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THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

What Fundamentalists
Need for Their
Salvation
BY DAVID JAMES
DUNCAN
Let's stop this My God is better than your God stuff and start heeding the biblical call to stewardship and neighborly love.

Wolf Palette
TEXT BY RICK BASS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
JOEL SARTORE
Like the brush strokes of a master artist, returning wolves coax from the landscape colors we never knew were missing.

Rock Work
BY LAURA PRITCHETT
To preserve a High Plains ranch on the edge of suburban sprawl, it's necessary to sell it off, one rock at a time.

ART OF LIVING

Peas, Man
BY MATT
RASMUSSEN
Long after the grease is gone from every crease in your hands, certain summer jobs just stay with you.

Sacrificial Beauty
PAINTINGS BY JACQUELYN McBAIN
TEXT BY DONALD KUSPIT
The Old Masters' style turns post-modern in the hands of an artist who finds saints in flowers and evil all around.

GROUNDSWELL

Sister Medha
BY JACQUES LESLIE
In the struggle against megadams, Gandhian activism manifests both its power and its pathos.

Promised Land
BY STEPHEN HENDRICKS
Some places are inherently sacred in Lakota lore, but others can be made so—even places profaned by theft and murder.

COLUMNS

From the Faraway Nearby
The Asanas of Indifference
BY REBECCA SOLNIT
What manner of contortions do you submit yourself to in order to avoid the grim realities of a world of injustice?

Small Change
An Atom of Difference
BY BILL MCKIBBEN
Why activists might start feeling nostalgic about pollution?

The Tangled Bank
The High Price of Getting Hip
BY ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE
Some people are so clueless you can't help but envy them.

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editors

Contributors

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Sacred & Mundane

Point of View
The Right to Be Cold
BY SHEILA WATT-CLOUTIER
A lesson from the Arctic: global warming is about human rights.

Poetry BY VIRGIL SUÁREZ

Poetry BY J.D. WHITNEY

Health and the Environment
Nature Deficit
BY RICHARD LOUV
Could a widespread learning problem be treated by something as simple as a walk in the park?

Blueprint for Change
Salty Saviors
BY BRIAN HALWEIL
These community gardeners are growing shellfish, and harvesting hope for reviving a storied local economy.

Orion Grassroots Network
The Power of Brower
Spotlight: Living Rivers

Coda
Nature on Wheels
BY GARY WOCKNER

Orion Magazine Wins UIPA's Highest Award
After receiving three new Utne Independent Press Award nominations for 2004, Orion magazine took the top honor -- General Excellence. We are proud and grateful.