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Fahrenheit 59
by Audrey Schulman
Can a child's fever point toward a prescription for our troubled planet?
A Rare Bird
photographs and text by Jason Houston
An innovative strategy marries a U.S. conservation group with activist in a Nicaraguan rain forest.
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."
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?
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.
Sitting Pretty
by Mac 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.
Tackling Malaria
A resource list for people wanting to know more about malaria.
The New Farm Family
The Swanton Berry Farm
When Green Is Brown
Kevin Anderson interviewed by Erik Hoffner
Interview with Kevin Anderson, Director of the Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend
The Coalition That Could
by Rebecca Clarren
The rest of the West watches as New Mexicans take on the gas drillers.
Voices from the Gas Fields
by Rebecca Clarren
photographs by Christopher LaMarca
Meet the latest victims of the nonnegotiable American way of life.
The Righteousness Fix
by Roget Lockard
From a global perspective, which addiction is setting us up for disaster fastest?
The Germs of Life
by Lynn Margulis and Emily Case
More Perfect Unions
by Rebecca Solnit
Real democracy, not representative or misrepresentative democracy, is much more possible on the smaller scale of a functioning community. And maybe only possible on that scale.
Whither Wind
by Charles Komanoff
An environmental Don Quixote goes, painfully, from tilting at windmills to believing in them.
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