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May/June 2009
Features
Feature
The Poetry of Power
by Ginger Strand, with photographs by Jason Houston
When it comes to small hydro, environmentalists are damned if they do and damned if they don't. Plus EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: A Small-Hydro Road Trip.
Feature
Lunch with Cheeta
Photographs and text by Kirk Crippens
In sunny Palm Springs, a retired movie star elicits reflection on the boundaries of being human. With LINKS to more about Cheeta.
Feature
3 Bets
by Sandra Steingraber
A successful environmental human rights movement is worth everything you can possibly wager. AUDIO EXTRA: Interview with Sandra Steingraber.
Feature
Oracle in the Desert
Text and photographs by Craig Childs
A retired cop wanders the canyons of Arizona looking for redemption. Plus AUDIO of the author reading this article.
Feature
The Barbaric Heart
by Curtis White
Are violence and greed too big a match for a naïve and jaded environmentalism?
Feature
And Oysters for All
by Jan DeBlieu
Working with the land to restore a creature of the sea -- unlikely allies unite to restore a dwindling mollusk.
Feature
The Return
by Rick Bass
Like fractal imagery, the shapes of spring repeat themselves everywhere a hungry eye can look.
Feature
Shaded by Smokestacks
Photographs and text by Stephen Brookbank
For more than a century, industry and neighborhoods have provided for each other. A short portfolio about industry and community.
Columns
Outside In
Pulverized
by Jay Griffiths
What has silenced the language of stones, and why should we want the stones to speak?
Upping the Stakes
World at Gunpoint
by Derrick Jensen
How we should live our lives is precisely the wrong question.
Departments
Point of View
Climate Justice
by Tom Athanasiou
To fix the climate, get serious about solving poverty.
Making Other Arrangements
Making Other Arrangements
by Orion Readers
In this regular features, Orion readers write about how they and their communities are responding to peak oil and climate change. In the May/June issue, "Concrete Solutions" by Kasandra Griffin, "Fruit Gleaners" by Elizabeth Grossman, and "The Tutwiler Turnaround" by Janisse Ray.
Coda
Improbable Gifts
by Susanne Antonetta
An unskeptical view of the magical garden.
Reviews
Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money, by Woody Tasch
An Everglades Providence, by Jack E. Davis
Childhood and Nature, by David Sobel
Red Desert, Edited by Annie Proulx, Photographs by Martin Stupich
Early Spring, by Amy Seidl
Thin Places, by Ann Armbrecht
A Conservationist Manifesto, by Scott Russell Sanders
Poetry
Bread Ode, by Laurie Kutchins
Possible Psalm, by Chris Dombrowski
Gardens, Passover, by Jessica Greenbaum
Snake Crossing, by Robert Cording
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