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Peasant Bounty
Photographs by Bear Guerra, Text by Ruxandra Guidi
A spirited food-sovereignty movement takes root in the Haitian countryside.
Also available: audio slide show, narrated by Bear Guerra.
When Cowboys Cry
by Sandra Steingraber
The fossil fuel-based economy is breaking hearts all over the fracking place.
To the Rainforest Room
by Robin Hemley
If you like your cheese whizzed and your rainforests coated in polyurethane, there may be hope for you yet.
To Live or Not to Live
by Derrick Jensen
Heroism in the age of environmental destruction is about averting tragedy, not presuming it.
The Dawn of the Homogenocene
by Charles C. Mann
The decidedly modern economic and ecological phenomenon known as globalization has some very deep roots. Web Audio Extra: Interview with the Author.
Wisdom in the Wild
by J.B. MacKinnon
Is it smart to eat anything that might be older than your grandmother?
Plus two audio extras.
Without a Car
Photographs by Diane Meyer
Forsaking the automobile in the drive-thru City of Angels. Web extra: audio slide show, with interview and extra images.
Irony by the Sea
by Bill McKibben
Glitzy resorts and seaside Mayan ruins cast an air of doubt on anything hopeful coming out of COP16.
How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time
by Alex Johnson
Celebrating diversity is a lot more fun than worrying about where to take a leak.
Mind Games
by Sandra Steingraber
If neurotoxicants in the environment were making us less smart, would we notice? And if we did, would we stop putting them on our food and in our air?
The Age of Ooops
by Derrick Jensen
What would corporate responsibility look like if it were actually enforced?
A Pipeline Runs Through It
by William L. Fox
An intimate encounter with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline—from mile 800 to mile 0.
Desiccated Dreams
Photography, Text, and Audio Slide Show by Matt Black
As an unsustainable agricultural system unravels in California's Central Valley, many people's lives hang in the balance.
Fracking Democracy
by Sandra Steingraber
In which you get 120 seconds to say why shale gas should be left in the ground.
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 Tyranny of Entitlement
by Derrick Jensen
Having a perpetual growth economy is not only insane, it is impossible.
Track Back
by Janisse Ray
Frequent fliers of the world take note: redemption aplenty awaits those who ride the rails.
The Adventures of Peavine and Charlie
by Michael P. Branch
How a couple of mischievous jack rabbits imbued two little girls with a sense of place and rescued their father from tedium. Also available: audio of the author reading this article. Link at top of article.
Burial & Flight
Photographs and text by Jake Price
As rural communities worldwide contract, something essential is going missing from our collective experience. Accompanied by a slide show containing extra images.
Relocating Newtok
by Mark Dowie
Photographs by Brian Adams
For a Yup'ik village situated on an eroding coastline, it's move it or lose it.
The Gulf Between Us
by Terry Tempest Williams
Photographs by J Henry Fair
Oil spill stories from the Gulf Coast that underscore one thing: this moment belongs to us all.
Accompanied by an audio slide show including extra images, narrated by photographer J Henry Fair.
There Are Things Awry Here
by Lia Purpura
In which the author attempts to access narratives of place that have been overwritten by strip malls.
Also available: audio extra of the author reading this article.
New Dog in Town
by Christopher Ketcham
Photographs by Trish Carney
Coyotes are moving into the city, adopting urban habits, and in New York they seem to like golf.
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