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THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
Law of the Land
BY DAVID W. ORR
The founding fathers never conceived of the tyranny of industrial civilization over nature and the human body. Is the time ripe for a constitutional amendment to guarantee future generations a livable world?
Old Man No More
BY JANE HOLTZ KAY
You can find Old Man souvenirs on eBay and purchase t-shirts bearing his portrait, but the fall of this New Hampshire icon has inspired no public postmortem on our role in his demise.
Burying Miss Louise
BY ROGER PINCKNEY
In the old slave cemetery outside the new development's security gates, mourners on Daufuskie Island meet in a whirlwind of history, magic, and grief.
ART OF LIVING
Balancing Act
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JASON HOUSTON
Witness the dynamic work behind Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's whimsical depictions of Everyman's struggle to understand the world.
Leaving the Ice
BY WILLIAM L. FOX
A landscape at the outer verge of habitability intensifies the human desire to assert and celebrate human presence.
Illuminations
PAINTINGS BY BERNARD SICILIANO
A Brooklyn painter portrays the ever-changing chiaroscuro city outside his window.
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GROUNDSWELL
Profits of Place
BY JOSH HARKINSON
The future does not necessarily belong to Wal-Mart. One small-business network that is invigorating Main Street just might transform the global economy as well.
Get on the Bus
BY GARY WOCKNER
The author's quest for eco-coolness reveals that celebrity environmentalism isn't all it's cracked up to be.
COLUMNS
The Tangled Bank
The Chemistry Between Us
BY ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE
Animals long ago learned to turn chemicals to their advantage, as we have done more clumsily -- and with decidedly more mixed results.
Realecology
The Gentility Conservancy
BY PETER SAUER
A modern fable of conspiracy and cunning you'll never read anywhere else.
From the Faraway Nearby
Justice by Moonlight
BY REBECCA SOLNIT
No matter where you protest, some things don't change. That can be a pleasant surprise.
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DEPARTMENTS
From the Editors
Contributors
Mailbox
Sacred & Mundane
Point of View
Glimpse of a Fair Trade World
BY MARK RITCHIE
Why Cancún was a breakthrough for the WTO -- along with social justice and sustainable prosperity.
Blueprint for Change
Crafts of Community
BY MICHELLE NIJHUIS
In small border towns, socially isolated women spin and stitch their way to new possibilities.
Poetry BY JANE HIRSHFIELD
Poetry BYALLEN BRADEN
Health and the Environment
To Heal from Without
BY JESSICA M. SCULLY
Researchers are confirming what most of us know in our bones: nature, even in small doses, heals body and soul.
Reviews
Orion Grassroots Network
Coda
Snow in Tucson
BY JENNY FLYNN
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