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November/December 2009

Features

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Feature

read article Savage Disobedience

by Eric Wagner

Wayne Johnson killed a whale to make a point.

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read article Mind in the Forest

by Scott Russell Sanders

Very old trees can teach us some things about ourselves.

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read article The Clearing

by Alexi Zentner

A man, a mission, and a knowledgeable dog.

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read article One Block

Photographs and text by Dave Anderson

Can a neighborhood in New Orleans put itself back together?

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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.

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Contested Ground

by Charles Bowden
Photographs by Michael P. Berman

How history betrays reality, and power obscures everything under the sun.

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Condemned to Memory

Paintings and text by Matty Byloos

A photograph is only the beginning of remembering.

Columns

Each Other — Where We Are

read article Ecological Inheritance

by Sandra Steingraber

How we live can shape our descendants.

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Small Change

read article Take the Plunge

by Bill McKibben

Creative outbursts of activism are more than fun, they’re necessary.

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Upping the Stakes

read article Playing for Keeps

by Derrick Jensen

Would we listen to nature if our lives depended on it?

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Departments

Media & The Arts

read article Putting Things Back Together

by Rick Bass

Considering Wallace Stegner on the centennial of his birth.

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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

Coda

Speaking in Place

by Marissa Landrigan

Reviews

go to review A Paradise Built in Hell
go to review The Big Burn
go to review Naming Nature
go to review The Blue Plateau
go to review Heart of Dryness

Poetry

go to poem Bat by Cleopatra Mathis
go to poem Going There by Colleen J. McElroy
go to poem Winter Lemons by Alberto Ríos
go to poem Probably, Then by Christian Anton Gerard