The Gospel of Consumption

by Jeffrey Kaplan

The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket

How to Be a Climate Hero

by Audrey Schulman

Don't just stand there. Do something. Do anything.

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?

Fear of Not Having Had

by Elizabeth Farrelly

Must "stuff" define us?

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.

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.

Fencing Israel

by Haim Watzman
Photographs: Daniel Blatt

A fence in the desert threatens wildlife and leaves activists conflicted.

Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won’t End

by Ben Quick

The lethality of the fog that settled on South Vietnam, like so many war costs, would remain hidden.

The Big Green Lie

by Auden Schendler

Even corporations that want to do the right thing are finding the economics stacked against them.

One Nation Under Elvis

by Rebecca Solnit
Photographs by Larry Mills

Environmentalists might be a lot more effective if they listened to more country music —and especially if they listened more often to country music listeners.

Epilogue to “Send in the Clowns”

by Mark Svenvold

From the Editors (Jan/Feb 2008)

(unsigned)

The environmental/green movement is in need of some fresh language to help establish a moral framework.

Our Storied Future

by Rebecca Solnit

Eschew dichotomies and embrace the confluences that make life worth living, and dying for.

Send in the Clowns

by Mark Svenvold

The latest North American attempt at utopia is a fantastical, two-wheeled enterprise headed nowhere in particular.

Weeder

Photos and text by Jon Edwards

A decades-long working relationship with the slippery rocks of the Maine coast.

Saving Seals

by Brenda Peterson
Illustration by Michael McCurdy

Two friends keep watch over a baby seal hauled up on a beach. Both are compelled by a love of this world, though one is seduced by thoughts of the next.

The Nature of Walls

by John Piasecki

Wherever people live, they build walls. What the walls do for them, and to them, is less apparent.

If Nature Had Rights

by Cormac Cullinan
Drawings by Amy Falstrom

In a different kind of justice system, a lawyer might advocate on behalf of an aardvaark, or a river, or our atmosphere.

Extracts from Wild Law

By Cormac Cullinan

Overseer of Butterflies

by Robert Michael Pyle

Why not allow your alter ego its own occupation? The benefits, if not monetary, may be many.

Pulling the Plug

by Robert Michael Pyle

Can a successful TV-totaler make the ultimate sacrifice of electrons?

The Limits of Landscape

by Rebecca Solnit

Beyond the gallery and the picture frame, art is free to connect with everything else.

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.

Fluid Values: Battles Over Water Rights

by Matt Jenkins

When our understanding of a river's "purposes" shifts, what happens to those left high and dry?

Global Warming Is Colorblind

by Jennifer Oladipo

Why do environmentalists ignore a third of the U.S. population?