January/February 2012
Features
Feature
Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist
by Paul Kingsnorth
Once noble and redemptive, environmentalism has devolved into an engine of consumerism and a platform for partisanship.
Feature
What Love Looks Like
A conversation with Tim DeChristopher by Terry Tempest Williams
An activist hero incarcerated for his nonviolent civil disobedience discusses the seeds of resistance and the opportunities presented by a world in disrepair.
Feature
Draw Me a Tree
Photographs by Dan Shepherd
A photographic study that involves trees, people, and people’s drawings of trees. Slide show accompanies text.
Feature
Contents May Have Shifted
by Pam Houston
Somewhere between travel lust and travel nightmares, there exists a place where the luminous land outshines life’s latest letdowns. A short story.
Feature
Eleven Kinds of Sky
by Joe Wilkins
Whatever the rites of passage, a boyhood in Montana guarantees the presence of some sort of prominent sky.
Feature
Fallowed Lives
Photographs by Laura El-Tantawy
Portraits: devastating debts have caused a generation of Indian farmers to simply give up.
Feature
Dark Sharks and Light Rays
Photographs and text by Karen Glaser
The shifting moods of water as reflected on two creatures that swim through it.
Columns
Each Other—Where We Are
It's Alive!
by Sandra Steingraber
Just because it thrives far below the surface of the earth does not mean its expendable.
The Wastelander
Night Shift
by Luis Alberto Urrea
The brown trouts, Sno Balls, and stray cats lent a faux nature vibe to this home-away-from-home.
Upping the Stakes
Not in My Name
by Derrick Jensen
Selling sex to save the planet is just sick.
Departments
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
In this issue: Laura Kerr, on The Santa Rita Mountains, Arizona; Erika Pauli Bizzari, Orvieto, Italy; Stephen T. Berg, on Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; and Don Lyman, on the Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia.
Media & The Arts
Music of the Hemispheres
by Jay Griffiths
Björk's new album-project-app harmonizes technology and nature while transcending traditional media.
Coda
Long Returns
by Peter Friederici
"Take it as a deposit in the bank of long returns, or as an exchange in a drawn-out conversation we hold with the children of people who have not yet been born…"
Reviews
Reviews from this issue are not yet available online.
Poetry
Bell, by Cecily Parks
A Black Bird with Snow-Covered Red Hills, by Kateri Kosek
Transmission and Distribution, by Mark Svenvold
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