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THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Slum Ecology
BY MIKE DAVIS
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
SEBASTIAO
SALGÃDO
A field guide to how the "other half" lives, replete with earthquakes, floods, and economic policies likely to expand the number of people living in squalor.

To the Lama
BY ANDREW MEIER
A self-styled shaman in the Russian Arctic conjures an improbable, magical refuge for an endangered people.

Love Song of the Agave
TEXT AND
PHOTOOGRAPHS
BY DOUGLAS
MENUEZ
Best to savor the tequila slowly, and ponder the elements of place and culture present within.

ART OF LIVING

Learning to Surf
BY DAVID GESSNER
An ancient bird helps an uprooted human find his way in a new place.

The Weavers of Elelloang
BY SIIRI MORLEY
In Lesotho, a business run by African women redefines the term "human resources."

GROUNDSWELL

Some Like It Hot, Some Like It Culled
BY PETER FRIEDERICI
New ideas about fire, jobs, and timber find their footing amid ponderosa pines.

The Right Side of the Law
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
CHRISTOPHER
LAMARCA
To protect and serve: is there a nobler mission than that of a forest defender?

National Defense
BY KATHLEEN DEAN MOORE
Civil disobedience is as much about love as it is about law.

COLUMNS

From the Faraway Nearby
Never Mind Nature
BY REBECCA SOLNIT
Has the "N" word diverted our thinking from things of far bigger consequence?

The Tangled Bank
Hanky Panky
BY ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE
Some redemptive thoughts for those suffering from a superfluity of snot.

Small Change
Pie in the Sky
BY BILL MCKIBBEN
Please find in your seat-back pocket a survey of what the world really never needed and probably never will.
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Sacred & Mundane

Point of View
The Right Place, The Right Time
BY REBECCA KNEALE GOULD
Our hallowed sense of place is missing something basic.

Health and the Environment
Womb Ecology
BY ERIN MIDDLEWOOD
A mother-to-be can only do so much to protect her child from the world outside the womb.

Blueprint for Change
Small Town Flavor
BY ARION THIBOUMERY
Untangling a Midwestern paradox—so much agriculture, so little food.

Orion Grassroots Network
Spotlight: Literacy for Environmental Justice

Coda
Lilacs
BY MIKE MADISON

POEMS

Hail
BY GARY L. LARK

Snow Moon Hunger Moon
BY JODY GLADDING

Possum
BY JACQUELINE KOLOSOV

Come, Aristotle

BY MAXINE KUMIN