Orion’s picture editor, Jason Houston, recently accepted a position on the advisory board of the Blue Earth Alliance. Blue Earth works to raise awareness about endangered cultures, threatened environments, and social concerns through photography by supporting photographers on these long-term projects with a wide range of resources. Many of the most compelling picture essays in Orion have been by Blue Earth sponsored photographers, including Robert Semeniuk, John Trotter, Rebecca Norris Webb, David Maisel, and, most recently, the photographer/writer team Benjamin Drummond and Sara Steele. This exciting collaboration will help to strengthen Orion’s position as a great outlet for publishing long-term, in-depth and personal projects on how we live on the planet.