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THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
Designer Genes
by BILL McKIBBEN
 Is there a downside to genetic engineering's offers to improve our offspring? Unless we think it through now, it's going to happen whether we like it or not, changing forever what it means to be human.
Baghdad Café
Photographs and text by JASON FLORIO
 The literati of Iraq's capital have been gathering in the Sh'ah Bander coffee shop for decades. Although they haven't had access to new books for twelve years, they continue to share ideas about poetry, art, and the issues of the day, trying to hold on to normalcy in a time of chaos.
The Riddle of the
Apostle Islands
by WILLIAM CRONON
When does a landscape tell a lie? When it is stripped of its human stories -- "nonconforming" structures such as old roads, buildings, and farm fields -- in order to be considered wilderness.
ART OF LIVING
Afterlife
by FREEMAN HOUSE
Images of decaying salmon and intimations of mortality prepare this fisherman to eventually claim his place in the food chain.
Destiny's Flow
Paintings by JAMES D. BUTLER
Text by PETER STIGLIN
The Mississippi River has for centuries contained the many stories making up our ecological, cultural, and economic history. As an artist travels north to south today, he finds a new story -- one that may presage our future.
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GROUNDSWELL
Got Tape?
by BK LOREN
 A cherished piece of land galvanizes an uproariously disparate community against corporate interlopers.
Metamorphosis
by SHARMAN APT RUSSELL
In L.A., plans for a golf course yield to a butterfly sanctuary, and a former gang member performs miracles of restoration.
COLUMNS
From the Faraway Nearby
A Very Big Tent
by REBECCA SOLNIT
The recent peace marches in the United States seemed to have more to do with the war on democracy than with Iraq.
The Tangled Bank
Confessions of a Hophead
by ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE
Why the Brits, certain butterflies, and the microbrewing movement share a fondness for Humulus lupulus.
Realecology
The Farm Museum
by PETER SAUER
In the year 2076, the Farm Belt is a toxic wasteland, the nation's food industry has relocated overseas, and the last American farm is a museum relic.
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DEPARTMENTS
From the Editors
Contributors
Mailbox
Sacred & Mundane
Point of View
The Solace of Closed Spaces
by JANE HOLTZ KAY
A citified environmentalism may be all that can save us from a hardtop future bereft of green.
Blueprint for Change
Tracing a Plan
by KRISTEN GRUBBS
In Keene, New Hampshire, students are making headlines -- and writing the stories that go with them, about the people and places of their community.
Poetry by ROGER MITCHELL & AILSA KENNEDY STEINERTt
Poetry by CASSANDRA DICKSON
Health and the Environment
Ray of Light
by SADI RANSON-POLIZOTTI
Reviews
Orion Grassroots Network
Coda
How It Is
by BRIAN DOYLE
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