Climate Change
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Uncertain Future
Text and photographs by Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele
Traditional reindeer herders confront a warming land
Climate Change Portfolio
Photographs by Benjamin Drummond and Sara Joy Steele
More photographs from the photographer and author of "Uncertain Future"
When Words Fail
by Bill McKibben
It's time to see what a magic number might do for our disrupted climate
Sunrise on the Medicine Wheel
by Elizabeth Dodd
At an ancient site, the seasons are turning -- but something both richer and more frightening is turning, too
Snap into Action for the Climate
by Mike Tidwell
The climate is shifting with terrifying speed. Can we stop it with a lightning-quick shift of our own?
Where Have All the Joiners Gone?
by Bill McKibben
We're going to need a lot more than the occasional cup of sugar from our neighbors if the predicted future comes to pass.
Warming Comes to Town
by Lisa Jones
"Who wanted to go inside on a sunny Colorado afternoon and see an art exhibit on global warming?"
The Big Green Lie
by Auden Schendler
Even corporations that want to do the right thing are finding the economics stacked against them.
Sex, Wives, and Climate Change
by Amy L. Seidl
Kathryn Blume’s one-woman show "The Boycott" addresses climate change.
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.
Green Grease Monkey
by Patrick Keaney, Boston, Massachusetts
Green Grease Monkey educates the public on the combined powers of waste vegetable oil, localism, and conservation.
The Unsung Solution
by Bill McKibben
An energy-saving technology takes recycling to new heights, but it has an image problem.
Global Warming Is Colorblind
by Jennifer Oladipo
Why do environmentalists ignore a third of the U.S. population?
Horse Power
by Dick Courteau
A case for elegant, four-legged energy over the kind that must be mined and refined.
Altar Call for True Believers
by Janisse Ray
Even the so-called choir seems to be failing at making great strides toward sustainability.
Medicine After Oil
by Daniel Bednarz
The good news about peak oil: it may be the key to fixing our health care system
Reasons Not to Glow
by Rebecca Solnit
As the energy crisis heats up, you may need a refresher on the evidence against nukes.
Energy Co-op, Sabbath Sustainability, Localvores in Vermont…
by Lynn Benander, Jenny Holmes, Janisse Ray
Motivated by peak oil and climate change, as well as good common sense, Orion readers envision a better future and move toward it. Read their stories in Orion's newest department, Making Other Arrangements.
Measuring Your Ecological Footprint
by Adam Stein
Tesco, a British company, launches a 20-point plan to address climate change, starting with a program of "carbon labeling"
Housing, Sailing Vessels, Survival…
by Betsy Hands, Dmitry Orlov, and Hank Lentfer
Orion readers envision the future motivated by peak oil and climate change, as well as good common sense.
The Crunch
by Bill McKibben
History may tell us that good causes have time on their side... but that was then.
Fahrenheit 59
by Audrey Schulman
Can a child's fever point toward a prescription for our troubled planet?
Whither Wind
by Charles Komanoff
An environmental Don Quixote goes, painfully, from tilting at windmills to believing in them.
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