May/June 2011
Features
Feature
The Dawn of the Homogenocene
by Charles C. Mann
The decidedly modern economic and ecological phenomenon known as globalization has some very deep roots. Web Audio Extra: Interview with the Author.
Feature
Without a Car
Photographs by Diane Meyer
Forsaking the automobile in the drive-thru City of Angels. Web extra: audio slide show, with interview and extra images.
Feature
Wisdom in the Wild
by J.B. MacKinnon
Is it smart to eat anything that might be older than your grandmother?
Plus two audio extras.
Feature
To the Rainforest Room
by Robin Hemley
If you like your cheese whizzed and your rainforests coated in polyurethane, there may be hope for you yet.
Feature
Forest Collections
Paintings by Madeline von Foerster
Luminous cabinets of curiosities curated from among the woods and wilds.
Feature
East of the West
A Short Story by Miroslav Penkov
A Balkan love affair nurtured yet thwarted by an impartial river. Web audio extra: interview with the author.
Feature
The Oracle
by Amy Leach
You don't need to visit Delphi for divinations -- just stare into the soul of a mushroom.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
When Cowboys Cry
by Sandra Steingraber
The fossil fuel-based economy is breaking hearts all over the fracking place.
Outside In
Stories Unsung
by Jay Griffiths
The world turns a deaf ear while songs of freedom are silenced in West Papua.
Upping the Stakes
To Live or Not to Live
by Derrick Jensen
Heroism in the age of environmental destruction is about averting tragedy, not presuming it.
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: Elizabeth Liew on Singapore; Lauren Markham on Berkeley, California; Tom Spencer on Austin, Texas; Bill Badrick on Portland, Oregon; and Jenna Garber's photo of Richmond, Virginia.
Media & The Arts
Ear-Opening
by Ginger Strand
If you thought electronic and environmental could not concurrently modify music, think again.
Coda
The Elkometer
by Brian Doyle
Reviews
Stone Upon Stone, by Wiesław Myśliwski, translated from the Polish by Bill Johnston
Consulting the Genius of the Place: An Ecological Approach to a New Agriculture, by Wes Jackson
Fruitlands: The Alcott Family and Their Search for Utopia, by Richard Francis
Swamplandia!, by Karen Russell
Hot: Living Through the Next Fifty Years on Earth, by Mark Hertsgaard
The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival, by John Vaillant
Earth Now: American Photographers and the Environment, by Katherine Ware
Poetry
Orchard, by Jennifer Barber
Maypole, by Lucia Perillo
Swifts Storming St. Catherine's Church, by Adam Zagajewski
The eye of the radio was red, and its round mouth was talking—, by Joe Wilkins
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