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THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT

Tracking Tar
BY WILLIAM L. FOX
Beneath the streets of LA, geology is dramatic, and more nuanced than Hollywood's most dazzling special effects make it out to be.

Making Other Arrangements
BY JAMES
HOWARD
KUNSTLER
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
DAVID MAISEL
Can we get over the car and get real about preparing for an oil-scarce future?

ART OF LIVING

Fictitious Landscapes
PAINTINGS AND TEXT BY PETER EDLUND
Remaking iconic images of America to reflect a changed world.

The Leadership Imperative
AN INTERVIEW WITH OREN LYONS, BY BARRY LOPEZ
The roots of democracy extend further back than is commonly acknowledged, to a time when leadership, spirituality, and ecology were deeply intertwined.

Whitefoot
BY WENDELL BERRY
In a parable for our time, spring floods launch a small creature on a great adventure.

The Bare Boughs of Winter Trees
BY ROGER PINCKNEY
A deathbed vigil, an unrepentant patriot, and nuclear madness call forth questions of faith.

GROUNDSWELL

Green Rage
BY MATT
RASMUSSEN
Are radical environmentalists wackos, terrorists, or prophets warning against environmental catastrophe?

A Rare Bird
PHOTOGRAPHS
AND TEXT BY JASON HOUSTON
An innovative strategy marries a U.S. conservation group with activists in a Nicaraguan rainforest.

COLUMNS

From the Faraway Nearby
Some Monsters Die Slowly
BY REBECCA SOLNIT
If we've outgrown electoral democracy, what comes next?

The Tangled Bank
The Territory of Tint
BY ROBERT MICHAEL PYLE
What constitutes a Kodak moment may range widely among humans, even wider among Fidos and fritillaries.

DEPARTMENTS

From the Editors

Contributors

Mailbox

Sacred & Mundane

Reviews

Point of View
The Limits of Ethical Capitalism
BY JEFF GOODELL
Doing good while doing well isn't necessarily doing enough.

Health and the Environment
Fahrenheit 59
BY AUDREY SCHULMAN
Can a child's fever point toward a prescription for our troubled planet?

Blueprint for Change
Homegrown Standards
BY ARI LEVAUX
"Organic" takes on new meaning as it returns to its local roots.

Orion Grassroots Network
Limestone Cowboy
Spotlight: Eastern Pennsylvania Coalition for Abandoned Mine Reclamation

Coda
Identity's Edge
BY ANDREA JONES

POEMS

First Freeze
BY JOHN CALDERAZZO

Parking Lot in Snow
BY LIA PURPURA

Endless Argument
BY BETSY SHOLL

Seed Savers
BY TALVIKKI ANSEL

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