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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.
Vanilla Sound
by Ginger Strand
Putting Things Back Together
by Rick Bass
Considering Wallace Stegner on the centennial of his birth.
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?
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
The Sound of One Trickster Clapping
by Jay Griffiths
How the world tells us its news depends on how we choose to listen.
Urban Honey
by Michael S. Thompson
The Air Aware
by David Abram
In which the author proposes an entirely new definition of what it means to be one with nature.
How to Live in Your Car
by Brian Doyle
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