A Citizen’s Response to the National Security Strategy

by Wendell Berry

The 2002 White House National Security Strategy document exposes "an American dementia that has not been so plainly displayed before."

Seeing Shadows

by Douglas Haynes

A poem and the moon inform a citizen's reflections on his government's policies...

This American Land

text by Rick Bass, Richard Nelson, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Terry Tempest Williams

My Mileage is Better than Your Mileage

by Bill McKibben

How far can you go? The American obsession with "keeping score" takes a new turn in a hybrid car.

A Body Politic

by Tabitha Thompson

Lupus is a disease in which the body, locked in mortal combat with itself, becomes the invader of healthy tissue.

When Compassion Becomes Dissent

by David James Duncan

While awaiting the further annihilation of Iraq, a writer bears witness to the effects of war-making on our language -- and on our people.

Small Wonder

by Barbara Kingsolver

In a time when the wells of human kindness seem to be running dry, Americans find themselves looking through the cross hairs of inhumanity -- in both directions. Barbara Kingsolver on nature, stillness, and foreign policy.

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.

My Summer of George

by Jenny Flynn

One citizen is determined to reach out and touch her chief executive.

On the Bosom of this Grave and Wasted Land I Will Lay My Head

by Janisse Ray

Even as the forests of her homeland are ground into woodchips and shipped across the globe, a native Georgian glimpses a wild world that once was, and dares to dream of restoration.

Listening

by Paul Hawken

Imagine an America that had been listening to the voices in the Middle East...

Honor

by Amy Godine

If compassion is a teddy bear, the softest sell of all, and resolution is a rocking horse, and honesty a big-eyed smiling doll, then honor is the tin ...

The New Economy of Nature

by Gretchen C. Daily and Katherine Ellison

The labor of nature has always been thought of as free. But a new economy that values natural systems is beginning to take shape.

Global Ethics: An American Perspective

by Peter Sauer

For decades, the international conservation community has been working to establish a global ethic that could serve as a standard for environmental treaties and laws. But why have most American environmentalists never heard of the documents they've created?

Green Across the Globe

by Polly Stupples

Last year in Canberra, Australia, activists from around the world gathered to forge the first international network of Green parties. Look out political cynicism! The author will not be the only one convinced by the results.

Bearing Witness

by Terry Tempest Williams

Terry Tempest Williams takes a look at how the Bush-Cheney energy plan plays out in wildlands adjacent to Arches and Canyonlands National Parks.

In the Wake of Man

directed by Kathryn Walker

Blue Root Real Estate

by Roger Pinckney

Roger Pinckney ponders history and development in his home in Daufuskie Island, South Carolina.

Nuts

by John Price

When it comes to sex and reproduction, we find ourselves about as close to nature as we get.

The Naturalist

by Barry Lopez

In a world invested in hypermaterialism, the naturalist's imagination is needed more than ever.

The Grid and the Village

by Stephen Doheny-Farina

The ice storm of 1998 left vast stretches of Ontario, New York, and New England without power for more than a month. It was a short time filled with enchantment. But the lights came back on, dispersing the wonder only visible in the shadows.

The Sound of Migration

by Sandra Steingraber

A pregnant ecologist turns her gaze both inward and outward, weaving observations of her own body with those of migrating birds as she undergoes amniocentesis and ponders the meaning of transitions.

Home is Where They’ll Lay Me Down

by Mike Connelly

In a world of people on the move, family members typically stretch out across nations and continents. Yet every so often, generations come home to the very same place.

Living on the Rocks

by Peter Marchand

It's time to redefine the dream home. To this man, it incorporates landscape features, recycled materials, independent water and power, and the bedrock of the human spirit.

Microbial Migrations

by Hilary French and Brian Halweil

Two million people cross a national boundary every day, and with them travel food, insects, and the bacteria that cause diseases like foot and mouth. So what can we do about it?