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Life versus the Machine
I WAS IN THE LOCAL PUB with my friend Mark. We meet every Tuesday night in this tiny village in the west of Ireland to drink Guinness and play chess. I Continue reading
Justice & Community
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Caretaking
Local economies are the foundation of democracy, sanity, and a healthy natural world. Wendell Berry and Helena Norberg-Hodge explain why. Continue reading
Lay of the Land
Trailblazers
We started playing Oregon Trail in earnest after the 2016 elections. Something about the dysentery, the cannibal-inducing privation, and the more than two thousand miles of travel across treacherous rivers and Continue reading
Lay of the Land
A Landscape History of Brexit
Some say the sea connects us, others that it divides us. Of course, both are true. I live on the south coast of England, close to the English Channel, or, as Continue reading
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Nine Questions for the Author: Krista Schlyer, “Sacrificial Land”
With the partial federal government shutdown reaching into its second month, we contacted journalist and photographer Krista Schlyer to learn more about the ecological realities along the US-Mexico border. In the Continue reading