January/February 2007

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.

Making Other Arrangements

by James Howard Kunstler photographs by David Maisel

James Howard Kunstler's plea: Get over the car and get real about living in an oil-scarce future. Read the article, then tell us (and everybody else) about your own "other arrangements" for a more sustainable life.

Fictitious Landscapes

Paintings and text by Peter Edlund

Revisiting the iconography of Ansel Adams

Whitefoot

by Wendell Berry

In a parable for our time, spring floods launch a small creature on a great adventure.

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.

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?

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.

The Greenest Noodle

by Lou Bendrick

"Organic" "processed" "foods."

In Praise of Old Maps

by Paul Gilmore

Revelling in a treasure trove of maps.

The Moss Shall Set Them Free

by Nalini M. Nadkarni

The Moss-in-Prisons project is one part of a nascent effort to counteract the destructive effects of collecting wild-grown mosses from old-growth forests for the floral trade.