September/October 2009
Features
Feature
Sawdust Mountain
Photographs and text by Eirik Johnson
Salvaging a new reality in the diminished logging towns of the Pacific Northwest.
Feature
Beautiful Ruination
by Ginger Strand
A down-and-out steel town looks for a different future through embracing collapse and decay.
Feature
Walks around the World
by Tomas Espedal, Manik Datar, Homero Aridjis, Saİt Faİk Abasiyanik, and Yuri Rytkheu
A good walk is a conversation between the walker and the environment, and here we present five "walk" pieces in translation, fiction and nonfiction, by Tomas Espedal, Manik Datar, Homero Aridjis, Sait Faik Abasıyanık, and Yuri Rytkheu, published in collaboration with the online magazine for international literature Words without Borders.
Feature
The Air Aware
by David Abram
In which the author proposes an entirely new definition of what it means to be one with nature.
Feature
On Coming Back as a Buzzard
by Lia Purpura
The beautiful necessity of an appetite for all things.
Feature
Out West
by Joe Wilkins
Growing up in eastern Montana makes you hard -- and not necessarily in a good way.
Feature
Full Frontal Fridge: A Portfolio
Photographs by Mark Menjivar, Text by Jennifer Sahn
The portfolio offers an unexpectedly intimate look at one of the last links in the modern food chain.
Columns
Outside In
The Sound of One Trickster Clapping
by Jay Griffiths
How the world tells us its news depends on how we choose to listen.
Upping the Stakes
Side with the Living
by Derrick Jensen
Ice ages and asteroids are no excuse for falling out of love with nature.
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
Sacred and Mundane
In this regular department, some short takes:
Terra Brockman, "Corn Porn"
Brian Doyle, "How to Live in Your Car"
Catherine Schmitt, "The More Endangered the Better"
Erica Wetter, "When Plants Tweet"
Making Other Arrangements
Making Other Arrangements
by Orion readers
In this ongoing feature, Orion readers profile people and organizations that are "making other arrangements" in response to peak oil and the threats of climate change. In this issue:
"Project Sprout," profiled by Natalie Akers, Sarah Steadman, Sam Levin, and Ben Fish
"Urban Honey," by Michael S. Thompson
Media & The Arts
The New Old-Fashionism
by Erik Reece
Ruminating on Wild Blessings, a play whose script consists solely of Wendell Berry's poetry.
Coda
Acorn Bread
by Joni Tevis
"It is good to return to a familiar place and find something sowed with a generous hand."
Reviews
Summer World, by Bernd Heinrich
Cold, by Bill Streever
The Fallen Sky, by Christopher Cokinos
Sestets, by Charles Wright
Notes from No Man's Land, by Eula Biss
Farm City, & Coop, Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer is by Novella Carpenter.
Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs, and Parenting, is by Michael Perry.
Poetry
Advance, by Lisa Williams
Delicious Apocalypse, by Derek Sheffield
Gullwing, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
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