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State-sponsored surveillance is a crime against individualism, creativity, and beauty.
In which Kevin Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine, suggests that technology is a product of evolution, and human culture is a product of technology.
Street scenes from the ephemeral empire captured in phone.
When the boundaries between predator and prey, wild and tame, black and white, become blurred.
What the movie adaptation of The Road says about a culture that craves such cinematic experiences.
Salvaging a new reality in the diminished logging towns of the Pacific Northwest.
How the world tells us its news depends on how we choose to listen.
A down-and-out steel town looks for a different future through embracing collapse and decay.
Growing up in eastern Montana makes you hard -- and not necessarily in a good way.
Pro-life or pro-choice, everyone can agree on one thing about abortion. And that's potentially great news for the environment.
"There is bleakness all around us. There is also extraordinary opportunity to remake the world."
Why personal change is not a substitute for political change.
Towns and cities are imagining different -- and positive -- futures in a warming, post-oil world.
Childhood memories withstand the test of time, but a fragile species may be another story.
In the heart of coal country, activists are championing an energy economy that can save mountains and save lives.
Are violence and greed too big a match for a naïve and jaded environmentalism?
What has silenced the language of stones, and why should we want the stones to speak?
In sunny Palm Springs, a retired movie star elicits reflection on the boundaries of being human. With LINKS to more about Cheeta.
How a long-ago war continues to generate casualties.
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Should children be guaranteed access to nature?
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Championing an old idea over a surrealistically modern threat.
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