March/April 2011
Features
Feature
Mind Games
by Sandra Steingraber
If neurotoxicants in the environment were making us less smart, would we notice? And if we did, would we stop putting them on our food and in our air?
Feature
Desiccated Dreams
Photography, Text, and Audio Slide Show by Matt Black
As an unsustainable agricultural system unravels in California's Central Valley, many people's lives hang in the balance.
Feature
A Pipeline Runs Through It
by William L. Fox
An intimate encounter with the Trans-Alaska Pipeline—from mile 800 to mile 0.
Feature
How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time
by Alex Johnson
Celebrating diversity is a lot more fun than worrying about where to take a leak.
Feature
Snow
by Linda Hogan
Ice, darkness, and a lonesome, kerosene-lit cabin in the woods are fertile ground for thoughts to bloom.
Web extra: Linda Hogan reads "Snow" aloud.
Feature
The Asterisk Company
by Alberto Álvaro Ríos
An elemental life, constructed piece by piece out of starred items in the pages of a journal.
Web Extra: The author reads The Asterisk Company aloud.
Feature
Primordial
Photographs by Victoria Ryan
Portfolio: In these mist-shrouded landscapes, one can almost feel an earlier time.
Columns
Small Change
Irony by the Sea
by Bill McKibben
Glitzy resorts and seaside Mayan ruins cast an air of doubt on anything hopeful coming out of COP16.
Upping the Stakes
The Age of Ooops
by Derrick Jensen
What would corporate responsibility look like if it were actually enforced?
Departments
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
In this department of the magazine, we offer a space for people to exercise their sixth sense and tell us about their place, their connection to it, its history and future and imaginary life, in words and pictures. It's an ongoing web feature as well. In this issue: Susan Starbird on Petaluma River, California; Katy Brandenburg on Moab, Utah; Jamariss Rhodes on Liberta, Antigua; and Eleanor Jones on Duluth, Minnesota.
Media & The Arts
Apocalypse Pow!
by Danica Novgorodoff
Essay/review: the graphic novel takes on the environment—with inventiveness and a strong sense of foreboding.
Coda
I Do Not Heart Trees
by Mary Rose O'Reilly
"I am not a tree-hugger of popular environmental mythology: I find forests creepy...."
Reviews
Moral Ground: Ethical Action for a Planet in Peril, Edited by Kathleen Dean Moore and Michael P. Nelson
Mink River, by Brian Doyle
When a Billion Chinese Jump, by Jonathan Watts
Beautiful Country, by Robert Wrigley
Wasting Libby, by Andrea Peacock
Poetry
Leeks, by Abbot Cutler
The Dawn of Time, by Catherine Carter
Black Dog, by Amber Flora Thomas
Coastal Nevada Zoo and Animal Studies Program, by Sarah Lindsay
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