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THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT
Faux Falls
BY GINGER STRAND
Niagara: archetype of nature's wild, untamable forces or artifact of landscape-level Botox?
The Perfect
Predator
BY SONIA SHAH
A mosquito, a parasite, and the misguided ethos that allowed both to prosper.
ART OF LIVING
Roadkill
BY TRISH CARNEY
Restoring dignity to those who pay the ultimate price for car culture.
Sitting Pretty
BY NICOLE
McCLELLAND
Will true love survive a composting toilet and other unknowable but potentially devastating sacrifices?
Between Forests
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JITKA HANZLOVÁ
TEXT BY JOHN BERGER
A Czech photographer captures an unusual sense of time in her native forest.
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GROUNDSWELL
A SPECIAL STORY PACKAGE ON
COAL BED METHANE
A Quirk in the Law
BY WILLIAM DEBUYS
This land was their land—until the gas wells went in.
Voices from the Gas Fields
BY REBECCA CLARREN
Meet the latest victims of the non-negotiable American way of life.
The Coalition That Could
BY REBECCA CLARREN
The rest of the West watches as New Mexicans take on the gas drillers.
COLUMNS
From the Faraway Nearby
More Perfect Unions
BY REBECCA SOLNIT
If we've outgrown electoral democracy, what comes next?
Small Change
A Last Best Chance for Baby Boomers
BY BILL McKIBBEN
For those who talk about wanting to make a difference, it's a perfect time to translate talk into action.
The Tangled Bank
The Great Indoors
BY ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE
Adventure travel without the rain gear or the bugs—and what will they think of next?
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DEPARTMENTS
From the Editors
Contributors
Mailbox
Sacred & Mundane
Reviews
Point of View
The Righteousness Fix
BY ROGET LOCKARD
An addiction worse than oil, and manufactured much closer to home.
Health and the Environment
The Germs of Life
BY LYNN MARGULIS and EMILY CASE
The war on bacteria reflects a failure to understand our shared origins—and ongoing interdependence.
Blueprint for Change
Replanting People
BY THOMAS ULRICH
A strawberry field of dreams yields organic fruit and a fair deal for workers.
Orion Grassroots Network
When Green Is Brown
Spotlight: Center for Environmental Research at Hornsby Bend
Coda
Feeling Darkness
BY BARON WORMSER
POEMS
Instar
BY LISA OLSTEIN
Tyrrhenian Sea
BY ALICE JONES
Solstice
BY LANCE LARSEN
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