The Reign of the One Percenters

by Christopher Ketcham

Income inequality is stunting cultural evolution and eroding the prospects for the future of humanity. So where is the outrage?

Breaking the Spell of Money

by Scott Russell Sanders

How did material wealth become more important than life itself?

The Colonization of Kern County

by Jeremy Miller

All the oil companies in California's Central Valley do is take, take, take -- and not just oil.

The Economics of Estuary

by Ginger Strand

Is free-market environmentalism the solution or the problem?

The Curse of Bigness

by Christopher Ketcham

A dark journey into the corrosive and counterintuitive ideology of "too big to fail."

Sawdust Mountain

Photographs and text by Eirik Johnson

Salvaging a new reality in the diminished logging towns of the Pacific Northwest.

Sounds Like a Lot to Me

by Sandra Steingraber

The author shares her personal finances—and you should, too.
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A Share in the Shear

by Wendy Williams

The story of the Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm

The Crying Indian

by Ginger Strand

The scandalous story of the aluminum can, brought to you by ad executives masquerading as environmentalists.

Jurassic Park of the Free Market

by Rebecca Solnit

Like a rebellious teenager, the corporation has turned on its creators to wreak havoc and foment unrest.

Building an Anti-Economy

by Chris Carlsson

Visionaries and innovators are shaping a new economic system within the shell of the old.

Change Everything Now

Interview with Gus Speth, by Jeff Goodell

A paragon of mainstream environmentalism says it's time to get a lot more radical.

The Gospel of Consumption

by Jeffrey Kaplan

The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket

Fear of Not Having Had

by Elizabeth Farrelly

Must "stuff" define us?

Where Have All the Joiners Gone?

by Bill McKibben

We're going to need a lot more than the occasional cup of sugar from our neighbors if the predicted future comes to pass.

In Lieu of More Stuff

by Susan Donohoe, Dedham, Massachusetts

Consciously consuming less...

Stopping Coal in Its Tracks

by Ted Nace
Illustrations by Linda Zacks

Loosely affliiated, steadfast activists are drawing a firm line against new coal-fired power plants—and holding it.

If Nature Had Rights

by Cormac Cullinan
Drawings by Amy Falstrom

In a different kind of justice system, a lawyer might advocate on behalf of an aardvaark, or a river, or our atmosphere.

Extracts from Wild Law

By Cormac Cullinan

Green Grease Monkey

by Patrick Keaney, Boston, Massachusetts

Green Grease Monkey educates the public on the combined powers of waste vegetable oil, localism, and conservation.

Fluid Values: Battles Over Water Rights

by Matt Jenkins

When our understanding of a river's "purposes" shifts, what happens to those left high and dry?

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?

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.

Reasons Not to Glow

by Rebecca Solnit

As the energy crisis heats up, you may need a refresher on the evidence against nukes.

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.