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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.
More Perfect Unions
by Rebecca Solnit
Real democracy, not representative or misrepresentative democracy, is much more possible on the smaller scale of a functioning community. And maybe only possible on that scale.
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.
The Nature of Violence
text by Jeffrey A. Lockwood
This thoughtful essay about violence was included in Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007.
Charlotte’s Webpage
by Lowell Monke
Computers are dramatically altering the way your children learn and experience the world -- and not for the better.
In Weather Like This
by Roger Pinckney
Believe what you want to believe. Science will catch up sooner or later.
Language Garden
by Susanne Antonetta
An orangutan with attitude meets a writer with a weakness for Shakespeare.
Compromise, Hell!
by Wendell Berry
A nation founded on freedom has become uncharacteristically submissive to those who would destroy it. Here's where we draw the line.
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.
Listening to the Other
by Gary Paul Nabhan
Though bombings and bloodbaths dominate the world stage, enduring cultural connections may illuminate the path to peace in the Middle East and elsewhere.
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!
Commencement
by Terry Tempest Williams
In a landscape cultivated by fear and lies, with language martyred to the cause of patriotism, how do we redefine the process of democracy?
Burying Miss Louise
by Roger Pinckney
In the Deep South, tribulation and transcendence are a way of life for some
Harbinger of Hope
by Marion Gilliam
Profits of Place
by Josh Harkinson
Is a kinder, gentler form of globalization really possible? Absolutely!
Got Tape?
by BK LOREN
A cherished piece of land galvanizes an uproariously disparate neighborhood against corporate interlopers.
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver
In a time when the wells of human kindness seem to be running dry, Americans find themselves looking through the cross hairs of inhumanity -- in both directions. Barbara Kingsolver on nature, stillness, and foreign policy.
The Agrarian Standard
by Wendell Berry
Agrarianism seems to be losing ground against industrial agriculture, but it remains the only land use practice that is both viable in the long-term and democratic. Twenty-five years after the publication of his seminal work, "The Unsettling of America," Berry examines what has come to pass in the interim.
On the Bosom of this Grave and Wasted Land I Will Lay My Head
by Janisse Ray
Even as the forests of her homeland are ground into woodchips and shipped across the globe, a native Georgian glimpses a wild world that once was, and dares to dream of restoration.
Listening
by Paul Hawken
Imagine an America that had been listening to the voices in the Middle East...
Honor
by Amy Godine
If compassion is a teddy bear, the softest sell of all, and resolution is a rocking horse, and honesty a big-eyed smiling doll, then honor is the tin ...
Global Ethics: An American Perspective
by Peter Sauer
For decades, the international conservation community has been working to establish a global ethic that could serve as a standard for environmental treaties and laws. But why have most American environmentalists never heard of the documents they've created?
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