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Photographs by Neil Ever Osborne Published in the May/June 2013 issue of Orion magazine Para leer en Español, mire la página abajo. ALTHOUGH GREEN SEA TURTLES have inhabited the Pacific coast of Mexico for millions of years, for the past few decades these ancient mariners (known local...
Hypocrisy redefined for the age of warming By Bill McKibben Published in the March/April 2013 issue of Orion magazine THE LIST OF REASONS for not acting on climate change is long and ever-shifting. First it was “there’s no problem”; then it was “the problem’s so large there’s no hope....
Climate deniers and the cycle of abuse By Derrick Jensen Published in the March/April 2013 issue of Orion magazine OCTOBER 2012 was the 323rd consecutive month for which the global temperature was above average. The odds of this happening randomly are literally astronomical: one in te...
On the Art of Climate Change Communication March 05, 2013, by M. Sanjayan Can people who care about the planet’s changing climate find ways to talk about the crisis that get beyond numbers and politics? Such was the topic of Orion’s most recent live web event, “The Crisis of Climate C...
Kareiva’s ideas are a good place to start in understanding the neo-environmentalists. He is an outspoken former conservationist who now believes that most of what the greens think they know is wrong. Nature, he says, is more resilient than fragile; science proves it. “Humans degrade a...
November 09, 2012, by Orion staff What do we lose when we lose a view of the stars? Photographer Ian Cheney and his brother, Colin, explore our changing experience of night in their portfolio of images and poems published in the September/October 2012 issue of Orion, “I Should Learn t...
George, a calm octopus, opened the boxes methodically. The impetuous Gwenevere squeezed the second-largest box so hard she broke it, leaving a hole two inches wide. Truman, Murphy said, was “an opportunist.” One day, inside the smaller of the two boxes, Murphy put two crabs, who start...
I didn’t object to this because I thought that environmentalism should occupy the right rather than the left wing, or because I was right-wing myself, which I wasn’t (these days I tend to consider the entire bird with a kind of frustrated detachment). And I understood that there was a...
