Feature

Losing Home

by Melissa Holbrook Pierson

Place is physical before it is emotional, which is why losing one feels like a punch in the gut.

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He Sets Me in the Stream

by David James Duncan

Way down below the sawmills and churches and baseball diamonds there's a watery place called The Wind.

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Unplugged Schools

by Lowell Monke

What role can education play in combatting the alienation bred by a technology-obsessed culture?

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Land, Farmer, Community: A Sacred Trust

Photograph and text by Lisa M. Hamilton

Japanese families join with farmers in a spiritual practice whose goal is nothing short of world peace.

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Structural Poetry

Paintings and text by Zsuzsanna Szegedi

Seen from a propitious angle, the bare bones of trees reveal the beauty of aging.

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Altar Call for True Believers

by Janisse Ray

Even the so-called choir seems to be failing at making great strides toward sustainability.

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Horse Power

by Dick Courteau

A case for elegant, four-legged energy over the kind that must be mined and refined.

Feature

What's the Use of Pets?

by Ginger Strand

In a bazaar that offers everything imaginable (and then some) for pets, you could forget why we domesticated them in the first place.

Each Other—Where We Are

The Rabies Principle

by Sandra Steingraber

Why there is no number for the Cancer Prevention Hotline in the front of the phone book.

From the Faraway Nearby

Finding Time

by Rebecca Solnit

How will we get back what we've lost if we're too busy to notice it's gone missing?

The Tangled Bank

License to Kill

by Robert Michael Pyle

Killing other creatures, whether direct or by proxy, are an inevitable part of being among the living.

Sacred & Mundane

Self-Portrait as Revealed by Trash

For 365 days, every time Tim Gaudreau threw something away, he photographed it.

Point of View

Lessons from the New World

by Gina Cassidy

The successors of the settlers who starved among America's abundance have yet to learn the true art of survival.

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.

Coda

Gathering Berries

by Aleria Jensen

Gratitude in the muskeg