January/February 2007
Features
Feature
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?
Feature
Fictitious Landscapes
Paintings and text by Peter Edlund
Revisiting the iconography of Ansel Adams
Feature
The Bare Boughs of Winter Trees
by Roger Pinckney
A deathbed vigil, an unrepentant patriot, and a nuclear madness call forth questions of faith.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
Whitefoot
by Wendell Berry
In a parable for our time, spring floods launch a small creature on a great adventure.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Columns
From the Faraway Nearby
Some Monsters Die Slowly
by Rebecca Solnit
As the average attention span grows ever shorter, we're apt to miss out on many happy endings.
The Tangled Bank
The Territory of Tint
by Robert Michael Pyle
What constitutes a Kodak moment may range widely among humans, even wider among Fidos and fritillaries.
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
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.
Point of View
The Limits of Ethical Capitalism
by Jeff Goodell
Doing good by doing well isn't necessarily enough.
Health and the Environment
Fahrenheit 59
by Audrey Schulman
Can a child's fever point toward a prescription for our troubled planet?
Blueprint for Change
Homegrown Standards
by Ari LeVaux
"Organic" takes on new meaning as it returns to its local roots.
Orion Grassroots Network
Limestone Cowboy
an interview with Robert Hughes
Spotlight: Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation
Coda
Identity's Edge
by Andrea Jones
There should be more than this flimsy dermal bubble separating the vastness of the cosmos from the throb of blood and consciousness that is you.
Reviews
Strong Is Your Hold by Galway Kinnell
Capitalism 3.0 by Peter Barnes
Zoro's Field by thomas rain crowe
The Lives of Rocks by Rick Bass
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
A Road Runs Through It edited by thomas reed petersen
Poetry
First Freeze by John Calderazzo
Seed Savers by Talvikki Ansel
Parking Lot In Snow by Lia Purpura
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