March/April 2008
Features
Feature
One Nation Under Elvis
by Rebecca Solnit Photographs by Larry Mills
Environmentalists might be a lot more effective if they listened to more country music —and especially if they listened more often to country music listeners.
Feature
Fencing Israel
by Haim Watzman Photographs: Daniel Blatt
A fence in the desert threatens wildlife and leaves activists conflicted.
Feature
A Swamp Forest Grows in Brooklyn
by Ginger Strand Photographs by Kenta Nagai
A New York dance troupe secretly used an abandoned urban reservoir as their studio.
Feature
The Failure of Names
Art and text by James Prosek
Beyond the limits of Linnaeus lies a world teeming with infinite colors, shapes, and sizes.
Feature
The Headbonker's Ball
by Matt Jenkins
Scores of native bees inhabit California's cities, and one scientist is on a crusade to help them thrive.
Feature
Agent Orange: A Chapter from History That Just Won't End
by Ben Quick
The lethality of the fog that settled on South Vietnam, like so many war costs, would remain hidden.
Feature
Kana
by Chris Dombrowski Photographs: Randy Beacham
A lyrical exploration of the wonders of nature, and a father's quest to express those to his children
Feature
Celestial Spheres
by William L. Fox
Lita Albuquerque went to the Antarctic to make art that conjures the sky. With web-exclusive extra images.
Columns
The Tangled Bank
Magpie Song
by Robert Michael Pyle
Beauty and wonder are always in the eye of the beholder—but the beholder has to choose to behold
Small Change
Where Have All the Joiners Gone?
by Bill McKibben
We're going to need a lot more than the occasional cup of sugar from our neighbors if the predicted future comes to pass.
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
Warming Comes to Town
by Lisa Jones
"Who wanted to go inside on a sunny Colorado afternoon and see an art exhibit on global warming?"
Sacred & Mundane
Managing the Trees of Arlington Cemetery
by Elizabeth Redden
A fine collection of old trees poses some interesting issues for those managing them.
Point of View
The Big Green Lie
by Auden Schendler
Even corporations that want to do the right thing are finding the economics stacked against them.
Making Other Arrangements
Seed Banking
by Adrienne Shelton, Buckland, Massachusetts
Developing a seed bank for local communities.
Making Other Arrangements
Seeing Stars
by Tine Thevenin, Lake City, Minnesota
Managing light pollution
Making Other Arrangements
Treecycle
by Kyle Edwards, Iron Station, North Carolina
A business that saws lumber out of waste trees
Making Other Arrangements
Making Other Arrangements
By our readers
A new department of the magazine features Orion readers detailing their and their community's responses to climate change and peak oil.
Reviews
Spacecraft Voyager 1 by Alice Oswald
Earth Under Fire by Gary Braasch
The Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw by Bruce Barcott
In Praise of Barbarians by Mike Davis
Nobodies by John Bowe
World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler
Poetry
Doctrine by Todd Davis
Because We've Landed on the Moon but Nobody Wants to Live There by Amy Dryansky
Housekeeping by Michael Hettich
It Came Down Ice Last Night by Barbara Ras
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