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May/June 2010

Features

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read article Eco City Dreaming

by David Oates

On the ways in which green building and affordable housing intersect -- or, more often, don't.

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read article Theses on Sustainability

by Eric Zencey

We all love it. Everyone says they want it. So we might want to get very clear on what it actually is.

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read article A Mind in the Water

by D. Graham Burnett

The shocking double life of the dolphin, featuring neuropsychologists, hippies, spies, and extraterrestrials.

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read article Underwater

Photographs by Karen Glaser

Slide show: what lurks above the waterline, as seen from below.

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Feature

Shut Up and Fish

by Marilyn Krysl

Romesh thinks he saves the world every day; Beatrice actually does.

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The Devil and the Mountain

Photographs and text by Jason Rothe

In Bolivia's silver heart, miners make a pact with an underworld god.

Columns

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Each Other—Where We Are

read article Shale Game

by Sandra Steingraber

Four ways of looking at a natural gas deposit.

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Outside In

The God Unbound

by Jay Griffiths

Freedom has been bent to dark purposes by those who claim to champion it the most.

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Upping the Stakes

read article High on Progress

by Derrick Jensen

Does the addiction serve the addict, or vice-versa?

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Departments

Sacred & Mundane

Sacred & Mundane

In this issue, our regular department includes "Food Webs 2.0" by Eric Wagner; "Sonic Cetacean Art" by David Rothenberg, and a short item about The Growth Assembly Project.

Media & The Arts

A Paved Paradise with Trees

by Ginger Strand

An unconventional museum -- the Tree Museum in the Bronx -- with live trees, audio placards, and a busy boulevard running right through its heart.

Coda

The Philo-Lilac

by Valerie Weaver-Zercher

Reviews

go to review Claiming Ground by Laura Bell
go to review Birdology by Sy Montgomery
go to review The Name of the Nearest River by Alex Taylor
go to review Notes on a Lost Flute by Kerry Hardy
go to review The Wayfinders by Wade Davis
go to review Eaarth by Bill McKibben

Poetry

go to poem The Fixt and Random Universe Is Seen to Move by Joe Wilkins
go to poem Landing by Linda Hogan
go to poem Who Has Need, I Stand with You by Alberto Ríos
go to poem Instead by Tony Hoagland