May/June 2007
Features
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
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.
Feature
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
The Thoreau Problem
by Rebecca Solnit
Must beauty and pleasure wait until after the revolution?
The Tangled Bank
Book Tourist
by Robert Michael Pyle
An author with an offering ventures out into the world of readers.
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
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
Low Life
by Julia Whitty
A visit to Tuvalu, which climate change threatens with extinction.
Sacred & Mundane
Telltales
by Kisha Lewellyn Schlegel
Alyce Santoro, inspired by Tibetan prayer flags, creates Sonic Fabric
Point of View
Think Like an Ocean
by Andi McDaniel
How will we steward a realm that's vast beyond comprehension?
Health and the Environment
A Place-Based Malady
by Gregg Mitman
In the battle to breathe easy, the allergies seem to be winning.
Making Other Arrangements
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
Reviews
Swimming in Circles, by Paul Molyneaux
The Creation, by Edward O. Wilson
Truck, by Michael Perry
American Conservatism, edited by Bruce Frohnen, Jeremy Beer, and Jeffrey O. Nelson
The Chances of the World Changing, by Eric Daniel Metzgar & Nell Carden Grey
Back on the Fire, by Gary Snyder
Poetry
Lilacs, by John Skoyles
The Rest of Life, by Tony Hoagland
Thirty Second Concert, by Robert Cording
Snapper, by Nicky Conroy
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