Culture and Society
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High-Tech Wasteland
by Elizabeth Grossman
It's the Information Age! So why can't we find information on what to do with our obsolete hardware?
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.
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?
Acts of Hope
by Rebecca Solnit
A lot of activists expect that for every action there is an equal and opposite and punctual reaction, and regard the lack of one as failure. After all, activism is often a reaction...
Burying Miss Louise
by Roger Pinckney
In the Deep South, tribulation and transcendence are a way of life for some
Profits of Place
by Josh Harkinson
Is a kinder, gentler form of globalization really possible? Absolutely!
Law of the Land
by David W. Orr
It may be immoral to sell off or destroy resources that belong to our children and their children, but shouldn't it be illegal as well?
Consent of the Governed
By JEFFREY KAPLAN
As corporations gain in power--and in control over our lives and livelihoods--the notion of democratic governance seems more and more quaint. But some don't see it that way.
Weaving Basra
text and photo by Meghan Nuttall Sayres
Threading together a holy city even as violence tears it apart, a weaver finds the spirit of an ancient Sufi poet amidst the rubble.
Yangtze Farewell
by Penelope Grenoble O'Malley
The waters of the Yangtze are closing fast over two millenia of history--and any chance for second thoughts about China's energy needs.
The Joseph Strategy
by David Ehrenfeld
Blackouts anyone? Even as the sun is setting on the cheap energy economy, no one is asking the hard questions.
Notes on the Subject of Contrails
by Matt Rasmussen
On the day the sky stood still, should we have been paying more attention?
In Law We Trust
by MARK DOWIE
With the privatization of natural resources sweeping the nation like a new dance, it's time to polish up a venerable legal weapon.
Robotic Iguanas
by Julia Corbett
Lights, camera, nature experience! A rainforest in the burbs--with margaritas.
A Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy
by Wendell Berry
The 2002 White House National Security Strategy document exposes "an American dementia that has not been so plainly displayed before."
A Body Politic
by Tabitha Thompson
Lupus is a disease in which the body, locked in mortal combat with itself, becomes the invader of healthy tissue.
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.
My Summer of George
by Jenny Flynn
One citizen is determined to reach out and touch her chief executive.
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...
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?
Bearing Witness
by Terry Tempest Williams
Terry Tempest Williams takes a look at how the Bush-Cheney energy plan plays out in wildlands adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.
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