Orion Magazine | Nature, Culture & Place
WEBOrion brings ideas, writers, photographers, and artists together, focused on nature, the environment, and culture, addressing environmental and societal issues.
Crowded Planet - Orion Magazine
WEBAug 29, 2013 · OVER THE COURSE of the past one hundred years, we humans have grown in population at a rate rarely seen outside of a petri dish. Alan Weisman, author of the best-selling The World Without Us, spent two years traveling to twenty nations to investigate what this population explosion means for our species as well as those we share the planet with — and, most importantly, what we can do about it.
Submission Guidelines - Orion Magazine
WEBOrion will accept story submissions or samples to keep on file. We also send out an email call for submissions each issue (just let me know you’d like to be added). The most important thing we can suggest is that you know Orion and consider how your work is appropriate for our pages. Orion is about exploring environmental and social issues ...
How to Queer Ecology: One Goose at a Time - Orion Magazine
WEBMar 24, 2011 · Henry Chandler Cowles called it ecology. It is the relation within the human and the natural and the god and the geese and the past, present, future, body-self-other. A queer ecology is a liberatory ecology. It is the acknowledgment of the numberless relations between all things alive, once alive, and alive once again.
Speaking of Nature - Orion Magazine
WEBMarch/April 2017. June 12, 2017. A CEMETERY SEEMED AN ODD PLACE to contemplate the boundaries of being. Sandwiched between the campus and the interstate, this old burial ground is our cherished slice of nearby nature where the long dead are silent companions to college students wandering the hilly paths beneath rewilding oaks.
Charles C. Mann - - Orion Magazine
WEBCharles C. Mann’s most recent books are 1491, which won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck Award for the best book of the year, and 1493, which is now out in paperback.A correspondent for The Atlantic, Science, and Wired, he has covered the intersection of science, technology, and commerce for many newspapers and magazines here and abroad, including BioScience, The Boston Globe ...
Taking Wildness in Hand: Rescuing Species - Orion Magazine
WEBJun 10, 2008 · Taking Wildness in Hand: Rescuing Species. While scientists debate how to help save species from a warming climate, others aren't willing to wait. By Michelle Nijhuis. June 10, 2008. TORREYA STATE PARK perches on the steep, sandy banks of the Apalachicola, where the river twists slowly through the Florida Panhandle toward the Gulf of …
Sixteen Poetry Recommendations for National Native American …
WEBNov 10, 2021 · Recommendations from Poet Friends: Felicia Zamora recommends:. Little Big Bully. by Heid Erdrich . The voices in Heid Edrich’s Little Big Bully (winner of the 2019 National Poetry Series) meticulously interrogate the origins of violence, the inceptions of bullies—from the learned cruelty of children (“little bullies scripted so early/ they make one big bully decree”), to the genocide ...
The Art of Soil: How One Scientist Uses Dirt to Make Art
WEBBy Karen Vaughan. June 15, 2022. As scientists around the world comb through the soil in search of the origins of the Anthropocene, our anniversary issue takes inspiration from people like Karen Vaughan, who finds truth in a peculiar marriage of art and geology. Vaughan is a scientist, paint maker, educator, mom, and artist.
When Suffering Goes Viral - Orion Magazine
WEBI knew already that this neighborhood—Kensington—and particularly the ten-block radius around Kensington and Allegheny, is, according to my local news site, Billy Penn, “the aortic valve of the region’s opioid crisis,” or, as described in a New York Times Magazine piece despised by many Philadelphians for its parachute journalism, “the largest open-air narcotics market for heroin ...
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