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January/February 2008

read article The Nature of Walls

by John Piasecki

Wherever people live, they build walls. What the walls do for them, and to them, is less apparent.

read article 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

read article 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.

read article Weeder

Photos and text by Jon Edwards

A decades-long working relationship with the slippery rocks of the Maine coast.

read article 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.

read article Healing Sculpture

by Daniel McCormick

Creekside creations give nature a boost, then slowly disappear.

read article 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.

read article Send in the Clowns

by Mark Svenvold

The latest North American attempt at utopia is a fantastical, two-wheeled enterprise headed nowhere in particular.

read article From the Editors (Jan/Feb 2008)

(unsigned)

The environmental/green movement is in need of some fresh language to help establish a moral framework.

read article Adopt a Raptor?

by Melissa Hart

The Cascade Raptor Center's adopt-a-bird program

read article Sex, Wives, and Climate Change

by Amy L. Seidl

Kathryn Blume’s one-woman show "The Boycott" addresses climate change.

read article Disappearing Animal Migrations

by David S. Wilcove

The world's greatest migrations are fading before our unseeing eyes.

read article Of Blood and Bone

by Joe Wilkins

The cycle of birth and hard life and death

read article Our Storied Future

by Rebecca Solnit

Eschew dichotomies and embrace the confluences that make life worth living, and dying for.

read article Overseer of Butterflies

by Robert Michael Pyle

Why not allow your alter ego its own occupation? The benefits, if not monetary, may be many.

read article 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.

read article A Sun-Powered Campus

by Lise Goddard, Los Olivos, California

A middle-school leads the way in energy conservation

read article In Lieu of More Stuff

by Susan Donohoe, Dedham, Massachusetts

Consciously consuming less...

read article The Fall of a Sparrow

by Sandra Steingraber

Notes on a ubiquitous avian neighbor and sometime friend.

Poetry

Evening Hieroglyph by Li-Young Lee
go to poem Northern Lights by William Gilson
go to poem The Supple Deer by Jane Hirshfield
go to poem January Light by John Landretti