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November/December 2009
Features
Feature
Mind in the Forest
by Scott Russell Sanders
Very old trees can teach us some things about ourselves.
Feature
One Block
Photographs and text by Dave Anderson
Can a neighborhood in New Orleans put itself back together?
Feature
Barley and Yaks
by Edward Hoagland
Lasting impressions from a jaunt across China, in the company of those who live in the culture’s shadows.
Feature
Contested Ground
by Charles Bowden
Photographs by Michael P. Berman
How history betrays reality, and power obscures everything under the sun.
Feature
Condemned to Memory
Paintings and text by Matty Byloos
A photograph is only the beginning of remembering.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
Ecological Inheritance
by Sandra Steingraber
How we live can shape our descendants.
Small Change
Take the Plunge
by Bill McKibben
Creative outbursts of activism are more than fun, they’re necessary.
Upping the Stakes
Playing for Keeps
by Derrick Jensen
Would we listen to nature if our lives depended on it?
Departments
Sacred & Mundane
Sacred & Mundane
In this regular department, some short takes:
"Vanilla Sound," by Ginger Strand
"Eating the Neighbors," by Riger Pinckney
Instructions on how to swinge a possum
"Nature Moves Back In," by Christian McNeil
Artist Bob Johnson's RiverCubes
"Charismatic Megapixels," by Emily Young
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:
"Sustainable Sovereignty," by James Treat, about the Wilson Indian Community
"Pools of Hope," by John Manuel, about water gardens
Media & The Arts
Putting Things Back Together
by Rick Bass
Considering Wallace Stegner on the centennial of his birth.
Coda
Speaking in Place
by Marissa Landrigan
Reviews
A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit
The Big Burn Timothy Egan
Naming Nature by Carol Kaesuk Yoon
The Blue Plateau by Mark Tredinnick
Heart of Dryness by James G. Workman
Poetry
Bat by Cleopatra Mathis
Winter Lemons by Alberto Ríos
Probably, Then by Christian Anton Gerard
Going There by Colleen J. McElroy
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