Culture and Society
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The Tips of Your Fingers
by Jay Griffiths
State-sponsored surveillance is a crime against individualism, creativity, and beauty.
Tending the Garden of Technology
by Andrew Lawler
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.
iDubai
Photographs by Joel Sternfeld, Text by Hal Clifford
Street scenes from the ephemeral empire captured in phone.
Spectral Light
by Amy Irvine
When the boundaries between predator and prey, wild and tame, black and white, become blurred.
Zeitgeist of Doom
Reviewed by Benjamin Percy
What the movie adaptation of The Road says about a culture that craves such cinematic experiences.
Sawdust Mountain
Photographs and text by Eirik Johnson
Salvaging a new reality in the diminished logging towns of the Pacific Northwest.
The Sound of One Trickster Clapping
by Jay Griffiths
How the world tells us its news depends on how we choose to listen.
Beautiful Ruination
by Ginger Strand
A down-and-out steel town looks for a different future through embracing collapse and decay.
Out West
by Joe Wilkins
Growing up in eastern Montana makes you hard -- and not necessarily in a good way.
The Story About the One
by Sandra Steingraber
Pro-life or pro-choice, everyone can agree on one thing about abortion. And that's potentially great news for the environment.
From the Editors
July/August 2009
"There is bleakness all around us. There is also extraordinary opportunity to remake the world."
Forget Shorter Showers
by Derrick Jensen
Why personal change is not a substitute for political change.
The Transition Initiative
by Jay Griffiths
Towns and cities are imagining different -- and positive -- futures in a warming, post-oil world.
The Trumpet of the Swan
by Kim Todd
Childhood memories withstand the test of time, but a fragile species may be another story.
Hell Yeah, We Want Windmills
by Erik Reece
In the heart of coal country, activists are championing an energy economy that can save mountains and save lives.
The Barbaric Heart
by Curtis White
Are violence and greed too big a match for a naïve and jaded environmentalism?
Pulverized
by Jay Griffiths
What has silenced the language of stones, and why should we want the stones to speak?
Lunch with Cheeta
Photographs and text by Kirk Crippens
In sunny Palm Springs, a retired movie star elicits reflection on the boundaries of being human. With LINKS to more about Cheeta.
The Forbidden Forest
Photographs and text by Jonathan Olley
How a long-ago war continues to generate casualties.
FULL TEXT and slide show available.
A Walk in the Woods
by Richard Louv
Should children be guaranteed access to nature?
FULL ARTICLE AVAILABLE
Artifice v. Pastoral
by Jay Griffiths
Championing an old idea over a surrealistically modern threat.
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