July/August 2007
Features
Feature
Spoon Mountain or Bust
by John Nichols
A delusional quest to reverse ten thousand years of disharmony with nature
Feature
The Tumult of Vision
Photographs by Matthew Chase-Daniel Text by David Abram
Multiple moments from the same landscape compel our participation in the montage we call nature.
Feature
Ricekeepers
by Winona LaDuke
Poling their canoes through the murky waters of patent claims and genetic contamination, the Ojibwe strive to protect the Creator's gift from corporate agriculture.
Feature
A Garden Becomes a Protest
by Fred Bahnson Photographs by Taj Forer
A defiant garden blossoms in the wake of a murder, and the roots of a sacramental life take hold.
Feature
Window of Possibility
by Anthony Doerr
Why one particular photograph should be in every classroom in the world.
Feature
Bye, Bye, Miss American Empire
by Bill Kauffman
Which way out of the current mess? Turn left (or is it right?) toward the Green Mountains and explore the patriotic territory of secession.
Feature
Death Over Dams
Photographs by Roberto Guerra Text by Ruxandra Guidi
A threat to lives and livelihoods gets a green light from the Mexican government, but the resistance is determined to stop it.
Feature
Ten Dispatches About Place
by John Berger
As Everywhere becomes Nowhere, we establish private landmarks for the presence of the eternal in daily life.
Columns
From the Faraway Nearby
Reasons Not to Glow
by Rebecca Solnit
As the energy crisis heats up, you may need a refresher on the evidence against nukes.
The Tangled Bank
Condo Picchu
by Robert Michael Pyle
Are those cozy coastal clusters of condos signs of social cohesion or extreme maladaptive behavior?
Small Change
Planet Protectors
by Bill McKibben
Protecting the planet requires expansion of our imagination
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
Everybody's Doing It
by Michelle Nijhuis
Motivations to save the planet differ; apparently, even your credit card has something to say about it. A short piece about human nature and incentive.
Sacred & Mundane
Mocking Bard
by Rachel MCCrystal
Teaching starlings to speak; and being taught BY starlings
Point of View
A Very, Very Small Opportunity
by David Rejeski
Before nanotechnology becomes part of society, let's talk about what we'd like it to do and not do.
Health and the Environment
Medicine After Oil
by Daniel Bednarz
The good news about peak oil: it may be the key to fixing our health care system
Coda
Melting a Car
by Brian Doyle
Reviews
Flower Confidential, by Amy Stewart
House of Rain, by Craig Childs
Under a Green Sky, by Peter D. Ward
Marshes, by William Burt
Untapped, by John Ghazvinian
Poetry
Wedding Poem (Epithalamium), by Chris Dombrowski
Quickening, by Jacqueline Kolosov
Crab and the Rag, by Ricardo Pau-Llosa
Visiting the Largest Live Rattlesnake Exhibit in North America, by Averill Curdy
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