July/August 2009
Features
Feature
The Transition Initiative
by Jay Griffiths
Towns and cities are imagining different -- and positive -- futures in a warming, post-oil world.
Feature
The Trumpet of the Swan
by Kim Todd
Childhood memories withstand the test of time, but a fragile species may be another story.
Feature
World at Dawn
by Diane Ackerman
The subtle delights of the ghostly realm between night and day.
Feature
Hell Yeah, We Want Windmills
by Erik Reece
In the heart of coal country, activists are championing an energy economy that can save mountains and save lives.
Feature
Ambassador of Fruit
by Alec Wilkinson
Idaho reminded Esmaeil Fallahi of Iran. Now he's helping its growers diversify their farms with surprising fruits like jujube and persimmon.
Feature
A Ruthless Elegance
Text by Ann Pancake, Photographs by Richard Stevens
Can something as tragic as mountaintop removal mining be depicted as beautiful? Novelist Ann Pancake writes about the photographs of Richard Stevens.
Feature
Mulholland's View
Photographs by Karen Halverson, Text by William L. Fox
Karen Halvorson's photographs reveal a famed Los Angeles thoroughfare to be as wild as it is domestic.
Feature
Digital Gardens
Photographs by Susan Felter
Borrowing a trick from Dutch still-life painters, a photographer stitches together surprising tableaus of flora and fauna.
Columns
Each Other — Where We Are
The Story About the One
by Sandra Steingraber
Pro-life or pro-choice, everyone can agree on one thing about abortion. And that's potentially great news for the environment.
Small Change
Beyond Radical
by Bill McKibben
Conservatives have a lot to offer the climate change movement.
Upping the Stakes
Forget Shorter Showers
by Derrick Jensen
Why personal change is not a substitute for political change.
Departments
From the Editors
From the Editors
July/August 2009
"There is bleakness all around us. There is also extraordinary opportunity to remake the world."
Media & The Arts
Those Who Hide Too Well Away
by James Guida
A new planet lies at the bottom of the sea. An essay-review of Photographs of The Deep, by Claire Nouvian.
Sacred & Mundane
Sacred & Mundane
This regular department contains, as usual, several short features: Robert Michael Pyle on how nature is disappearing from the dictionary; Cheryl Daigle contemplates arcade games that involve shooting deer and other creatures; Katrina Farmer on a fish pedicure; a look at some artwork on water; and other short pieces.
Point of View
A Nation of Addicts
by Franklin Kalinowski
Democracy wasn't built for a culture addicted to oil.
Making Other Arrangements
Making Other Arrangements
by Orion Readers
In this regular feature about how people are responding to climate change and peak oil, Ginger Strand profiles a small hydro-powered local radio station, and Leni Fried writes about a rural community center / groceries sustainability efforts.
Reviews
Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness & Corvus: A Life with Birds
Tide, Feather, Snow
Brush Cat
An American Gospel
An Inside Passage
Poetry
Leaves by Afaa Michael Weaver
The Defenders by Wendell Berry
RSVP by Allen Braden
Earthworms by Katrina Vandenberg
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