January/February 2008
Features
Feature
Weeder
Photos and text by Jon Edwards
A decades-long working relationship with the slippery rocks of the Maine coast.
Feature
Saving Seals
by Brenda Peterson Illustration by Michael McCurdy
Two friends keep watch over a baby seal hauled up on a beach. Both are compelled by a love of this world, though one is seduced by thoughts of the next.
Feature
Healing Sculpture
by Daniel McCormick
Creekside creations give nature a boost, then slowly disappear.
Feature
Stopping Coal in Its Tracks
by Ted Nace Illustrations by Linda Zacks
Loosely affliiated, steadfast activists are drawing a firm line against new coal-fired power plants—and holding it.
Feature
Serenading Belugas in the White Sea
by David Rothenberg
Photographs by Anna Koivisto
A clarinetist ventures forth to make music with the white whales of the White Sea
Feature
Send in the Clowns
by Mark Svenvold
The latest North American attempt at utopia is a fantastical, two-wheeled enterprise headed nowhere in particular.
Feature
If Nature Had Rights
by Cormac Cullinan Drawings by Amy Falstrom
In a different kind of justice system, a lawyer might advocate on behalf of an aardvaark, or a river, or our atmosphere.
Feature
The Nature of Walls
by Jon Piasecki
Wherever people live, they build walls. What the walls do for them, and to them, is less apparent.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
The Fall of a Sparrow
by Sandra Steingraber
Notes on a ubiquitous avian neighbor and sometime friend.
From the Faraway Nearby
Our Storied Future
by Rebecca Solnit
Eschew dichotomies and embrace the confluences that make life worth living, and dying for.
The Tangled Bank
Overseer of Butterflies
by Robert Michael Pyle
Why not allow your alter ego its own occupation? The benefits, if not monetary, may be many.
Departments
From the Editors
From the Editors (Jan/Feb 2008)
(unsigned)
The environmental/green movement is in need of some fresh language to help establish a moral framework.
Sacred & Mundane
Sex, Wives, and Climate Change
by Amy L. Seidl
Kathryn Blume’s one-woman show "The Boycott" addresses climate change.
Point of View
Disappearing Animal Migrations
by David S. Wilcove
The world's greatest migrations are fading before our unseeing eyes.
Making Other Arrangements
Connecting Cow to Consumer
by David Givens, Greensburg, Kentucky
The work of Green River Cattle Company enables consumers to trust the source of their food.
Making Other Arrangements
A Sun-Powered Campus
by Lise Goddard, Los Olivos, California
A middle-school leads the way in energy conservation
Making Other Arrangements
In Lieu of More Stuff
by Susan Donohoe, Dedham, Massachusetts
Consciously consuming less...
Reviews
The Cats of Mirikitani A film by Linda Hattendorf
Strange as This Weather Has Been by Ann Pancake
Break Through by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger
Thought to Exist in the Wild Text by Derrick Jensen
Photographs by Karen Tweedy-Holmes
Still to Mow by Maxine Kumin
The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner Edited by Page Stegner
Poetry
Evening Hieroglyph by Li-Young Lee
Northern Lights by William Gilson
The Supple Deer by Jane Hirshfield
January Light by John Landretti
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