Get a (Second) Life

by Mac McClelland

Tens of thousands of people are living in another world. Should you, too?

The Curse of Bigness

by Christopher Ketcham

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

Resistance Resisters

by Derrick Jensen

A note to those who still believe that change will come without a fight.

Return to the Center of the World

Photographs and Text by Carolyn Drake

A cautionary tale, inscribed in and along two of Central Asia's most storied rivers. Website exclusive: audio slide show, narrated by the photographer.

Cloudy Is the Stuff of Stones

by Anthony Doerr

Looking into the eyes of pebbles, in search of some immutable truth.

Geese Police

by Rachel Graves

Housing for the Long Haul

by Stefan Milkowski

The Tips of Your Fingers

by Jay Griffiths

State-sponsored surveillance is a crime against individualism, creativity, and beauty.

Tending the Garden of Technology

by Andrew Lawler

In which Kevin Kelly, a founder of Wired magazine, suggests that technology is a product of evolution, and human culture is a product of technology.

iDubai

Photographs by Joel Sternfeld, Text by Hal Clifford

Street scenes from the ephemeral empire captured in phone.

Spectral Light

by Amy Irvine

When the boundaries between predator and prey, wild and tame, black and white, become blurred.

50 Simple Ways to Get Off

by Derrick Jensen

A kind of love affair that won't break hearts, but might save species. With AUDIO.

Zeitgeist of Doom

Reviewed by Benjamin Percy

What the movie adaptation of The Road says about a culture that craves such cinematic experiences.

Ecological Inheritance

by Sandra Steingraber

How we live can shape our descendants.

Savage Disobedience

by Eric Wagner

Wayne Johnson killed a whale to make a point.

Vanilla Sound

by Ginger Strand

Putting Things Back Together

by Rick Bass

Considering Wallace Stegner on the centennial of his birth.

Playing for Keeps

by Derrick Jensen

Would we listen to nature if our lives depended on it?

Mind in the Forest

by Scott Russell Sanders

Very old trees can teach us some things about ourselves.

One Block

Photographs and text by Dave Anderson

Can a neighborhood in New Orleans put itself back together?

The Clearing

by Alexi Zentner

A man, a mission, and a knowledgeable dog.

Take the Plunge

by Bill McKibben

Creative outbursts of activism are more than fun, they’re necessary.

Sawdust Mountain

Photographs and text by Eirik Johnson

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

Acorn Bread

by Joni Tevis

"It is good to return to a familiar place and find something sowed with a generous hand."

Project Sprout

by Natalie Akers, Sarah Steadman, Sam Levin, and Ben Fish