November/December 2008
Features
Feature
Silence Like Scouring Sand
by Kathleen Dean Moore
Defending the pitter-patter, the swish, and other rarely considered natural resources.
Feature
The Crying Indian
by Ginger Strand
The scandalous story of the aluminum can, brought to you by ad executives masquerading as environmentalists.
Feature
The Commute
by David J. Perlman
Cycling is a method not just of transport, but of transcendence.
Feature
The Rights of the Land
by Robin Kimmerer
The Onondaga Nation goes to court to fight for the right to heal its ancestral territory.
Feature
Under the Fence
Photographs and text by Jason Benjamin Smith
A small river connects a divided landscape.
Feature
Notes from a Very Small Island
by Erik Reece
One man, one tin cup, one canoe, and an exegesis on the difference between merely existing and truly being in this world.
Feature
A Bomb's Eye View
Paintings and text by Scott Bailey
Satellite imagery as messenger and muse.
Columns
From the Faraway Nearby
The Most Radical Thing You Can Do
by Rebecca Solnit
The word radical comes from the Latin word for root; can deciding to stay home be radical?
Small Change
Multiplication Saves the Day
by Bill McKibben
Good news! It will only take a few of us to save the planet.
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
Awesome Activism
by Katrina Vandenberg
Project for Awesome: the day the nerds took over YouTube.
Sacred & Mundane
CSI Oregon Caves
by Alison Goin
48,000 annual visitors cause one heck of a lot of aftermath deep in the Oregon Caves
Point of View
Destined for Failure
by Jason Peters
The ivory tower is leaning, but we can set things straight.
Making Other Arrangements
The Sustainability Revolution
by Greg Gordon
The revolution of Nuevo Horizonte
Making Other Arrangements
Pedal People
by Elissa Alford, Northampton, MA
Pedal-power applied to waste removal
Making Other Arrangements
From Handouts to How-to
by Kyle Boelte, Tucson, AZ
Gardens as a part of the sustainability revolution
Coda
The Greatest Nature Essay Ever
by Brian Doyle
. . .would begin with an image so startling and lovely and wondrous that you would stop. . .
Reviews
Meat: A Love Story by Susan Bourette
Because the Cat Purrs by Janet Lembke
Leaving Resurrection by Eva Saulitis
Central Park in the Dark by Marie Winn
Tuna: A Love Story and The Last Fish Tale Tuna is by Richard Ellis;
The Last Fish Tale is by Mark Kurlansky
Wayfare by Pattiann Rogers
Poetry
Winter Is a Big Empty House by Emily Wheeler
My Sister by James Galvin
At the Pond by Mary Oliver
New World by Jim Harrison
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