Culture and Society
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Finding Time
by Rebecca Solnit
How will we get back what we've lost if we're too busy to notice it's gone missing?
Lessons from the New World
by Gina Cassidy
The successors of the settlers who starved among America's abundance have yet to learn the true art of survival.
Land, Farmer, Community: A Sacred Trust
Photograph and text by Lisa M. Hamilton
Japanese families join with farmers in a spiritual practice whose goal is nothing short of world peace.
Regenerative Design
by Amy L. Seidl, Huntington, VT
LivingFuture and Teal Farm are modeling sustainability by mimicking and creating living systems
Altar Call for True Believers
by Janisse Ray
Even the so-called choir seems to be failing at making great strides toward sustainability.
What’s the Use of Pets?
by Ginger Strand
In a bazaar that offers everything imaginable (and then some) for pets, you could forget why we domesticated them in the first place.
Unplugged Schools
by Lowell Monke
What role can education play in combatting the alienation bred by a technology-obsessed culture?
Condo Picchu
by Robert Michael Pyle
Are those cozy coastal clusters of condos signs of social cohesion or extreme maladaptive behavior?
Medicine After Oil
by Daniel Bednarz
The good news about peak oil: it may be the key to fixing our health care system
A Very, Very Small Opportunity
by David Rejeski
Before nanotechnology becomes part of society, let's talk about what we'd like it to do and not do.
A Garden Becomes a Protest
by Fred Bahnson
Photographs by Taj Forer
A defiant garden blossoms in the wake of a murder, and the roots of a sacramental life take hold.
Reasons Not to Glow
by Rebecca Solnit
As the energy crisis heats up, you may need a refresher on the evidence against nukes.
Everybody’s Doing It
by Michelle Nijhuis
Motivations to save the planet differ; apparently, even your credit card has something to say about it. A short piece about human nature and incentive.
Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
by Bill Kauffman
Which way out of the current mess? Turn left (or is it right?) toward the Green Mountains and explore the patriotic territory of secession.
Ten Dispatches About Place
by John Berger
As Everywhere becomes Nowhere, we establish private landmarks for the presence of the eternal in daily life.
Ricekeepers
by Winona LaDuke
Poling their canoes through the murky waters of patent claims and genetic contamination, the Ojibwe strive to protect the Creator's gift from corporate agriculture.
Burgers à la Thomas Jefferson
An interview with Tod Murphy
A Vermont diner embodies one farmer's faith in the nexus of food, democracy, and community.
The Ecology of Work
by Curtis White
Abandoning those cubicles and the consumerism they fuel could help the environmental movement, but better yet, it will invariably make us more human. Second of two parts.
To Remake the World
by Paul Hawken
Unheralded and often ignored, the largest movement in history is marching, meeting, creating, and resisting in order to safeguard nature and ensure justice.
Intolerable Beauty
photographs by Chris Jordan
interview by Jörg Colberg
The images here are drawn from Chris Jordan's Intolerable Beauty series, a photographic statement about American mass consumption.
The War Against Oblivion
by Rebecca Solnit
When distant horrors fail to move us, we're in need of a serious reality check.
The Idols of Environmentalism
by Curtis White
Do environmentalists unwittingly conspire against themselves? Part one of a two-part series.
Making Other Arrangements
by James Howard Kunstler
photographs by David Maisel
James Howard Kunstler's plea: Get over the car and get real about living in an oil-scarce future. Read the article, then tell us (and everybody else) about your own "other arrangements" for a more sustainable life.
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