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.

Measuring Your Ecological Footprint

by Adam Stein

Tesco, a British company, launches a 20-point plan to address climate change, starting with a program of "carbon labeling"

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.

The Idols of Environmentalism

by Curtis White

Do environmentalists unwittingly conspire against themselves? Part one of a two-part series.

The Limits of Ethical Capitalism

by Jeff Goodell

Doing good by doing well isn't necessarily enough.

The New Farm Family

The Swanton Berry Farm

Metal Desert

text and photograph by Peter McBride

A photographer examines the plundering of metals and minerals in some of the poorest, most desolate places on Earth.

The Klamath Debacle

by Seth Zuckerman

Protecting endangered fish adversely affects thousands of farmers.

Compromise, Hell!

by Wendell Berry

A nation founded on freedom has become uncharacteristically submissive to those who would destroy it. Here's where we draw the line.

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?

Profits of Place

by Josh Harkinson

Is a kinder, gentler form of globalization really possible? Absolutely!

More is Not the Answer

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.