Exploring the Future of Nature http://www.orionmagazine.org Orion has been described as "America's best environmental magazine". Orion is a bi-monthly print magazine that delves into the connections between politics, nature, ecology, society, values, and cultures. Podcasts are occasional, in mp3 format, and vary from a five-minute overview of a subject with an article's author to an author reading a poem or full article. en Orion Magazine swalker@orionsociety.org swalker@orionsociety.org ExpressionEngine Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:52:00 GMT 180 Orion is a bi-monthly print magazine that delves into the connections between politics, nature, ecology, society, values, and cultures. Podcasts are occasional, in mp3 format, and vary from a five-minute overview of a subject with an article's author to an author reading a poem or full article. environment, green, ecology, green living, nature, climate change, global warming, solnit, mckibben, wendell berry, nature writing Orion Magazine swalker@orionsociety.org Scott Walker Attendees at Orion's Blue Mountain Center conference Participants in the November, 2009 Orion writers retreat at the Blue Mountain Center contributed to a multi-voice podcast. Several participants were handed a digital recorder and asked to use it however they would like. The theme of the gathering was "Forget Nature Writing: Let's Talk About What Comes Next." http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5277/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:52:17 -0600 25:12 Orion Editors discuss the January/February 2010 issue of Orion Orion editors discuss the January-February 2010 issue of Orion magazine, and make some suggestions about other cool stuff they've come across. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5276/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:48:17 -0600 18:01 Beyond black-and-white thinking in the New, Old West. Amy Irvine reads her essay from the January/February 2010 Orion. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5271/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:24:17 -0600 31:34 Derrick Jensen If you're in love with the world, fall in love with trying to save it. Derrick Jensen reads his January/February 2010 Orion column. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5270/ Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:20:17 -0600 7:04 Alexi Zentner A Story Alexi Zentner reads his story from the November/December 2009 issue of Orion. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5089/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:44:59 -0500 23:21 Orion Editors discuss the November/December 2009 issue of Orion http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5088/ Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:26:59 -0500 28:20 David Abrams The author reads his essay -- in which he proposes an entirely new definition of what it means to be one with nature -- from the September/October 2009 Orion. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5055/ Fri, 18 Sep 2009 13:56:38 -0500 55:48 Editor-in-Chief H. Emerson Blake and Editor Jennifer Sahn Two Orion editors discuss the September/October 2009 issue. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5012/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 09:02:01 -0500 11:48 Joe Wilkins Growing up hard An audio recording of Joe Wilkins reading his article from the September/October 2009 Orion. Growing up in eastern Montana makes you hard -- and not necessarily in a good way. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5011/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:58:52 -0500 26:34 Lia Purpura (If you believe in coming back) Audio of the author reading her essay from the September/October 2009 issue of Orion, about the beautiful necessity of an appetite for all things. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/5010/ Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:54:52 -0500 13:24 Editor in Chief H. Emerson Blake and Editor Jennifer Sahn Editors Chip Blake and Jennifer Sahn discuss what’s in the July-August 2009 issue, including Sandra Steingraber’s surprising column on abortion and the environment, Karen Halverson’s unique photographs of Mulholland Drive, and a trio of feature articles that strike a clear-eyed note of optimism. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/4862/ Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:43:41 -0500 12:18 Kim Todd Childhood memories withstand the test of time, but a fragile species may be another story -- the July/August 2009 article "The Trumpet of the Swan" is read by the author. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/4860/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:41:11 -0500 21:57 Erik Reece The author reads "Hell, Yeah, We Want Windmills" Erik Reece reads "Hell, Yeah, We Want Windmills" which was published in the July/August 2009 Orion. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/4859/ Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:36:11 -0500 31:35 Windmills, wind-generation, coal plants, mountaintop removal, coal mining The Editors Editor-in-chief H. Emerson Blake and editor Jennifer Sahn talk about some of the highlights in, and stories behind, the May-June 2009 issue of the magazine, including: "3 Bets," by Sandra Steingraber; "Oracle in the Desert," by Craig Childs; "The Barbaric Heart," by Curtis White; "World at Gunpoint," by Derrick Jensen; "Pulverized," by Jay Griffiths; and "The Return," by Rick Bass. http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/audio-video/item/4713/ Thu, 23 Apr 2009 07:45:29 -0500 10:04