When Green Is Brown

Kevin Anderson interviewed by Erik Hoffner

Interview with Kevin Anderson, Director of the Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend

The Coalition That Could

by Rebecca Clarren

The rest of the West watches as New Mexicans take on the gas drillers.

Prairie Dreaming

by Hal Herring

To remake a prairie you need time, money, and a historic collision of events.

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.

The Right Side of the Law

Photos by Chris LaMarca; Text by Kathleen Dean Moore

In an unconscionable world, civil disobedience on behalf of the land we love is the new patriotism.

National Defense

by Kathleen Dean Moore

"Maybe civil disobedience isn't about justice and obligation. Maybe it's about love."

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.

Conservation Refugees

by Mark Dowie

Large conservation groups too often overlook a messy byproduct of wildland protection: People. What do you do with them?

No Two Alike

by Barbara L. Baer

The strange power of a Soviet-era scientist and his ancient, vanishing fruits

Mad Max Meets American Gothic

by Bill McKibben

The post peak-oil future looks bleak for the world economy; but perhaps less so for those who value all things local.

Our Political Environment

The Housewife Theory of History

Rebecca Solnit

Who's really been changing the world, the Lone Ranger or Erin Brokovich?

Through Different Eyes

by Thomas R. Peterson

The Klamath Debacle

by Seth Zuckerman

Protecting endangered fish adversely affects thousands of farmers.

Signs of Dementia

by Seth Zuckerman

Paradise Lost

by Rick Bass

Suddenly we're not the same nation. There is in almost all of us a place -- even if some days only a small, postage stamp-sized place—that is off-balance, frightened, pensive, even confused.

The New Amazon

by Marisa Handler

In the western Amazon, one indigenous tribe knows how to say no to Big Oil, and why. The Sarayacu of Ecuador are teaching conservationists, and other tribes, how to stand up and push back.

Pleading the First

by Janisse Ray

What we do when dissent is no longer someone else's job.

The War of the Senses

by Rick Bass

In the weeks following the presidential election of 2000, I began to keep a chart, a table of hours spent defending the homeland against the assault of the new administration.

Engagement

by Terry Tempest Williams

With a foreign policy run amok, the coming election offers a chance to question the simplistic view that what is good for business is good for humanity. Last in a three-part series.

Ground Truthing

by Terry Tempest Williams

The jagged heart of the Arctic refuge lies at the confluence of miracle and mystery. Terry Tempest Williams seeks out the soul of true democracy in part two of a three-part series.

The People’s Freeway

by Marcus Renner

The labyrinthine highways of Los Angeles have little use for pedestrians. But the pedestrians may have ideas of their own!

Acts of Hope

by Rebecca Solnit

A lot of activists expect that for every action there is an equal and opposite and punctual reaction, and regard the lack of one as failure. After all, activism is often a reaction...

Harbinger of Hope

by Marion Gilliam

Profits of Place

by Josh Harkinson

Is a kinder, gentler form of globalization really possible? Absolutely!