“Dreamlike Atmosphere,” by Beverly Rayner
Globe, peeled C-prints, shellac
13 x 10.5 x 10.5 inches
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July/August 2012
Features
Feature
Look, Don’t Touch
by David Sobel
Much of environmental education has become pedantic and rule-bound. Could it actually be turning kids away from nature? Web extra: author interview.
Feature
Revolutionary Plots
by Rebecca Solnit
Urban agriculture: upscale fetish or revolution in the making? It depends in part on what you hope to cultivate.
Feature
Chance Baptisms
By Chris Dombrowski, Art by Sandra Dal Poggetto
Featuring an unexpected dunk in a radiant river and other watery brushes with the earthly divine.
Feature
The Power to Heal
Photographs and text by Vance Gellert
A trained pharmacologist leaves the lab to photograph shamanistic rituals deep in the Amazon and Andes. Web extra: audio slide show.
Feature
Otherworldly Trees
Photographs by Beth Moon
An exotic island off the Horn of Africa is home to a rare assortment of astonishing trees.
Feature
Thirty-Year Plan
By Julia Alvarez, Charles Bowden, Ralph Nader, Helena Norberg-Hodge, M. Sanjayan
On the occasion of its thirtieth anniversary, Orion asked several writers and thinkers to ruminate on what humanity is going to need to build a better future.
Feature
Concrete Footing
by Kathleen Dean Moore, Photographs by Alfred Edelman
What appears solid and unchanging is as dynamic as evolution or the movement of the tides.
Feature
Tonto and the Undertaker
Tania James Art by Kristisu Sader
Fiction: Most of the time, the animals lay neatly by the side of the road, as if they’d had the courtesy to drag themselves there and then die.
Columns
Outside In
The Galileo Fallacy
By Jay Griffiths
The credibility that the media gives to climate change deniers is irresponsible—but more importantly, it’s a threat to democracy.
Small Change
A Matter of Degrees
by Bill McKibben
When you add up all the CO2 that would be generated from the reserves the fossil fuel industry is banking on burning, it’s a scary and immoral sum.
Upping the Stakes
Self-Evident Truths
by Derrick Jensen
A no-holds-barred diagnosis, and prescription, to match the urgency of our time.
Departments
From the Editors
From the Editors
In considering the next thirty years, and trying to envision a compelling and enduring future, Orion asked thirty writers, educators, activists, and scientists to describe some of the other qualities that will be needed if humanity is to discover a more peaceful and redemptive way of living. Web extra: editors out loud.
The Place Where You Live
The Place Where You Live
By Our Readers
In this issue: Sonja Hendersson on Stockholm, Sweden; Lauren Keller on New Windsor, Maryland; Gary Pace on Bodega Head, California.
Media & The Arts
American Myth-Busting
By Joe Wilkins
Long seen as a cinematic exercise in caricature and stereotyping, the western has finally come of age.
Coda
Passage
By Joy Harjo
Reviews
Local Dollars, Local Sense: A Community Resilience Guide,
by Michael Shuman; Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific
Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed; Killer on the Road: Violence
and the American Interstate (Discovering America), by Ginger
Strand; and others.
Poetry
Cherries, by Andrea Cohen
Massachusetts Audubon Chart No. 1, 1898, by Robert Cording
Chauvet, by Alison Hawthorne Deming
Roses, by Kathleen Jamie
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