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May/June 2007

Features

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read article Being on the Land

Photographs and text by Robert Semeniuk

By going out on the land, the Inuit enact archetypal connections that are more universal than they appear.

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read article The Ecology of Work

by Curtis White

Abandoning those cubicles and the consumerism they fuel could help the environmental movement, but better yet, it will invariably make us more human. Second of two parts.

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read article Burgers à la Thomas Jefferson

An interview with Tod Murphy

A Vermont diner embodies one farmer's faith in the nexus of food, democracy, and community.

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read article To Remake the World

by Paul Hawken

Unheralded and often ignored, the largest movement in history is marching, meeting, creating, and resisting in order to safeguard nature and ensure justice.

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read article The Consolations of Extinction

by Christopher Cokinos

Feeling responsible for saving the entire biosphere can be a real drag, but one can take comfort in those who've come and gone before.

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read article Polymers Are Forever

by Alan Weisman

There was hardly any prior to 1945, but it may now be the most ubiquitous man-made substance on Earth.

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Nature Restructured

Sculpture and text by Bryan Nash Gill

An artist's give and take with the natural world releases the hidden beauty of things.

Columns

From the Faraway Nearby

read article The Thoreau Problem

by Rebecca Solnit

Must beauty and pleasure wait until after the revolution?

The Tangled Bank

read article Book Tourist

by Robert Michael Pyle

An author with an offering ventures out into the world of readers.

Departments

Sacred & Mundane

read article Measuring Your Ecological Footprint

by Adam Stein

Tesco, a British company, launches a 20-point plan to address climate change, starting with a program of "carbon labeling"

Sacred & Mundane

read article Low Life

by Julia Whitty

A visit to Tuvalu, which climate change threatens with extinction.

Sacred & Mundane

read article Telltales

by Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel

Alyce Santoro, inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, creates Sonic Fabric

Point of View

read article Think Like an Ocean

by Andi McDaniel

How will we steward a realm that's vast beyond comprehension?

Health and the Environment

read article A Place-Based Malady

by Gregg Mitman

In the battle to breathe easy, the allergies seem to be winning.

Making Other Arrangements

read article Energy Co-op, Sabbath Sustainability, Localvores in Vermont...

by Lynn Benander, Jenny Holmes, Janisse Ray

Motivated by peak oil and climate change, as well as good common sense, Orion readers envision a better future and move toward it. Read their stories in Orion's newest department, Making Other Arrangements.

Orion Grassroots Network

Social Justice: Now More than Ever

Interview by Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network

Profile of Project South

Coda

read article The Tortilla Cycle

by Rebecca Allen

In Guatemala, corn is the stuff of life, and tortillas....

Reviews

go to review Swimming in Circles, by Paul Molyneaux
go to review The Creation, by Edward O. Wilson
go to review Truck, by Michael Perry
go to review American Conservatism, edited by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson
go to review The Chances of the World Changing, by Eric Daniel Metzgar & Nell Carden Grey
go to review Back on the Fire, by Gary Snyder

Poetry

go to poem Lilacs, by John Skoyles
go to poem The Rest of Life, by Tony Hoagland
go to poem Thirty Second Concert, by Robert Cording
go to poem Snapper, by Nicky Conroy