January/February 2009
Features
Feature
To the Dairy Queen and Back
by John Landretti
A familiar journey can be anything but, if you pay it the proper attention.
Feature
Am I Still Here?
by Anthony Doerr
Someone might be sending you an e-mail right now. Shouldn't you check?
Feature
Uranium Mining, Native Resistance, and the Greener Path
by Winona LaDuke
While the world considers an alternative energy future, the future hangs in the balance for many indigenous communities.
Feature
Fairy Tales of the Atomic Age
by Joni Tevis
A trip through the looking glass at a Tennessee tourist attraction.
Feature
Human/Nature
by Laurel Braitman
What happens when a museum and a conservation organization join forces to dispatch artists to World Heritage sites? See the article for 9 video interviews with the artists involved.
Feature
Nuclear Caribou
by Mark Dowie
Who and what lies between the mining corporations and the uranium needed to power a nuclear renaissance?
Feature
Climate Revelations
by Auden Schendler
A self-described atheist discovers that he must bring God into the climate conversation.
Feature
LA by Car: A Farewell Tour
Photos and text by Jeff Jacobson
The defining city of the twentieth century, observed through the windshield of the twenty-first.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
A Bunny Runs Around a Tree
by Sandra Steingraber
Pondering self-reliance in the age of Velcro sneakers
From the Faraway Nearby
Elegy for a Toxic Logic
by Rebecca Solnit
The economic crisis may be the best opportunity we've had in a long while.
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
A Share in the Shear
by Wendy Williams
The story of the Martha's Vineyard Fiber Farm
Point of View
A Failure to Communicate
by Randy Olson
Activists should speak their minds, but they need to consider speaking for other body parts as well.
Making Other Arrangements
Strollers in Nature
by Laurel Dodge, Orange County, New York
The story of the Nature Strollers Family Nature Study Club
Making Other Arrangements
New Place, Old Roots
by Lauret Savoy, Holyoke, Massachusetts
A grassroots organization improves food and health for a community's Puerto Ricans
Reviews
Forecast, by Stephan Faris
Mustang, by Deanne Stillman
Bargaining for Eden, by Stephen Trimble
Red Gold, A film by Travis Rummel, Ben Knight, and Lauren Oakes
The Ecology of Wisdom, by Arne Naess, Edited by Alan Drengson and Bill Devall
A Natural Sense of Wonder, by Rick Van Noy
Poetry
Suppose You Were a Moray Eel, by Aimee Nezhukumatathil 
Before Fort Clatsop, by Michelle Bonczek
Duff, by Robert Wrigley
Tea, by Leslie Harrison
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