are more universal than they appear.
A Day of Discovery
by Richard Preston
Slogging for hours through dense, unforgiving forest, two lost naturalists find the botanical mother lode: the largest living things on earth.
Making Other Arrangements
by James Howard Kunstler
photographs by David Maisel
James Howard Kunstler's plea: Get over the car and get real about living in an oil-scarce future. Read the article, then tell us (and everybody else) about your own "other arrangements" for a more sustainable life.
Nicaragua’s Remote Río San Juan
text and photographs by Jason Houston
The Río San Juan region in southeastern Nicaragua is one of the wildest, most remote areas in Central America.
A Rare Bird
photographs and text by Jason Houston
An innovative strategy marries a U.S. conservation group with activist in a Nicaraguan rain forest.
Sanctuary and the Modern Metropolis
photographs and text by David Maisel
The urban dweller of Southern California now exists in what Davis terms the fastest growing metropolis in the western world, "with a built-up surface area nearly the size of Ireland, and a GNP bigger than India's."
Tracking Tar
by William L. Fox
Beneath the streets of L.A., geology is dramatic, and more nuanced than Hollywood's most dazzling special effects make it out to be.
Voices from the Gas Fields
by Rebecca Clarren
photographs by Christopher LaMarca
Meet the latest victims of the nonnegotiable American way of life.
Of Mites and Men
by Bill McKibben
The work of bees has become a global market commodity, as have mite infestation of hives, its cures, and the cures for the cures. McKibben follows the cycle of cause and consequence.
Chores
by Debra Marquart
Growing up on a North Dakota farm, chores are always plural. But so are the joys of learning things not available to most people today.
Cactus Chronicles
by Edward Abbey
The iconoclastic author left behind a stew of epistolary indiscretions filled with wit and wisdom. Published here for the first time.
Poison
by Gary Wockner
Memories of Malathion: A chain-smoking, speed-mad father and a wind that tasted like death.
Love Song of the Agave
text and photograph by Douglas Menuez
In the northern Mexican town of Tequila, an unwavering tradition yields a fruit in perfect harmony with its culture.
Moving Mountains
by Erik Reece
The battle for justice come to the coal fields of Appalachia. Trapped in an avalanche of collusion, Appalachians suffer poverty, sickness, and death at the hands of soulless coal corporations.
Metal Desert
text and photograph by Peter McBride
A photographer examines the plundering of metals and minerals in some of the poorest, most desolate places on Earth.
Birding Babylon
text and photograph by Jonathan Trouern-Trend
If you wear full body armor and dodge the mortar fire, Iraq's a great place to go to add to your life list.
The Klamath Debacle
by Seth Zuckerman
Protecting endangered fish adversely affects thousands of farmers.
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