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 Thoreau Problem

by Rebecca Solnit

Must beauty and pleasure wait until after the revolution?

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.

Beyond the Patient

by Lee Thirer

Not just individuals but our entire society is sick.

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.

The Moss Shall Set Them Free

by Nalini M. Nadkarni

The Moss-in-Prisons project is one part of a nascent effort to counteract the destructive effects of collecting wild-grown mosses from old-growth forests for the floral trade.

The Limits of Ethical Capitalism

by Jeff Goodell

Doing good by doing well isn't necessarily enough.

Green Rage

By Matt Rasmussen
Illustrations by Linda Zacks

Were the six environmentalists sentenced to prison in Eugene, Oregon terrorists, as the government claims? Or were they first-responders to a planetary emergency?

Sanctuary and the Modern Metropolis

photographs and text by David Maisel

The urban dweller of Southern California now exists in what Davis terms the fastest growing metropolis in the western world, "with a built-up surface area nearly the size of Ireland, and a GNP bigger than India's."

The Bare Boughs of Winter Trees

by Roger Pinckney

A deathbed vigil, an unrepentant patriot, and a nuclear madness call forth questions of faith.

The Leadership Imperative

An interview with Oren Lyons, by Barry Lopez

The roots of democracy extend further back than is commonly acknowledged, to a time when leadership, spirituality, and ecology were deeply intertwined.

Tracking Tar

by William L. Fox

Beneath the streets of L.A., geology is dramatic, and more nuanced than Hollywood's most dazzling special effects make it out to be.

Fictitious Landscapes

Paintings and text by Peter Edlund

Revisiting the iconography of Ansel Adams

In Praise of Old Maps

by Paul Gilmore

Revelling in a treasure trove of maps.

Sitting Pretty

by Nicole McClelland

Will true love survive a composting toilet and other unknowable but potentially devastating sacrifices?

The Perfect Predator

by Sonia Shah

A mosquito, a parasite, and the misguided ethos that allowed both to prosper.

The Righteousness Fix

by Roget Lockard

From a global perspective, which addiction is setting us up for disaster fastest?

A Quirk in the Law

by William DeBuys

This land was their land—until the gas wells went in.

The Germs of Life

by Lynn Margulis and Emily Case

Whither Wind

by Charles Komanoff

An environmental Don Quixote goes, painfully, from tilting at windmills to believing in them.