How to Be a Climate Hero

by Audrey Schulman

Don't just stand there. Do something. Do anything.

Snap into Action for the Climate

by Mike Tidwell

The climate is shifting with terrifying speed. Can we stop it with a lightning-quick shift of our own?

The Gospel of Consumption

by Jeffrey Kaplan

The urge to buy is as manufactured as the stuff you have heaped in your shopping basket

Gray Thunder: Listening to Elephants

by Cyril Christo Photographs by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson

Elephants are speaking to us. Is anyone listening?

The Fatherland of Apples

by Gary Paul Nabhan

A nonagenarian botanist fights for the wild apple forests of Kazakhstan

Sunrise on the Medicine Wheel

by Elizabeth Dodd

At an ancient site, the seasons are turning -- but something both richer and more frightening is turning, too

Going to Ground: Britain's Holloways

by Robert Macfarlane

They were at one time the busiest of routes, but now they are among the wildest niches of Britain

Rescuing Species

by Michelle Nijuis

Rescuing some species from a warming climate may mean picking them up and moving them.

Fruit: The Go-To Transitionary Fuel for a Multisensory Experience

by Adam Leith Gollner

Marketing new fruits...

Down with Descartes

by Charles Eisenstein

The distinction between humans and nature has made us both sick, but every crisis has its opportunity

Sea Stars: A Galaxy at Our Feet

by Barbara Hurd

Sea Stars: beholding a miracle as the world grinds the living into debris.

Revolutions per Minute

by Rebecca Solnit

Radical transformation is all around us, if only we'd train our eyes to look.

A Voice for Downeast Maine

by Cheryl Daigle, Bar Harbor, Maine

Dressing Locally

by Michelle Nijhuis, Paonia, Colorado

On Being Nearly Normal

by Mark Schimmoeller, Frankfort, Kentucky

Environmental Amnesia

by Sandra Steingraber

Americans today know more about environmental pollution but less about the environment itself.

Reviews

The Life of the Skies
Reinventing Los Angeles
Everything's Cool
Troubled Waters
A Naturalist and Other Beasts
Vanishing America

Poetry

Poaching by Abby Gambrel
Roots by Dorianne Laux
On Turning One by Derek Sheffield
Not Necessarily at Rest by Lance Larsen