Photograph by Daniel Shea, "Bill Jones Camping on the Ohio"
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September/October 2011
Features
Feature
Speed Freaks
by Ginger Strand
Stalking the car of the future among the Budweiser-fueled crowds at Speed Week.
Audio extra: interview with Ginger Strand.
Feature
The Schools We Need
by Erik Reece
No democracy can thrive when its public education system is in ruins.
Feature
Nature and Nurture
Photographs and text by Rachel Barrett
Two communities, separated by gender and geography, leave differing imprints on the land.
With an audio slide show.
Feature
Evolve
by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus
Turning away from technology ignores thousands of years of evolution between humans and nature.
Feature
Ephemera Preserved
Artwork by Mayme Kratz
Portfolio: An artist seeking insight in detritus unveils the beauty in cycles and change.
Feature
Honeydew
by Edith Pearlman
Insects fascinated her, but her quest to become one interfered with her homework. A short story.
Feature
The Creature Beyond the Mountains
by Brian Doyle
The sturgeon, an ancient, bony bottom feeder, is both a relic and an exercise in wonder.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
Household Tips from Warrior Mom!
by Sandra Steingraber
On the human tendency to belittle big problems by asking petty questions.
Outside In
The Exile of the Arts
by Jay Griffiths
It is wrongheaded and soul-crushing to ask art to justify itself in economic terms.
Upping the Stakes
Imagine
by Derrick Jensen
The first step to living differently is accepting that it can be done.
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: Lucinda Faulkner Merritt, on Rum Island, Florida; Steve Edwards on Lincoln, Nebraska; and Candy Meacham, on Taft, California.
Coda
Useless Bay
by Blair Braverman
"Useless Bay, Washington—ten minutes across by motorboat, and so shallow that when the tide sweeps low…
Reviews
Oil on Water, by Helon Habila
The Nature Principle, by Richard Louv
The Chimps of Fauna Sanctuary, by Andrew Westoll
The Magnetic North: Notes from the Arctic Circle, by Sara Wheeler
Radial Symmetry, by Katherine Lawson
The Day After Tomorrow, by J Henry Fair
Poetry
A Great Divide, by C. J. Sage 
Wild Onion, by Janice N. Harrington
Gather, by Rose McLarney
Dream of the Milking-Cow, by Joseph Spece
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